News and the Top 100 First Lines
Oct. 1st, 2010 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justine_currieFirst, OMG, Dreamspinner Press accepted my short story and *\o/* will be publishing it in their Advent Calendar in December. Yay!
A big thanks to those who looked it over before I submitted it ♥.
Second, here's a link to what American Book Review feels are the 100 Best First Lines from Novels. You be the judge. (There were at least a couple that lost me and had me nearly drifting off before the end.) Most are good, though. I think the key for me is 'Does it compel me to continue, with an almost need to know what comes next?'
Is there a first line in a book that you would consider to be one of the best? I will admit I don't tend to remember first lines once I get into a book, and I'm not sure I'd say it was the best, but I do like how the Harry Potter series started: "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." ~ JK Rowling
A big thanks to those who looked it over before I submitted it ♥.
Second, here's a link to what American Book Review feels are the 100 Best First Lines from Novels. You be the judge. (There were at least a couple that lost me and had me nearly drifting off before the end.) Most are good, though. I think the key for me is 'Does it compel me to continue, with an almost need to know what comes next?'
Is there a first line in a book that you would consider to be one of the best? I will admit I don't tend to remember first lines once I get into a book, and I'm not sure I'd say it was the best, but I do like how the Harry Potter series started: "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much." ~ JK Rowling