Day 14 Assignment 14: Brainstorming the beginning scenes. Write 20 Opening lines that grab the attention of the reader. Next write a list of 5 scene summaries that may be included in the beginning of the book.

Alright so I’m not going to post too much of my actual book. It’s not that I don’t trust the entire universe that has access to my blog. It’s just that I want my book to be amazing and I don’t want to give away too much. So I apologize in advance that I will not be posting many excerpts of my story.

So for this exercise I had to write 20 opening lines. In 10^th grade my English teacher taught us that every good paper or story must have a “hook”, meaning an opening line that would draw your readers in. This was fun to work on since I haven’t found an opening line/scene that I like yet. I have quite a few that I like now. I also had to write 5 scene summaries (i.e. hit by bus, sent to hospital, meets long lost mother who is a nurse) that example has nothing to do with my story by the way. This part was interesting since the scene didn’t have to be the opening scene and could be any scene in the beginning of the book.

Anyways this assignment was a lot of fun.
Two of the many things I brainstormed today.
line opening:
He stared out the window, and watched nervously as a man in a black coat disappeared around the corner

Scene Summary:
Grabbed by muggers(?) robbed, beaten and left for dead

Day 14 Completed.