It comes when you want to sleep but your brain is randomly coming up with the best sentence ever and then you can't sleep because your so focused on your book
The number of times that I take my phone in my hand in the middle of the night just to write those sentences is hazardous. If I don’t get them down right then I would forget by morning. 🥹😭
Here’s a first line I wrote that I’m actually happy with- “I always thought moving to mars was a stupid idea, but stupid things become more desirable when you're desperate.”
hey!! do you mind if i use something similar for my opening sentence of a book i’m writing? it’s not a sci fi or about mars, but it would be rlly helpful :) tysm! 💗💗
@@heyitsania1683don't read anything just write, you can edit everything later, the first draft of everything is shit, if you want your first draft to be good you're never going to finish it. Finish it as fast as possible so you get to the second draft quickly, and the second draft is where you can actually start asking it to be good
advice!! just put [opening sentence] and keep going! it’s all about the momentum when you’re writing your first draft. once you’re ready, you go back to your brackets and edit them to actually say what you want :)
LITERALLY THIS IS REAL ADVICE when I was writing a fanfic a while back I was having a tough time ending the story perfectly but I also felt like I had a deadline so instead of writing the in-between scenes I wrote the best scenes and then just touched it up when re-reading and editing the chapter. Works like a charm every time!
Okay so I started writing my book over the quarantine after I had a dream about floating space koi fish. No I was not high, I don’t do drugs or drink I’m 16 years old and religious. But I ended up writing a 270 pg sci fi novel in the span of 8 months. I haven’t got it published and I probably won’t, but I’m very proud of it and someday I might edit it again and submit it. Who knows
that sounds like an amazing idea for the end/beginning of the book, if it’s ever published. “i wasn’t high, drunk, or delusional. it started with a dream.”
Meanwhile Rick Riordan: "Yea, i know. You guys are going to read about how i died in agony and you're going to be like, "WOW that sounds cool Magnus! Can i die in agony too?"
As a learning writer, I’ve learned by several writers, telling me that when writing for first draft of a book-or even the first sentence…NEVER delete what you write, just keep on writing until you get all the way to the very end. That’s what revisions are for at the end. You write whatever you are thinking about, and then when you reach then end, that’s where you can do the revisions and all of the finalizing stuff. Never correct something while in the middle of writing: because that will only disturb the flow of your writing, thus, only making it much more harder to get back to where you left off.
Thats true but my mind cant focus on continuing the book when I have write something i dont like. It will just keep distracting me and I will be thinking what to change the first sentence to😢
I've been reworking chapters 1-6 of my novel (currently has about 40 total) for DAYS instead of progressing the story lol. Each Time I start from the beginning, I find a new plot point to work in or foreshadow, and a different way to formulate something or create depth..
In the shower i came up with the best intro ever to the story i was working on but the moment i stepped out of the shower i immediately forgot like 80% of what i imagined
I’ve been on the New York Times best seller list several times. Let me give you a bit of advice, always start your book with, “Once upon a time.” And end it with, “And then he/she woke up from a dream.”
I really want to be an author/illustrator when I grow up. I have thought of many ideas in my head, I’m really good at grammar for my age, and I am great at writing and drawing :)
The start is so difficult to write because it's the first chapter that has to catch the reader or at least it's like that for me when I read a book lol
This is so relatable 😭 I have been making a paragraph for HOURS and just didn't like it and deleted the whole thing- I HAVE TOO MANY IDEAS IDK WHAT TO START. BUT WHEN ITS GRAMMAR, PERSUASION, BETTER WORDS. I COULDN'T 😭😭😭
Here’s another first sentence that I wrote, “Something everyone has to learn is that things can always get worse, no matter who you are, or how much you hate it. You just have to come to terms with it.”
Me: I'm a writer with multiple plays, published poems, several award placements Also me: spent the last hour typing the words "the expansive expressway" and backspacing because I don't know what comes next 😂
Same but for the first sentence and the first chapter. I write and think nope, and I write the chapter again and think nope. It took forever for me to get my book started
hi! here's mine: "my family's been dead for as long as I can remember." (it's metaphorical and reveals a splash of internal conflict right at the start to get the reader hooked, hope you like it!) ❤
Here is a good start for your book "The cold winter air felt like it was humming outside my window" "The clock hit midnight it felt like ive been up for hours" "As i walked into the woods i heard a crunch of a stick..." "The grass was beatiful the birds were sworming above the sky" Hope this helps
Whenever I start a new chapter I always make sure to write “look I wrote something the chapter had started” before writing anything. And whenever I leave off I summarize what the next thing I need to happen is so when I come back I never have to deal with blank page syndrome.
"I got a feeling of nostalgia as I crept through my old house." -Vanished A book im writing, about a girl who erases everyone off the earth besides for herself and has been trying for 2 years to bring everyone back, must work even harder to bring everyone back as she finds a suprise on her journey. Is she really the only one left?
Whenever I start writing a book I always start it with some sort of flash back so that I have people hooked on the book than i write the rest for example I’m writing a book and the first sentence is, “What have I done…” Jamie said as cold tears fell down there face. VOILA!
I once did 18 ½ single spaced pages, stopped in the middle of 19, went over it, again , didn't like how it was going, and then select all and then Space Bar-ed it all into oblivion. I use the Space Bar because it sounds like a great name for a Bar for writers, or Words, and if you're gonna go, might as well have a drink, and so I serve my friends a drink into the unknown. The Story went better with a more thrill behind it, which is what I wanted, probably because I had just deleted a couple of hours of work lol. The Story was better for it, it's what the Muses wanted and so I had to comply. Thanks for reading, and never be afraid to start over, that wasn't the first time I did that, and 19 ½ wasn't the longest either. You'll know it because nothing in it feels right, and no amount of editing will help, no copy and paste will save it. It's good to destroy your work sometimes, it brings out and produces better work and in a strange way the first draft is an amalgamation of a first and second draft existing as one. Okay, all be well, and be safe!
Oh my gosh this is so me. I’ve been struggling to get my first sentence right so I just wrote whatever came to me and now I’m rewriting the whole book to make it better. Copying it onto a new doc and I really like my new first sentence but this short is so true 😂
Honestly I find worrying about the opening line can really get ya! Instead just write, I mean life's a rough draft. Better to have something then to have nothing.
What I’ve read that makes the book perfect: The distance between me and the cherry tree is the book! Book starts like: All children are scared of the dark Ends like: I’m gonna write a book. It’s gonna start like: All children are scared of the dark
Tips: start with a conversation start by saying how the mc was feeling to create a tension, don’t use the mcs name: only pronouns start with a character desc start with a setting desc start with what the mc was doing start with what changed the mcs life start with describing the character in 1 word
For my prologue it’s: Lucille: We were going to have to be the ones to get the Scroll of Secrets back. But my actual first sentence of the first chapter is: I woke up on a school bus leaning on somebody. Where was I?
As she asked, *"How much has your journey changed you?"* My response was, *"More then I can count but what I learned from that long journey, from the past to the present, is that life could change if you end up choosing the right path, the right perspective."* What path are you willing to take in life..?
Right.. And it has to catch the readers Attention for the book. If its bring someone will not be interested to read it. I started an unpublished book with something like "how did we get here?" and then described the situation the main character was in
I don’t write books but like I know what ur saying so a good technique I use is that I put all my ideas down on a list for future use if that helps 😊😊😊
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THIS- it is so easy to write the ending (for me), but the beginning is so hard. I am working on one of my novels ( which is a trilogy) and I just had to start it off with a nightmare. (It does fit with the character and her storyline.) ❤️❤️❤️ Edit: The name of the book is why I started the chapter off with a nightmare. She is a seer and the name of the first book is “Home to Nightmares.” (It does have an official name, but I won’t be giving that out just yet. ❤)
I'm working on a book but i don't know if people will read it so I'm gonna tell you like a summary ig? Tell me if you would read it! This teenage boy ash and his best friend Luna live in a world with constant crimes but lately there's been a mass murderer on the loose. Ash is faced with a big conflict he can't resolve alone when this other guy august shows up out of nowhere and is faced with the same conflict so they decide to work together. But Luna shows up with suspicions against August while August has suspicions against her. Who does ash trust? Will he ever resolve his conflict? Please let me know if this sounds interesting! Idk if i should keep working on it or not
This is my first book please tell me if u like it❤❤ (Only the first few lines bc it too long😅😅) “I twisted my brain inside out that morning trying to figure out what my mother had meant, staring at her grave I knew that I wouldn’t be able to ask her anytime soon, my eyes became glossy as I remembered the night I found out my own mother had been murdered. It’s been four years since Juliana, Remeriz had died and it’s been lingering ever since, it’s like no one forgot what happened. I clenched the hand of my boyfriend who was standing next to me, “Dylan?” I said closing my eyes and taking a deep breath, “yes my love?” He replied holding my hand tighter “I miss her.” I said as a single tear ran down my face “I know you do love.” He said pulling me into a side hug. It was early morning about 8:00 am and the fog was lingering around the graveyard. Who the hell murdered my mother, and why the hell did they do it. I couldn’t care, I just wanted to get back at them.”
Normally when I write, I start with a character saying something like: "Yo, bartender! 5 shots o’ whiskey. On the rocks. Straight up! Put it on my tab.” A woman of 24 shouted out. Prideful. The woman adjusted her black satin shirt whilst tying herself a messy bun. Her light-grey blazer hung on the back of her chair. The bar was relatively new, considering the old Gothic-style feel towards it and the soot-streaked walls. In perspective, imagine the Cologne Cathedral but, a bar rather than a cathedral. Whispers emerged from the rest of the customers. Yes, I this is the opening para to a book I'm writing:')
If I was ever going to write a book, like I’m planning on doing, I would write this: I had my head pressed against the window of the car, and I knew I should never speak again. After all I did it for love. As I sat in the cold jail cell, I felt numb. I knew I shouldn’t of spoken. (Please don’t steal this, because I’m thinking about making it into an actual book.)
TBh somebody will see this comment and steal it. Because many ppl are selfish I'd recommend changing to to say smth like (secret idea) then when you finish the book you can edit it back mby?
I just write a random sentence that somewhat relates to the current scene and then revisit at a later time and replace it. Like how I changed the first sentence of my current work-in-progress to “The world is in shambles. So is my mind.”
The best first lines come to me while I dont think about it. There is nothing that feels more forced than looking at a blank page while THINKING about what you do.
The most important part is to plan you're story characters and settings and what you're first sentace should be on a price of draft paper and see what sentace fits better (Use a new journal to plan you're story)
I made a book on an app. (NO I AM NOT PUBLISHING IT) it was about a cat who runs away from his owners and joins a group of stray city cats. It’s pretty cool.
Listen for me I find it easy to just do one line of dialogue to start off (I make fanfics for my friends tho) like one of them just started with “Sh!t.” And from there I had a good idea of what to do and I couldn’t stop writing
If your a writer here is a tip. Get a little notebook so when you do have ideas but your computer is flat or to far or if it’s night time write it down and then in the notebook and put it in your book when you get back to it 😊
GUYS IDK IF I SHOULD START WITH THE SETTING OR INTERNAL DIALOGUE HELP ME PICK 1: The village wore a quiet serenity, each breath visible in small clouds. 2: After living my life alone, waiting had become something I was accustomed to.
My favorite (sarcasm) is when you're on a roll pounding out this amazing story idea…stay up all night because you don't want to risk derailing the flood of ideas that's flowing like wildfire from your fingertips…only to finally grab a nap, wake up, reread what you've got and now hate every bit of it 😂
I understand completely! I start to write my story but then the sentence seems bad and then you have to find the perfect starting sentence because your story is based off of it.
It comes when you want to sleep but your brain is randomly coming up with the best sentence ever and then you can't sleep because your so focused on your book
The number of times that I take my phone in my hand in the middle of the night just to write those sentences is hazardous. If I don’t get them down right then I would forget by morning. 🥹😭
@@thepalettecreations5153 I should start doing that 🤩💅🏼👌
@@thepalettecreations5153 same
This be true .
That literally happened to me last night, I just thought of those and I knew to myself I have to jot them down
my best lines come at 3 am when i have insomnia
same
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Here’s a first line I wrote that I’m actually happy with-
“I always thought moving to mars was a stupid idea, but stupid things become more desirable when you're desperate.”
That is actually a good line and now am wondering what the book is about 😅
Thank you!
ooh i like that i don’t normally like science fiction which is what i’m guessing this is but this seems interesting!
hey!! do you mind if i use something similar for my opening sentence of a book i’m writing? it’s not a sci fi or about mars, but it would be rlly helpful :) tysm! 💗💗
That would be alright, let me know what you come up with!
and when you finally think you found it, only to read it later and delete it
Yass. I write it and think "this is the best first line in history." Then I read it the next day and think "this is the worst first line in history."
This is why i can't finish a single chapter
Lmao same
This is why you shouldn't read it until it's done
@@heyitsania1683don't read anything just write, you can edit everything later, the first draft of everything is shit, if you want your first draft to be good you're never going to finish it.
Finish it as fast as possible so you get to the second draft quickly, and the second draft is where you can actually start asking it to be good
'Look, I didn't want to be a half blood.'
Still brings me to tears.
WHAT I WAS THINKING OF THAT
yes
percy jackson is still one of my favorite book series even after so many years
Fr fr fr
advice!! just put [opening sentence] and keep going! it’s all about the momentum when you’re writing your first draft. once you’re ready, you go back to your brackets and edit them to actually say what you want :)
Thank you.
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LITERALLY THIS IS REAL ADVICE when I was writing a fanfic a while back I was having a tough time ending the story perfectly but I also felt like I had a deadline so instead of writing the in-between scenes I wrote the best scenes and then just touched it up when re-reading and editing the chapter. Works like a charm every time!
Thank you good advice ❤
THANK YOU ❤❤
Okay so I started writing my book over the quarantine after I had a dream about floating space koi fish. No I was not high, I don’t do drugs or drink I’m 16 years old and religious. But I ended up writing a 270 pg sci fi novel in the span of 8 months. I haven’t got it published and I probably won’t, but I’m very proud of it and someday I might edit it again and submit it. Who knows
that sounds like an amazing idea for the end/beginning of the book, if it’s ever published. “i wasn’t high, drunk, or delusional. it started with a dream.”
@@emmamilton_trust that’s a great idea! Maybe I’ll use that in a future novel. 🙂
@@oliviajenks2086 thank you! i can’t wait to read it. 💞💞💞
@@oliviajenks2086 dude you should ask my mom to edit it, she’s a copy editor and can finish books in a day.
That’s awesome dude!
I still haven’t written it. I’m working on it backwards 😂
Felt so hard 😂. Have you written anything since you posted this comment?
Meanwhile Rick Riordan:
"Yea, i know. You guys are going to read about how i died in agony and you're going to be like, "WOW that sounds cool Magnus! Can i die in agony too?"
Sarcasm is half the personality of his main characters when they're not fighting or at a near-deaty situation
My first line ended up being
“I live in Utopia, and it’s a living hell.”
Obsessed with this!!
I love that!
can I read this anywhere??
I’m the type to get good ideas when I can’t work on it, then when I work on it, I forget my idea-😅
As a learning writer, I’ve learned by several writers, telling me that when writing for first draft of a book-or even the first sentence…NEVER delete what you write, just keep on writing until you get all the way to the very end. That’s what revisions are for at the end. You write whatever you are thinking about, and then when you reach then end, that’s where you can do the revisions and all of the finalizing stuff. Never correct something while in the middle of writing: because that will only disturb the flow of your writing, thus, only making it much more harder to get back to where you left off.
Thats true but my mind cant focus on continuing the book when I have write something i dont like. It will just keep distracting me and I will be thinking what to change the first sentence to😢
I've been reworking chapters 1-6 of my novel (currently has about 40 total) for DAYS instead of progressing the story lol. Each Time I start from the beginning, I find a new plot point to work in or foreshadow, and a different way to formulate something or create depth..
Relatable it’s taking me 5 months to figure it out and I’m still confused as a baby beginner writer
I’m 10 and I literally have my opening statement of my first book😭😭
In the shower i came up with the best intro ever to the story i was working on but the moment i stepped out of the shower i immediately forgot like 80% of what i imagined
Rip
I’ve been on the New York Times best seller list several times. Let me give you a bit of advice, always start your book with, “Once upon a time.” And end it with, “And then he/she woke up from a dream.”
Once upon a time is a bit overused
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@@pokki7632sorry i didn't get it was a joke i have autism 💔💔
@Randomthings-hq1ci yeah lmao thats the joke
@@eternalyujisBruh what?
I really want to be an author/illustrator when I grow up. I have thought of many ideas in my head, I’m really good at grammar for my age, and I am great at writing and drawing :)
The start is so difficult to write because it's the first chapter that has to catch the reader or at least it's like that for me when I read a book lol
This is so relatable 😭 I have been making a paragraph for HOURS and just didn't like it and deleted the whole thing-
I HAVE TOO MANY IDEAS IDK WHAT TO START. BUT WHEN ITS GRAMMAR, PERSUASION, BETTER WORDS. I COULDN'T 😭😭😭
As a person who likes to write stories I can confirm writing at 12:00am to 3:00am you have the best quotes or storyline scenes😅
Here’s another first sentence that I wrote,
“Something everyone has to learn is that things can always get worse, no matter who you are, or how much you hate it. You just have to come to terms with it.”
The only satisfactory hook I wrote was: "Everyone knows you don't wake a sleeping teenager. Well, minus my mom."
It still isn't even my best work-
this man is so soothing
Me: I'm a writer with multiple plays, published poems, several award placements
Also me: spent the last hour typing the words "the expansive expressway" and backspacing because I don't know what comes next 😂
Same but for the first sentence and the first chapter. I write and think nope, and I write the chapter again and think nope. It took forever for me to get my book started
hi! here's mine:
"my family's been dead for as long as I can remember."
(it's metaphorical and reveals a splash of internal conflict right at the start to get the reader hooked, hope you like it!)
❤
Here is a good start for your book
"The cold winter air felt like it was humming outside my window"
"The clock hit midnight it felt like ive been up for hours"
"As i walked into the woods i heard a crunch of a stick..."
"The grass was beatiful the birds were sworming above the sky"
Hope this helps
Whenever I start a new chapter I always make sure to write “look I wrote something the chapter had started” before writing anything. And whenever I leave off I summarize what the next thing I need to happen is so when I come back I never have to deal with blank page syndrome.
“Look, I didn’t want to be a halfblood.” NEVER LETTING GO OF THAT UNCLE RICK
The hardest thing for me is choosing what my book will be about
HELP, THATS LITERALLY WHAT IM HERE FOR
"I got a feeling of nostalgia as I crept through my old house." -Vanished
A book im writing, about a girl who erases everyone off the earth besides for herself and has been trying for 2 years to bring everyone back, must work even harder to bring everyone back as she finds a suprise on her journey. Is she really the only one left?
That sounds so cool ❤
@@E_D2867 Thanks!
that sounds like its going to turn out really well. i hope it does
I love going straight to the point 😅
For me the first sentence in my book came easy it just flowed out of me onto the pages
Meanwhile, my first sentence: Cold.
I always start my books with the main character talking to somebody
I literally can’t relate more 😭
I have like 5 different drafts, and I think I finally found a beginning line I like!
Whenever I start writing a book I always start it with some sort of flash back so that I have people hooked on the book than i write the rest for example I’m writing a book and the first sentence is, “What have I done…” Jamie said as cold tears fell down there face. VOILA!
I once did 18 ½ single spaced pages, stopped in the middle of 19, went over it, again , didn't like how it was going, and then select all and then Space Bar-ed it all into oblivion.
I use the Space Bar because it sounds like a great name for a Bar for writers, or Words, and if you're gonna go, might as well have a drink, and so I serve my friends a drink into the unknown.
The Story went better with a more thrill behind it, which is what I wanted, probably because I had just deleted a couple of hours of work lol. The Story was better for it, it's what the Muses wanted and so I had to comply.
Thanks for reading, and never be afraid to start over, that wasn't the first time I did that, and 19 ½ wasn't the longest either. You'll know it because nothing in it feels right, and no amount of editing will help, no copy and paste will save it. It's good to destroy your work sometimes, it brings out and produces better work and in a strange way the first draft is an amalgamation of a first and second draft existing as one.
Okay, all be well, and be safe!
Fr. Im trying to write books so i can be an author my dream job so i can relate to this
My friend and I were watching things like this and 15 minutes ago wanted to write a book and this was literallyvus
This is the most relatable video i have ever seen 😂
i’m on the second draft and i’m still positive that the whole first section isn’t right but we move
why is this so correct bruh i will spend a whole day trying to find the perfect fit
Oh my gosh this is so me. I’ve been struggling to get my first sentence right so I just wrote whatever came to me and now I’m rewriting the whole book to make it better. Copying it onto a new doc and I really like my new first sentence but this short is so true 😂
My stories first start out as dreams and so I started every story with
“I once dreamed this” or “a memory” loll
Honestly I find worrying about the opening line can really get ya! Instead just write, I mean life's a rough draft. Better to have something then to have nothing.
This is so true like that’s the hardest step 😣
What I’ve read that makes the book perfect:
The distance between me and the cherry tree is the book!
Book starts like: All children are scared of the dark
Ends like: I’m gonna write a book. It’s gonna start like: All children are scared of the dark
That seems interesting. At the end of the book u decide to write a book and say some things about the book that are In The actually book ur writing
One time I was just showering and my mind began spouting a goated dialogue for my character
Yes!! And my best lines will come to me while I’m about to fall asleep 😂
Tips:
start with a conversation
start by saying how the mc was feeling
to create a tension, don’t use the mcs name: only pronouns
start with a character desc
start with a setting desc
start with what the mc was doing
start with what changed the mcs life
start with describing the character in 1 word
Mc: main character
Not mcdonalds😂
@@ElenaIosifidi Lol yes
I started writing my first book a few weeks ago 😭
The best lines when I was in elementary and was tasked with making a story:
" A long time ago... "
I can definetly relate to this.
This is me in the morning after making a whole story at night and spend all night working on it
For my prologue it’s:
Lucille: We were going to have to be the ones to get the Scroll of Secrets back.
But my actual first sentence of the first chapter is:
I woke up on a school bus leaning on somebody. Where was I?
As she asked, *"How much has your journey changed you?"* My response was, *"More then I can count but what I learned from that long journey, from the past to the present, is that life could change if you end up choosing the right path, the right perspective."* What path are you willing to take in life..?
The first sentence is SO important and you have to get it right because that starts the Whole plot of the story…
Right.. And it has to catch the readers Attention for the book. If its bring someone will not be interested to read it. I started an unpublished book with something like "how did we get here?" and then described the situation the main character was in
@@ElenaIosifidi I love that! Because it makes you want to know what happens next
Yes. I'm an author and I can't even describe how true this is.
I don’t write books but like I know what ur saying so a good technique I use is that I put all my ideas down on a list for future use if that helps 😊😊😊
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THIS- it is so easy to write the ending (for me), but the beginning is so hard. I am working on one of my novels ( which is a trilogy) and I just had to start it off with a nightmare. (It does fit with the character and her storyline.) ❤️❤️❤️
Edit: The name of the book is why I started the chapter off with a nightmare. She is a seer and the name of the first book is “Home to Nightmares.” (It does have an official name, but I won’t be giving that out just yet. ❤)
STOPPP YOURE TOO BRUTALLY HONEST😭😭😭
I'm working on a book but i don't know if people will read it so I'm gonna tell you like a summary ig? Tell me if you would read it!
This teenage boy ash and his best friend Luna live in a world with constant crimes but lately there's been a mass murderer on the loose. Ash is faced with a big conflict he can't resolve alone when this other guy august shows up out of nowhere and is faced with the same conflict so they decide to work together. But Luna shows up with suspicions against August while August has suspicions against her. Who does ash trust? Will he ever resolve his conflict?
Please let me know if this sounds interesting! Idk if i should keep working on it or not
Oh my goodness yes I love it already
As a small Wattpad author... I can confirm that it is like that while starting my wattpad book...
୨୧ it takes everything in me to not delete the whole thing 😭🫸୨୧
This is my first book please tell me if u like it❤❤
(Only the first few lines bc it too long😅😅)
“I twisted my brain inside out that morning trying to figure out what my mother had meant, staring at her grave I knew that I wouldn’t be able to ask her anytime soon, my eyes became glossy as I remembered the night I found out my own mother had been murdered. It’s been four years since Juliana, Remeriz had died and it’s been lingering ever since, it’s like no one forgot what happened. I clenched the hand of my boyfriend who was standing next to me, “Dylan?” I said closing my eyes and taking a deep breath, “yes my love?” He replied holding my hand tighter “I miss her.” I said as a single tear ran down my face “I know you do love.” He said pulling me into a side hug. It was early morning about 8:00 am and the fog was lingering around the graveyard. Who the hell murdered my mother, and why the hell did they do it. I couldn’t care, I just wanted to get back at them.”
This is why I start at the end.
Why is this relatable 😢😢😢
Leo was totally buzzing - Rick Riordian
I settled for: “A candles light illuminates a room."
Normally when I write, I start with a character saying something like:
"Yo, bartender! 5 shots o’ whiskey. On the rocks. Straight up! Put it on my tab.” A woman of 24 shouted out. Prideful. The woman adjusted her black satin shirt whilst tying herself a messy bun. Her light-grey blazer hung on the back of her chair. The bar was relatively new, considering the old Gothic-style feel towards it and the soot-streaked walls. In perspective, imagine the Cologne Cathedral but, a bar rather than a cathedral. Whispers emerged from the rest of the customers.
Yes, I this is the opening para to a book I'm writing:')
If I was ever going to write a book, like I’m planning on doing, I would write this:
I had my head pressed against the window of the car, and I knew I should never speak again. After all I did it for love.
As I sat in the cold jail cell, I felt numb. I knew I shouldn’t of spoken.
(Please don’t steal this, because I’m thinking about making it into an actual book.)
TBh somebody will see this comment and steal it. Because many ppl are selfish I'd recommend changing to to say smth like (secret idea) then when you finish the book you can edit it back mby?
stole it(jk)
I stole it😊 (just kidding i didnt)
I just write a random sentence that somewhat relates to the current scene and then revisit at a later time and replace it. Like how I changed the first sentence of my current work-in-progress to “The world is in shambles. So is my mind.”
The best first lines come to me while I dont think about it.
There is nothing that feels more forced than looking at a blank page while THINKING about what you do.
I just came up with the best starting sentence ever made
NO THIS IS LEGIT ME RN
The most important part is to plan you're story characters and settings and what you're first sentace should be on a price of draft paper and see what sentace fits better (Use a new journal to plan you're story)
The first sentence of the book I’m currently writing is “I was so excited.” 😂
I was starting to write a book and i searched on youtube, ideas for first sentence in a book.
When getting a good idea it’s either in the shower or in the middle of the night
Frrr, you have to make it catchy so that people read it aswell but also not being classical
bro this is me in every first "WORD" !!!!
I made a book on an app. (NO I AM NOT PUBLISHING IT) it was about a cat who runs away from his owners and joins a group of stray city cats. It’s pretty cool.
Listen for me I find it easy to just do one line of dialogue to start off (I make fanfics for my friends tho) like one of them just started with “Sh!t.” And from there I had a good idea of what to do and I couldn’t stop writing
If your a writer here is a tip.
Get a little notebook so when you do have ideas but your computer is flat or to far or if it’s night time write it down and then in the notebook and put it in your book when you get back to it 😊
GUYS IDK IF I SHOULD START WITH THE SETTING OR INTERNAL DIALOGUE HELP ME PICK
1: The village wore a quiet serenity, each breath visible in small clouds.
2: After living my life alone, waiting had become something I was accustomed to.
So when I was writing (I still am 😭😭) Unknown Echoes , The first sentence was my character introducing herself because it’s a diary!
I have a Google doc where every time my brain thinks of a prompt or sentence I quickly type it
That’s me at the moment, I’m planning on writing a book and I have it planned out I just can’t think of the first sentence 😭
Literally me every paragraph 😭
“What’s your biggest “what if?”” Is mine. Idk if it’s good but the last sentence of the book answers it
My favorite (sarcasm) is when you're on a roll pounding out this amazing story idea…stay up all night because you don't want to risk derailing the flood of ideas that's flowing like wildfire from your fingertips…only to finally grab a nap, wake up, reread what you've got and now hate every bit of it 😂
mine is “tonight is the first night the windwatchers have gone silent. Ever.”
It’s so true..😭🙏
Oh my god I can’t relate more-
I have the same glasses as you! And it is so difficult to think of how to start my book.
I understand completely! I start to write my story but then the sentence seems bad and then you have to find the perfect starting sentence because your story is based off of it.
Seriously though. I can’t start if that shit ain’t flames - gotta start strong imo . It can be motivating
“They held hands to the gate”
and you’ll never guess the context