how to write the first sentence  

It comes when you want to sleep but your brain is randomly coming up with the best sentence ever and then you can't sleep because your so focused on your book

I’m still drafting the chapters of my story but I kind of wrote a few pages into the first chapter by mistake 😭😭 it’s just hard because the subject of the book is mature (corrupt government/oppression) and I want to convey the darkness of what’s happening in the world

LMAOO THATS ME TOO

my best lines come at 3 am when i have insomnia

Here’s a first line I wrote that I’m actually happy with- “I always thought moving to mars was a stupid idea, but stupid things become more desirable when you're desperate.”

and when you finally think you found it, only to read it later and delete it

advice!! just put [opening sentence] and keep going! it’s all about the momentum when you’re writing your first draft. once you’re ready, you go back to your brackets and edit them to actually say what you want :)

'Look, I didn't want to be a half blood.' Still brings me to tears.

Okay so I started writing my book over the quarantine after I had a dream about floating space koi fish. No I was not high, I don’t do drugs or drink I’m 16 years old and religious. But I ended up writing a 270 pg sci fi novel in the span of 8 months. I haven’t got it published and I probably won’t, but I’m very proud of it and someday I might edit it again and submit it. Who knows

I still haven’t written it. I’m working on it backwards 😂

Meanwhile Rick Riordan: "Yea, i know. You guys are going to read about how i died in agony and you're going to be like, "WOW that sounds cool Magnus! Can i die in agony too?"

As a learning writer, I’ve learned by several writers, telling me that when writing for first draft of a book-or even the first sentence…NEVER delete what you write, just keep on writing until you get all the way to the very end. That’s what revisions are for at the end. You write whatever you are thinking about, and then when you reach then end, that’s where you can do the revisions and all of the finalizing stuff. Never correct something while in the middle of writing: because that will only disturb the flow of your writing, thus, only making it much more harder to get back to where you left off.

I’m the type to get good ideas when I can’t work on it, then when I work on it, I forget my idea-😅

My first line ended up being “I live in Utopia, and it’s a living hell.”

In the shower i came up with the best intro ever to the story i was working on but the moment i stepped out of the shower i immediately forgot like 80% of what i imagined

Relatable it’s taking me 5 months to figure it out and I’m still confused as a baby beginner writer

I’ve been on the New York Times best seller list several times. Let me give you a bit of advice, always start your book with, “Once upon a time.” And end it with, “And then he/she woke up from a dream.”

As a person who likes to write stories I can confirm writing at 12:00am to 3:00am you have the best quotes or storyline scenes😅

Here is a good start for your book "The cold winter air felt like it was humming outside my window" "The clock hit midnight it felt like ive been up for hours" "As i walked into the woods i heard a crunch of a stick..." "The grass was beatiful the birds were sworming above the sky" Hope this helps

The only satisfactory hook I wrote was: "Everyone knows you don't wake a sleeping teenager. Well, minus my mom." It still isn't even my best work-

This is so relatable 😭 I have been making a paragraph for HOURS and just didn't like it and deleted the whole thing- I HAVE TOO MANY IDEAS IDK WHAT TO START. BUT WHEN ITS GRAMMAR, PERSUASION, BETTER WORDS. I COULDN'T 😭😭😭

The hardest thing for me is choosing what my book will be about

Me: I'm a writer with multiple plays, published poems, several award placements Also me: spent the last hour typing the words "the expansive expressway" and backspacing because I don't know what comes next 😂

Same but for the first sentence and the first chapter. I write and think nope, and I write the chapter again and think nope. It took forever for me to get my book started

“Look, I didn’t want to be a halfblood.” NEVER LETTING GO OF THAT UNCLE RICK

Meanwhile, my first sentence: Cold.

My favourite ones "Look, i didnt want to be a half-blood" "A s3x tape. A pregnancy scare. Two cheating scandals. And that's just this week's update" "My name is Apollo. I used to be a god" "Pip knew where they lived. Everyone in Little Kilton knew where they lived" "Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were very normal, thank you very much."

hi! here's mine: "my family's been dead for as long as I can remember." (it's metaphorical and reveals a splash of internal conflict right at the start to get the reader hooked, hope you like it!) ❤

Honestly I find worrying about the opening line can really get ya! Instead just write, I mean life's a rough draft. Better to have something then to have nothing.

I really want to be an author/illustrator when I grow up. I have thought of many ideas in my head, I’m really good at grammar for my age, and I am great at writing and drawing :)

Whenever I start a new chapter I always make sure to write “look I wrote something the chapter had started” before writing anything. And whenever I leave off I summarize what the next thing I need to happen is so when I come back I never have to deal with blank page syndrome.

I made a book on an app. (NO I AM NOT PUBLISHING IT) it was about a cat who runs away from his owners and joins a group of stray city cats. It’s pretty cool.

I'm working on a book but i don't know if people will read it so I'm gonna tell you like a summary ig? Tell me if you would read it! This teenage boy ash and his best friend Luna live in a world with constant crimes but lately there's been a mass murderer on the loose. Ash is faced with a big conflict he can't resolve alone when this other guy august shows up out of nowhere and is faced with the same conflict so they decide to work together. But Luna shows up with suspicions against August while August has suspicions against her. Who does ash trust? Will he ever resolve his conflict? Please let me know if this sounds interesting! Idk if i should keep working on it or not

I discovered that background noise or arbitrary action (eg: Characters not yet known to the reader performing an action that involves speaking. A great example of this style of writing is evident in many thriller and mystery films) is a good way to start a story, and allows for easy world-building by setting parameters by which you can describe more easily because characters are interacting with it. But, that's just my opinion.

HELP, THATS LITERALLY WHAT IM HERE FOR

« Dead people stay dead. » my friend Alex uttered » (It’s a YA lgbt romance book)

I finally found one I might stick with it’s “I still here the echo’s of his screams.”

Normally when I write, I start with a character saying something like: "Yo, bartender! 5 shots o’ whiskey. On the rocks. Straight up! Put it on my tab.” A woman of 24 shouted out. Prideful. The woman adjusted her black satin shirt whilst tying herself a messy bun. Her light-grey blazer hung on the back of her chair. The bar was relatively new, considering the old Gothic-style feel towards it and the soot-streaked walls. In perspective, imagine the Cologne Cathedral but, a bar rather than a cathedral. Whispers emerged from the rest of the customers. Yes, I this is the opening para to a book I'm writing:')

Here's a novel! There was once a little boy whos name was Arkin. When he was five, his parents had abandoned him since they were out of money and they wont be able to care for him. His parents left in in the house with nothing left but broken furniture. He called out "mommy daddy please come back!". He tried to chase after them but they drove off. He decided to stay in the house. Wait guys i have to eat!!! So here's part 2! He was sitting on the floor thinking of how he would be able to live without his parents wispering to himself "why would they leave me like this" he said while eating a molded bread. He stepped outside sitting on the porch looking at the other kids playing from a park a few blocks away. He thought that he was worthless. He decided to teach himself how to do self defense. Since then he would practice by going to this special tree he planted and started to punch the trunk. Even tho he was bleeding, he wouldn't stop because he thought "maybe if i get stronger they would come back for me". After 8 years, Arkin was 16 years old. He had taught himself what a normal kid should know. He was walking to a store to buy food with the money he saved. He saw a karen(just used that as an example no hard feelings on people named karen). She kept on arguing with him. He got so pissed he punched her and was about to beat her up if his childhood friend (Kd) hadn't stoped him. After that day he would beat up anyone who messes with Kd and himself. Remember Villains aren't born They are made Thanks for reading this!

Here’s another first sentence that I wrote, “Something everyone has to learn is that things can always get worse, no matter who you are, or how much you hate it. You just have to come to terms with it.”

My friend and I were watching things like this and 15 minutes ago wanted to write a book and this was literallyvus

i’m on the second draft and i’m still positive that the whole first section isn’t right but we move

I just write random quotes I mean in one of my books it opens with *well I'm in a cult now guess this will be my personality*

GUYS i have come up wihh a very good-In my opinion-- plot that if someone good at writing had the idea, it could make more than 200 pages i think. I started writing it but im not good at detailing things and im straighforward so do yall have any tips on how to make the Books longer??

For my prologue it’s: Lucille: We were going to have to be the ones to get the Scroll of Secrets back. But my actual first sentence of the first chapter is: I woke up on a school bus leaning on somebody. Where was I?

My first line was legit November 12, 2018 💀

Whoever said the ending is the hardest to write, never wrote a book. I HATE the begining.

Hi! I’m a 11 kid who has a whole book I wanna write! My dad is maybe helping- who knows maybe I’ll be the youngest author lol

For me the first sentence in my book came easy it just flowed out of me onto the pages

If I was ever going to write a book, like I’m planning on doing, I would write this: I had my head pressed against the window of the car, and I knew I should never speak again. After all I did it for love. As I sat in the cold jail cell, I felt numb. I knew I shouldn’t of spoken. (Please don’t steal this, because I’m thinking about making it into an actual book.)

"I got a feeling of nostalgia as I crept through my old house." -Vanished A book im writing, about a girl who erases everyone off the earth besides for herself and has been trying for 2 years to bring everyone back, must work even harder to bring everyone back as she finds a suprise on her journey. Is she really the only one left?

Tips: start with a conversation start by saying how the mc was feeling to create a tension, don’t use the mcs name: only pronouns start with a character desc start with a setting desc start with what the mc was doing start with what changed the mcs life start with describing the character in 1 word

unrelated but you hve the same laptop as me fr

I love going straight to the point 😅

MAKE THE LONGEST FR CHAIN!

I started writing my first book a few weeks ago 😭

for me i always write the most stupid pea-brain 3 sentences, then by the 2nd or 3rd paragraph my writting gets better and more structured. Then I just re-write the entire first paragraph or page, fixing grammatical errors and whatnot

Fr. Im trying to write books so i can be an author my dream job so i can relate to this

What I’ve read that makes the book perfect: The distance between me and the cherry tree is the book! Book starts like: All children are scared of the dark Ends like: I’m gonna write a book. It’s gonna start like: All children are scared of the dark

I once did 18 ½ single spaced pages, stopped in the middle of 19, went over it, again , didn't like how it was going, and then select all and then Space Bar-ed it all into oblivion. I use the Space Bar because it sounds like a great name for a Bar for writers, or Words, and if you're gonna go, might as well have a drink, and so I serve my friends a drink into the unknown. The Story went better with a more thrill behind it, which is what I wanted, probably because I had just deleted a couple of hours of work lol. The Story was better for it, it's what the Muses wanted and so I had to comply. Thanks for reading, and never be afraid to start over, that wasn't the first time I did that, and 19 ½ wasn't the longest either. You'll know it because nothing in it feels right, and no amount of editing will help, no copy and paste will save it. It's good to destroy your work sometimes, it brings out and produces better work and in a strange way the first draft is an amalgamation of a first and second draft existing as one. Okay, all be well, and be safe!

The best lines when I was in elementary and was tasked with making a story: " A long time ago... "

That's me with the whole book

“he was a boy. she was a girl. can i make it anymore obvious?”

Whenever I start writing a book I always start it with some sort of flash back so that I have people hooked on the book than i write the rest for example I’m writing a book and the first sentence is, “What have I done…” Jamie said as cold tears fell down there face. VOILA!

LMAOOO OMGEE FRRR 😭😭😣😣🙏

mine is “tonight is the first night the windwatchers have gone silent. Ever.”

I literally can’t relate more 😭

Haha, I've rewriten the first chapter of my book a good five times, yet my first line has never changed 😅

Fr😂

So when I was writing (I still am 😭😭) Unknown Echoes , The first sentence was my character introducing herself because it’s a diary!

The start is so difficult to write because it's the first chapter that has to catch the reader or at least it's like that for me when I read a book lol

I always start my books with the main character talking to somebody

Ha! Currently typing a short one. Not a published author so now I'm curious about this channel.

This is the most relatable video i have ever seen 😂

this man is so soothing

HELP MY FIRST SENTECE IS " Runa knew where she was going... but did she?

It was a dark and stormy night...

Mine started with “ WHERES PAPPA GOING WITH THAT AXE" ( charlottes web)

“We are all skinny dogs. Starving, cancerous, staring straight into the unforgiving eyes of a bullet.”

Yup then keep trying for 4 years later and your like SHIII I WASTED 4 YEARS OF MY LIFE TRYING TO START THIS BOOK

Too real, im currently writing a book, and i started with a random part that I'd like to have in the beginning😭 so i just added the first sentence later on-

Wonderful✨😍 🤣😂❤😌 your video make me laugh m sick but laughing😂🤣😅😅🤣😂 exactly it is 👏😴

FRR THO bcs I literally had the greatest ideas for my book and its soo dead rn the first sentence is "Bye Mom!" I say as I leave the house. HELPPP

“Not to worry, I’ll fix you!” Exclaimed the mother, as she obliged to fix her child’s toy, referring to it as if it was alive. N-n, not to worry.. I-I’ll, fix y- *gasp* you!” Exclaimed the mother, as she tried her hardest to stitch the cut up insides of her child’s body, referring to him as if he was alive.

' "with love, Arene Lukas." Is what I wrote on my sister's funeral card. yes, I killed her. But that's none of the polices business' -my new books first line. (Bad grammar is not gonna be in the book im too lazy to fix it.)

I was writing a book and then the worst part is is that the next day i forgot to save it, so all my hard work was thrown to garbage 💀💀💀

I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THIS- it is so easy to write the ending (for me), but the beginning is so hard. I am working on one of my novels ( which is a trilogy) and I just had to start it off with a nightmare. (It does fit with the character and her storyline.) ❤️❤️❤️ Edit: The name of the book is why I started the chapter off with a nightmare. She is a seer and the name of the first book is “Home to Nightmares.” (It does have an official name, but I won’t be giving that out just yet. ❤)

Me: okay, I already have the historical context, a well-defined power system, likeable characters, and an interesting plot. How do I start writing? Writers: bold of you assume I know

Imma need help with that when I start. Because rn I’m only making what I’m going to put in the book. Like different creatures and plants. It’s called The Kingdom of Ivory and Crows and it’s based in a modern-ish medieval Ireland. I’m including the Fae because yes. I know this will disappoint many, but there will be ZERO romance/spice. But found family? Probably. My protagonist is only 17 lmao. They’re traumatized as shit and hates romance despite fantasizing about it. Aromantic/Asexual? No he’s just gay in denial.

Lemme just start over real quick

My story: Brooke got abducted by aliens in the Utah desert while walking her dog then realises in the spaceship that she forgot to feed the goldfish and do a number 2. The chief alien then squeaks and the engines roar loudly like a big fart. Wham! Bang! Zoom! She was in space, with the petrified (now hairless from the engine blast) dog and two aliens! The chief alien’s sidekick now starts to cuss rappers in fluent Portuguese as they approach the moon, calling himself Slim Goaty. They land on the moon surface and get out in space suits. The chief alien now suddenly rips off a mask and it is in fact the man himself, Michael Jordan! The side kick alien now laughs hysterically in fake disbelief and rips his mask off to reveal himself as CR7 dressed as a goat. Ronaldo then asks her, do you want me to show you a surprise? She says yes. CR7 then shoves Brooke into the spaceship and leaves Jordan on the moon. Ronaldo crashes the spaceship into a Russian snowy forest and then he takes her to a circus truck where she meets Messi and Harry Potter, who go under the names of Goatman and Bobby. Brooke then falls in love with Messi after spending 5 mins in the Russian oligarch circus as Jordan is left stranded on the moon and Ronaldo exclaims “suiiiiiii!!!” ! Spider-Man’s long lost brother called Ronnie then comes out of nowhere and says “I am the Turbo! “ with a quick flex of his lats he said don’t call me Batman I am LATMAN!!!” He gate crashes the performance but Messi whisks away Brooke to the Love Island hideaway on to encounter a teleported Ronnie who has an epic Taekwondo fight which results in Ronnie winning-over Brooke and Messi tangled up defenceless in an icky sticky web. Messi then gets taken away by a Russian Mafia boss and then he screams “Brooke pleeeaaase!!!”. But there was no reply. She was already partying in the Russian love island rip off Mallorca villa with the love of her life, Ronnie!

I’m actually gonna start making a book soon! I’m excited but I don’t know what the plot should be, anyone give me a hand?

So...I am the only one who kinda like the first sentence?😅

Mine is “So you’re telling me all the work I’ve done to keep you safe because I’ve been sick worried those psycho would do something to you has gone to waste?!”

I have so many ideas at 2 am and then in the morning I read them and realize they're AWFUL

Mine are kinda ridiculous 😭 "Tubbo sighed and leaned against the wall. It was a rather tiring day than usual." (fanfic) "Philza stared into the distance, he exhaled, nothing new happened that day (for once!) so it was a little boring." (fanfic) "Let’s see, how shall I start this?" (novel that I will never finish)

Hey. New writer here! I was wondering how you reveal two of your characters are siblings? Like they already know, but the readers don't? Like maybe "hello brother/ sister" but that might not be taken as siblings?

One time I was just showering and my mind began spouting a goated dialogue for my character

As she asked, *"How much has your journey changed you?"* My response was, *"More then I can count but what I learned from that long journey, from the past to the present, is that life could change if you end up choosing the right path, the right perspective."* What path are you willing to take in life..?

…I spent 2 days coming up with the first line in my book, it’s been 2 months and I’m 1 chapter in.