The first sentence in your story is pretty important. The literary canon is full of books with memorable opening lines.
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul." —Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." —Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"It was a pleasure to burn."—Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
"All this happened, more or less."—Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
"Call me Ishmael." —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book." - Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
"I'm pretty much fucked." - Andy Weir, The Martian
"Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What do those opening lines all have in common? For me, it's that they hook you and make you want to know more. Why is the MC of The Martian fucked? What happened in the Slaughterhouse-Five and what didn't? These lines made me want to read more.
So, when you're writing your story, think about your first line and how it is drawing your reader in. Is it interesting? Thought provoking? Does it ask a question that demands an answer? Does it make a reader want to know what happened? Is is shocking? Is it honest? Whatever it is, it should give your reader a reason to continue diving into the world you created.
Good luck on all of your writing ventures!
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