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Writing Exercise #1
Apr. 6th, 2007 01:53 pmI am going to write a series of writing exercises and post them here to share with the live-journal world. I don’t few writing as a solely competitive experience. Yes, there are only a few select finite slots, but we learn from each other and help each other grow in a way that non-writers can never do. And hey, if it means I get more readers on my livejournal, we’ll I won’t complain.
Writing Exercise #1
Write the opening hook for five short stories. A hook, for this example, can be defined as one to three sentences that jumpstarts a story. Feel free to post them here, if you feel the urge.
This is an example of one that I did that lead to my novel Abigail’s Dragon.
Abigail had a secret. Thankfully, her father smoked and her mother didn’t believe in dragons.
Here are a couple of examples:
1. Elizabeth hid under the blanket in the shelter trying not to draw attention to her. The cot hurt her back, but she was terrified that if she moved, even an inch, the children would notice and quit telling the stories.
2. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been three months since my last confession. I’m sure you remember it. It was the night I died.
3. Jeffrey Davis was the second most feared food critic in Seattle. Tony Giuliani was feared the most, but then he once stabbed a waiter with a shrimp fork for getting hair in his soup.
4. She first came to him cloaked in a wet dream. Jordan could not remember her face or her name, but he knew that he loved her and would do anything to be with her.
5. Rooster Brown enjoyed a good bar fight, but he had to admit that it was usually a lot more fun when he won. He was a goliath of a man, standing over six and half feet tall and weighing three hundred fifty pounds and couldn’t remember the last time he lost.
Writing Exercise #1
Write the opening hook for five short stories. A hook, for this example, can be defined as one to three sentences that jumpstarts a story. Feel free to post them here, if you feel the urge.
This is an example of one that I did that lead to my novel Abigail’s Dragon.
Abigail had a secret. Thankfully, her father smoked and her mother didn’t believe in dragons.
Here are a couple of examples:
1. Elizabeth hid under the blanket in the shelter trying not to draw attention to her. The cot hurt her back, but she was terrified that if she moved, even an inch, the children would notice and quit telling the stories.
2. Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s been three months since my last confession. I’m sure you remember it. It was the night I died.
3. Jeffrey Davis was the second most feared food critic in Seattle. Tony Giuliani was feared the most, but then he once stabbed a waiter with a shrimp fork for getting hair in his soup.
4. She first came to him cloaked in a wet dream. Jordan could not remember her face or her name, but he knew that he loved her and would do anything to be with her.
5. Rooster Brown enjoyed a good bar fight, but he had to admit that it was usually a lot more fun when he won. He was a goliath of a man, standing over six and half feet tall and weighing three hundred fifty pounds and couldn’t remember the last time he lost.