This is the most essential part of your story.
I want you to do something.
Grab a book, a random one, a flip open the first page.
See the first sentence there?
This is the game changer. It determined the fact that you bought the book.
Your story will be determined by that sentence for your reader to continue or discard it.
In my opinion, a good first sentence can be the most creative one.
This can be dialogue, a word, or as mentioned a sentence.
It doesn't always have to be one sentence, up to three is what the reader is willing to read before the thoughts of "Do I continue or leave it" start spiraling in.
Here are some examples:
The bodies still littered the streets.
[Tomorrow's Last Breath original version]
She is fading. Her entire existence is slowly washed away, out of this world.
[Fragile But Lovable]
The man didn't struggle. Nor did the silver dagger impaling his throat or Agent Blaze pushing it in, further and further.
[AGENT BLAZE - Aimed To Kill (Blaze-Blue Duet One)]
Do you ever wonder what the breaking point of a hero is? What it takes to turn them into a villain?
[Project #UnfortunateFortune]
"There's a bomb in building number 64."
[Project #What-If]
All these are sentences of my current stories or WIPs.
Read books, their first lines, and come up with something creative.
Here are other first sentences from published books:
I've been locked up for 264 days.
[Shatter Me]
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
It was the day my grandmother exploded.
I didn't intend to kill her.
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