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One summer afternoon Mrs Oedipa Maas came home from a Tupperware party whose hostess had just put perhaps too much kirsch in the fondue to find that she, Oedipa, had been named executor, or she supposed executrix, of the estate of one Pierce Inverarity, a California real estate mogul who had once lost two million dollars in his spare time but still had assets numerous and tangled enough to make the job of sorting it all out more than honorary.
“Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage…”
Persuasion by #JaneAusten
Born on this day 249 years ago.
Love that she opened her novel with a man who didn’t read widely.
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“The boy crept stealthily through the low bushes, eyes darting right and left for any sign of the enemy.”
Caligula, by Douglas Jackson, 2008.
Simple, effective, action begins this brilliant novel. A favourite #HistFic story.
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“Winter bites hard in Rogaland. Sodden thatch shudders under its blanket of snow.”
Not all openings are dramatic. This is gorgeously descriptive and atmospheric. The first paragraph is all like this, building detail. Then in para 2, we meet Eyvind fixing a roof.
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Here’s a story starter. What will you do with it? Make it creepy, romantic or a big misunderstanding? I’ve gone for unsettling 😊
“But that’s it – it’s daytime!”
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“The actor Lon Chaney was not himself that morning.”
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People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in the wintertime to avenge her father's blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.
CHARLES PORTIS, True Grit #OpeningSentence
My favourite opening line is from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold -
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'On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on.'
@MarylewisMcrae “Absent for nearly a thousand years, the misbegotten monk gratefully returned to the cliff-bound monastery where it all began…
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The First Line always finds a way to come up with some interesting opening sentences. Usually don't submit but this time around I just might.
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Here's an essay for short story writers on FIRST SENTENCES. I hope it helps.
https://t.co/zx8Xs6kmfH
The opening sentence is crucial in a short story, yet so many writers get this wrong.
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The door to her bedroom creaked open as she snapped on the light and a mysterious figure, a dark shadow scurried out the front door!
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I wished for things to be different, to be anyone else other than me, but knew at the depth of my Wiccan heart, my yoga soul, my writing-inclined brain, that wasn’t so, not really.
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“I ran some Crazy Cracker off the block yesterday.” #OpeningSentence @Head_Roc Watch out for the #CAM 😂🤣
XTRA! XTRA!
READ: Capitol Resistance's "Not Here, in Chocolate City" by Head-Roc in the July 2021 issue of @kapitalmags w/ @priestdn featured!
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"I seemed to be standing in a bus queue by the side of a long, mean street."
#bookbeginnings: THE GREAT DIVORCE, C. S. Lewis's classic allegory about Heaven & Hell.
What's the first sentence of the book you are reading?
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"Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
One of the strongest first sentences in literature.
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"You're sure she doesn't know," said Georgie.
"Antonia? About us? Certain."
A SEVERED HEAD by Iris Murdoch on #BookBeginnings
Share the #openingsentence (or so) from the book you are reading.
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JUNETEENTH by Ralph Ellison, author of INVISIBLE MAN, on #bookbeginnings:
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"History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed." #openingsentence Kuhn’s STRUCTURE (1962), probably still the most important rationale for doing #histsci today
Read the #openingsentence from BAD DAD JOKES: THAT'S HOW EYE ROLL, #newbook by @BartKing and @JACKOHMAN on #BookBeginnings:
https://t.co/rljnlLlVTF
A perfect book of puns and goofy dad jokes for kids stuck at home!
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