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The first line of a book has one job: invite the reader to take the next step.
I shared mine from Ashes—now I’m challenging other authors to do the same.
✨ Start any of my series free—link in bio.
#amwriting #fantasyauthor #firstlinechallenge
📜 Writers, drop the FIRST LINE of your book in the comments!
The catch? It should be so gripping that a reader can’t help but continue reading. Let’s see your best hooks! 🔥
#FirstLineChallenge #HookYourReader #OpeningLine #WritersOfInstagram #AmWriting
📚 Let's play 'Guess the Book' by its first line! Comment with your answers and challenge your fellow book lovers to test their knowledge. 📖🔤 #GuessTheBook #FirstLineChallenge
Far Out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the galaxy
#WritingCommunity #poetry #Superheroes #graphicnovels #firstlinechallenge
Making a poem from the first line...Poets against humanity
@alienp0et
I'm having tons of fun right now with @EmmaLindhagen @emewrites @explorergrace in our Nano cabin, sharing the first lines of our WIPs.
Mine is:
When the drums had begun, only an hour before, the town square had been empty.
What's yours?
#WritingCommunity #firstlinechallenge
@JazdzewskiTara Working on Chapter 8 right now. 3302 words in 3 days!
It starts with:
Razor wire crawled up the walls, sprouting newer and more deadly branches, until it circled the top of the building like a crown of thorns and hummed.
#firstlinechallenge #writingcommunity #campnanowrimo2019
Rae was fairly certain that her Gran had grown up drowning kittens.
#firstlinechallenge #amwriting #onlyinfiction
Okay #writingcommunity it's your turn: What’s the first line from the first novel you ever wrote?
(Naturally you need to #follow anyone with an amazing start.)
Her beige suitcase, sat on the worn carpet beneath the mirror, would have disappointed her childhood self.
#firstlinechallenge #writingcommunity #followyourdream @judywaite2
I had to start writing to avoid feeling this way about my own life. Anyone else feeling the writing love?
After shattering a man’s skull against a wall, Aaron had no time for the family’s stifled whimpers.
#firstlinechallenge #writingcommunity #angerissues #badboys
Is it wrong that he is my favourite character so far? If I get 17 new followers (Aaron’s age), I’ll share more!
The sound of cracking spines mirrored the breaking of her spirits.
#firstlinechallenge #writingcommunity #dontbendthatbook #spineprotectionsociety @runpetewrite
Does this bother anyone else? Or am I alone in my outrage?
The winds roared past the tree, thunder and rain rattling the branches with the anger of a woman truly scorned, almost drowning out the whimper of the child hidden in its roots.
#firstlinechallenge #writingcommunity #crimenovel @SimonHallNews
Which title would you pick?
I'm here for the tagging. (And hi @juliebux, @aswinn & @kathglasgow !) #FirstLineChallenge accepted.
1st line of ART BOSS:
"8/12 3:13pm How can so much happen in three days?"
Tag, you're it: @theames @RobinBenway @thebestjasmine !!!
Tagged by @JanineRosche for #firstlinechallenge "I hated attention. Didn't deliberately seek it out." Tagging @JessicaKate05 and @deborah_clack
"Glencraig House loomed out of the fog, a perfect gothic horror setting." #firstlinechallenge as tagged by @clundoff. Start of a werewolfy short story! I'm tagging @OliviaRBurton @ld_rose @K8JohnsonAuthor @yolandasfetsos
@SignyTheSage @EmmaLindhagen @BunnyDarkness @ThorneBM @1aprildaniels #firstlinechallenge "Disa stomped through the underbrush. Even with birds singing in the foliage and the sun filtering through leaves dabbed with yellows, oranges and reds, her mood stayed sour." Viking-age fantasy short story with a teenage-bride as the MC
Tag if you want it!
Tagged by @AuthorAmandaWen #firstlinechallenge:
Chapter 1 of “Bear Creek Saddle Cowboy” starts with #Scripture (see image to read it, it’s an amazing verse!):
Matthew 6:26–27 (NIV)
Almost there.
Tagging @ThompsonAuthor @AmandaGeaney @emilyjanehubb 😊
#amwriting #ChristFic
Tagged by @rachelsmcdaniel #firstlinechallenge
Madeline Green coughed on the bacon-scented air, and her face burned like she’d pressed it into the grill.
Tagging @SDGwords @Ruthette @KDmae
@clundoff @tlecountmyers @KateBStrawther @According2Robyn @mmphillips42 @CarolAnneDougl1 @EmmaLindhagen @naomi_jay #firstlinechallenge "You know the scent of lavender on the fresh sheets when you get them from the linen press for the housemaids to take up?"
(Not tagging because I have to get back to work on this risk assessment.)
Tagged by @RebekahMillet #firstlinechallenge
Elissa Tillman’s stare magnetized to the man accused of murder.
Tagging @emilyrconrad @JanineRosche @JanyreTromp
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