Tuesday, October 6, 2009

opening lines

A good opener can be the difference between a great story people want to read and a ho-hum, maybe I'll get to it later feeling.  I don't know if I've quite gotten the hang of great opening lines, but here are some that have recently come to me.  Do any of these make you think, hmm...this could be an interesting read?

The slamming of the door reverberated down my spine and made me cringe.  Mom was home, and I was not in the mood to deal with her drama, not today.  

I lie.  That's what I do best.  Everyone looks at me and accepts what I say as though it were God-given truth, but the reality is, I don't know anything except how to lie.  Unfortunately, that wasn't going to help me now. 

“Sam, I can’t believe you’d have the audacity to come crawling back into this office after so unceremoniously quitting.”





1 comment:

  1. I like the first two; the third one doesn't do much for me but then, I am no longer involved with the working world as such.

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