Opening lines carry a strange kind of pressure. They have to hook a reader before that reader has any reason to care, no plot ...

Tom Corfman is a senior consultant with Ragan Consulting Group. He changed the lede to this story three times until he read Kyle Whitmire’s column. Then he tweaked it twice more. “Come with me. I want ...

In the same vien as the Bulwer-Lytton contests, and inspred by one of FreeRadical*'s posts in the Random Thread. Give us the opening sentence for your Great Novel. The classic example: "It was a dark ...