Comments on: How to Make A Grand Opening https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/07/how-to-make-a-grand-opening/ A Blog On Writing Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Nevaeh https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/07/how-to-make-a-grand-opening/#comment-128397 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:10:05 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32000#comment-128397 In reply to jena c. henry.

Rebecca, right? I remember that one too!

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]]> By: Julie Glover https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/07/how-to-make-a-grand-opening/#comment-128308 Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:18:39 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32000#comment-128308 Love this! The analogy made your points easy to understand. Great stuff to think about as I polish up the opening of the novel I'm working on. Thanks!

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]]> By: Iola Goulton (@IolaGoulton) https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/07/how-to-make-a-grand-opening/#comment-128255 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:18:15 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32000#comment-128255 My name is Adeline Baillard, and my life may end today.
- from The Space Between Words by Michele Phoenix (Sept 2017).

I know the opening line is important, but find it much easier to recognise a good one than actually write it! Not to mention all the other things that have to be in the opening pages. Thanks for the advice.

]]> By: jena c. henry https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/07/how-to-make-a-grand-opening/#comment-128253 Sat, 29 Jul 2017 13:03:59 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32000#comment-128253 What a wonderful piece of writing! Thank you! My opening line suggestion is from an older book, too "Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again"

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]]> By: Sherry Ficklin https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/07/how-to-make-a-grand-opening/#comment-128249 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:11:25 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32000#comment-128249 This is a great post. I have to admit, when I look at submissions, If a story doesn't grab me in the first few paragraphs, I will almost always pass.

]]> By: Orly Konig-Lopez https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/07/how-to-make-a-grand-opening/#comment-128248 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:21:58 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32000#comment-128248 In reply to Tina Ann Forkner.

oh yes!!!!!!!! Forgot about that one. But I remember loving the book.

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