Howdy, writers!
In today's blog post I write about the opening line of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and I intend to drag us all through a weeklong discussion of Romantic-gothic novels.
Just kidding! I was kind of going to do that, but then I decided: I'd rather see the opening line to your book or story. And so would your fellow WriteByNighters.
Do you have your own Great Beginning that you’d like to share with us and our readers, a particularly interesting or creative or funny or vivid opening line to a book or a story?
It can be from something you’ve already published or from something you wrote this morning. We don’t care, as long as it’s the very first line.
Type it out or paste it into the comments section of today's post, along with whatever info (if any) you think we need to have. And don't forget to mark "notify" to receive email alerts
whenever someone replies.
Because that's Part 2: While you're there, why not leave a response to a fellow writer's Great Beginning? Does a particular opening line make you want to read the second line, and
more? Why?
As a writer yourself, you know how important some occasional validation can be.
Maybe the line you're responding to is from a finished work, and you actually *can* read more! Or maybe it's from a WIP, and your kind comment will give that writer an extra boost when he or she sits down to write today.
There are far worse ways to spend a few minutes than encouraging fellow writers and being encouraged by them in turn.
Mary Shelley famously conceived of Frankenstein in a communally creative setting. What might you conceive in ours?
