Snoopy always starts with, "It was a dark and stormy night...."

When Brandon was little, some of the most interesting stories were made up at night when he was going to bed. Instead of reading him a story, I would start with a line, then he'd add a line, I'd add another, and so on, until we had a really weird story. Usually about Tigger, his best friend. The drawback is that they didn't usually make any sense.

I'm not very creative at stories...sorry can't help ya there. I just wanted to say hello.

Brandon and I wrote a story like that years ago. You might remember the famed Blob from Outer Space. It was awesome.

If I were purchasing children's books... and I saw the "Blob from Outer Space" and a sequel to it... they would probably be sitting on our book shelf at home.
Another book we might be interested in purchasing would be a story about your animals at home. I just read on your mom's Xanga that you have 11 cats.

Here are some great one line openings with wildly diverse potential.

http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=Singing4sDad&tab=weblogs&uid=209274603

You're welcome.

you have 11 cats.   And 6 dogs (I know this is giving the impression that we own a small zoo.)

how about a horror story in which you have just woken up and found yourself held captive in a cage. the last thing you remember is being in a car wreck with your parents...

Hey, I've started writing one about one of our cats! lol. The one whom (in my opinion) has the most personality... and sometimes multiple ones. lol. It's kind of interesting to do.
I'll have to find The Blob and send it to you!! We wrote it a looooong time ago.

HI LUKE!!!!!!

Luke, I've heard you've got a wild imagination.....

Ugh. This is gonna drive me nuts. I was looking for The Blob from Outer Space and I can't find it. I know I still have it somewhere.

Hello.  I stumbled across your site from muddsmith's.  I understand your situation.  I am an English major at FSU and have had to be creative in thinking of new stories, as from time to time the perverbeal "writers block" sets in and staring at the computer screen for hours on end is boring - not to mention it's bad for your eyes; or so they say.  (They also say that carrots are good for your eyes, so if you eat carrots while looking at the screen it may counter act the hurting of the eyes?)  I degress...

Here are some settings/ideas, not opening lines but ideas that I have used before:

1)  Two friends are flying on a plane when it starts to drop towards earth.  One of the friends has a dark secret.

2)  A girl sits on a bench with her head in her hands.  On the ground in front of her is a bouquet of flowers.

3)  A young boy watches his parents murdered in a back alley.  He goes into hiding and takes on the persona of a bat...ohh, wait...never mind that one.

4)  A little girl confined to a wheelchair finds an orphaned little pig.

3)  A young boy watches his parents murdered in a back alley.  He goes into hiding and takes on the persona of a bat...ohh, wait...never mind that one.

LOL!

haha hello