So, I liked the idea of putting up the first (hooker) and last (hanger) lines of your work to see if they're memorable or can pull a reader into the work. I wanted to try it on my current W.I.P., a tribute sequel titled Ruby. It looks like it will only hit novella length, but that's okay.
Chapter 1 Hooker: We are Ina. I had heard those words so many times as I grew up that I didn’t know we were considered different until Momma told us her past.
Chapter 3 Hanger: Later that evening, the Vetrovs' jet crashed.
Chapter 4 Hanger: "Shower before your parents smell him on you."
Chapter 5 Hooker: Just as he said, they left soon after sunset.
Chapter 5 Hanger: “I didn’t want you to live in this kind of world…We’ll have justice. I swear it.”
Chapter 6 Hooker: “And just how do you presume to discover who the culprits are this time?” Joan Braithwaite asked Momma.
Chapter 6 Hanger: “Joel filled us in,” Poppa said. “We’re going to call a Council of the Goddess.”
Chapter 8 Hooker: We received clearance to travel up to New Brunswick on the fifth day of my restriction.
I'm currently working on Chapter 8, so that's all of the eventful ones, I think. :)
Greetings
- Debra Renée Byrd
- Delaware, United States
- Deborah Hawkins, penned Debra Renée Byrd, began writing after a blank book project in elementary school and never stopped, fashioning stories based on her favorite TV shows and movies before creating more original works. She studied at the University of the Arts and Florida State University before settling down and graduating from Temple University. She now resides in her hometown of Dover, DE, where she spends most of her time at work or at church. She loves fantasies, superheroes, is a trekkie and a brown coat. She loves television and lives for Final Fantasy video games, having collected most of them. She has read a myriad of authors, and her favorite authors change whenever she finds a new book that changes her life... "When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl...well, you know the rest." -Tracey, Firefly, "The Message"
2 comments:
Good hookers and hangers, particularly the first one. I enjoyed reading them. :-)
Thanks. :) I needed to get into a quick summary of the original story, so I needed the very first line to pop at the least. lol
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