06-21-2006, 04:33 PM | #1 |
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Opening Hooks
Showcase your talents at opening a story!
It's the Hook thread! Here's how it works. I will post a partial plot or opening scenario, and then you all post your best literary hook for a story about the topic. After some time, I'll close the contest and get people to vote on the best hook. The winner gets to moderate the next contest! So, here's the first scenario: A man discovers that he's the brother of his blood rival. So, start writing!
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Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan) |
06-22-2006, 06:11 AM | #2 |
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I'm sorry but I'm a little confused about the 'hook' bit. Just what would we have to write, the first line or paragraph or the climax?
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06-22-2006, 06:26 AM | #3 |
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Little did the beautiful belgian girl with the long wispy hair know that the large burly and mad staring man on the other side of the world was her destiny, her hope, her salvation, but ultimately her doom...
Nor did Big C realize when his fateful fingers tapped those doom-laden keystrokes ... just what he was letting himself in for ... the world turned, a butterfly flew over a grain of sand, and somewhere a half open eye witnessed a tiny ripple in the fabric of sureality ... and somone or something tittered ... Last edited by Butterbeer : 06-22-2006 at 06:37 AM. |
06-22-2006, 06:37 AM | #4 |
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"Careful man," whispered a voice from the alley. "Frog eat butterfly, man... eat him alive!"
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06-22-2006, 06:39 AM | #5 |
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In a shadowy darkened room Big C shuddered suddenly.
a sibiliant sssssssss-ing sound hissed under the sound of eery silence. A snake coiled at Big C's feet. Last edited by Butterbeer : 06-22-2006 at 06:41 AM. |
06-22-2006, 06:59 AM | #6 |
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The woman sat down, her chin resting on her hand, while the fingers of her other hand were drumming on the table. "Somehow, that's not answering my question," she said.
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06-22-2006, 07:18 AM | #7 |
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somewhere a drum rolled ...
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06-22-2006, 04:15 PM | #8 | |
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First line. That's the definition of a hook. Then again, this is looking like a bizarre sort of RPG... 90 Second rule... Feed it to the snake!!!
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Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan) |
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06-22-2006, 07:26 PM | #9 | |
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So opening lines it is. You can't really beat a classic in that field: "It was a dark and stormy night."
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06-24-2006, 01:18 PM | #10 |
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I wanna try! Lest this confuse anyone, think of this as the openning of a sequel to a story in which a young but incredibly talented pilot is doing research on his latest opponent in a hospital after suffering a major defeat in a space dog-fight from an unidentified prototype starfighter. But if the sequel idea is illegal, then just count out this entry.
"The young pilot Toran Charr of the Earth Nation Government gazed in silent horror at the holographic screne as the secret opperative's information on the pilot that had put him in the hospital was slowly scrolling down before him; however, Toran read naught else but the name of this new and deadly adversary, paralized by the dark omen which it foretold." |
06-27-2006, 01:36 PM | #11 | |
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Here's my entry: Only one word could describe his father's deathbed confession: Impossible.
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06-27-2006, 04:36 PM | #12 |
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Nice. Or, the wonderful fantasy classic...
"The wind blew from the north, enveloping him in a maelstrom of shock and disbelief; it swept over the lands of [Fantasy Country A] and [Fantasy Country B]...it wasn't the beginning, for there are neither ends nor beginnings in this story-but it was a beginning."
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Adventure...betrayal...heroism... Atharon: where heroes are born. My wife once said to me—when I'd been writing for ten or fifteen years—that I could always go back to being a nuclear engineer. And I said to her, 'Harriet, would you let someone who quit his job to go write fantasy anywhere near your nuclear reactor? I wouldn't!' (Robert Jordan) |
06-27-2006, 05:00 PM | #13 |
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Impossible?
said a hollow eery voice from behind the crypt ... |
06-28-2006, 12:58 AM | #14 |
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He awoke with the feeling that this day would be like no other he had ever experienced.
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06-28-2006, 07:12 AM | #15 |
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Here's my excuse of an attempt at writing.
Of all the things that could have come to be - after all these years of being at each others throats, after all the insults given and received in exchange, after all the betrayals, breaches of trust and territories - the fact that [character 2] and he were siblings was the worst...some wounds just ran too deep.
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06-28-2006, 03:27 PM | #17 |
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... back of a corn flakes packet???
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06-28-2006, 06:48 PM | #18 |
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I knelt to tie my shoe. That's what saved me.
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06-29-2006, 05:49 AM | #19 |
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they say luck comes in threes ...
at that very momment for reasons best left unexplained, i happened to be limbo-dancing ... That's what saved me. |
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It's New Years Day, just like the day before; Same old skies of grey, same empty bottles on the floor. Another year's gone by, and I was thinking once again, How can I take this losing hand and somehow win? Just give me One Good Year To get my feet back on the ground. I've been chasing grace; Grace ain't so easily found One bad hand can devil a man, chase him and carry him down. I've got to get out of here, just give me One Good Year! |
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