Comments on: Fabulous News the First

By: Katie

Katie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:53:56 +0000

There’s always “It was a dark and stormy night.”

I read (and love!) all the confessions, but sometimes my eyes skip over the chapter title and I don’t catch it until the second reading.

By: First lines «

First lines « — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:30:50 +0000

[...] if not servicey, I thought I’d point out the obvious fact that lots of people have been talking about classic first lines as of late on the internets. The LA Times litblog Jacket Copy pointed me [...]

By: Trish

Trish — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:53:26 +0000

I don’t think I have a favorite first line from someone else’s book, but my favorite of what I’ve written is the first line of a YA WIP tentatively titled LITTLE:

As a rule, guys don’t just fall at my feet.

By: Diana

Diana — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:36:04 +0000

It is indeed from Rampant, Patrick. Amy doesn’t know a claymore from a caltrop. Astrid… well, occupational hazard.

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These are some of my fave line. I do love the Dawn Treader one. I’d forgotten about that!

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distracted, I love that line too. However, someone I know doesn’t agree with us that it’s snarky and in fact decided that he did not like the book on the grounds that he took that line at face value — that it was all about women looking for husbands, blah blah blah…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0000

My anti-spam is claymore*. I need to read Rampant!!!!

*I’m assuming this is from Rampant.

By: Liza

Liza — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:25:56 +0000

How very exciting! I’ve only read the first in the Uglies series, but it was really wonderful! Some of my favorite first lines have already been listed.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:58:18 +0000

I’m not much of a first line person.

The first line of my WIP is-

I could tell you the ending, but I won’t.

By: Andee

Andee — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:55:04 +0000

First line: “Who’s there?” from Hamlet, because it sets the scene for everything in the play: suspence, distrust, and doing what you are meant to do.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:19:21 +0000

I love the confessions and chapter titles! I think they’re like little extra treats I originally had section titles for my book but they got taken out for fear of being spoiler (which I didn’t think they were but then again, I knew what happened in the book).

I’m really happy with my first line: “My mother used to tell me about the ocean.”

You know me, I’m weird about first lines. Can’t go anywhere until I find the right one!

By: Phyllis Towzey

Phyllis Towzey — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:14:20 +0000

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again.”