Comments on: The Importance of Opening Lines http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/ Action packed paranormal romance Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:11:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Random Inspirations « A Field of Paper Flowers http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-366 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:05:23 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-366 [...] This is perhaps not as good for that, but for opening lines, which I’ve already posted on elsewhere, definitely!  Some are, obviously, better than others and you can submit your own.   Lots of [...]

]]> By: seanachi http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-228 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:35:56 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-228 Bri,

My hubby is a HUGE Dark Tower fan. I have yet to make it past The Gunslinger….

Prospectus…CLIVE STAPLES? Really? I never knew that!

]]> By: Bri http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-224 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:16:44 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-224 I love that idea of it raining when a good man dies – there are so many ways you could turn that and make it something very surprising.

Also – I just use a regular line until I’m finished with the story. Then I usually pick something that foreshadows the end. I wish I could think of them when I start a story. :)

Also – the fact that you used the Dark Tower line made me inexplicably happy. :D

]]> By: narziss http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-220 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:02:13 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-220 think big…maybe magic rings! :) or the philosopher’s stone… ;)

]]> By: prospectus http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-219 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:00:23 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-219 I always liked that ‘Voyage of the Dawn Treader’. :)

I don’t think it’s any coincidence that it was written by someone called *Clive Staples* Lewis – ever since he was a kid he decided to call himself Jack instead.

How about this one?

“There were things at the bottom of Brother Sebastien’s bag that he didn’t know were there.’ – Lamb, by Bernard McLaverty.

Things? What things? Old chocolate wrappers? Poisonous insects? Guns? How did they get there?

]]> By: seanachi http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-218 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:05:45 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-218 …that a single man in
possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

Sigh…a classic. And well timed! I’m going to see Becoming Jane tonight…

]]> By: narziss http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-217 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:02:13 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/the-importance-of-opening-lines/#comment-217 I totally agree with you. Though I’ve got a fairly decent opening line myself for my first novel, which is in progress (ummm…I am almost about to spill it but I don’t think I want to right now… :) ), my favourite one remains Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice:
It is a truth universally acknowledged… (I’m sure you know that line…)

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