Writing a story is one thing. But getting people to want to read it is quite another. Somewhere within the first few sentences there has to be a "hook", that catches the reader's interest.
I am going to give one sentence, and I want to see what you can do with it. This is sort of like Drew Carey's game where your points and scores are mythical. The sentence isn't Genre specific, so you can turn it into romance, fantasy, a murder mystery. But you have fifteen lines to make it work. You don't have to use all fifteen lines.
Game piece:
Roland heard a loud bang and turned to see where it came from.
(Let's see how many directions you can take this. That bang could be just about anything...)
I am going to give one sentence, and I want to see what you can do with it. This is sort of like Drew Carey's game where your points and scores are mythical. The sentence isn't Genre specific, so you can turn it into romance, fantasy, a murder mystery. But you have fifteen lines to make it work. You don't have to use all fifteen lines.
Game piece:
Roland heard a loud bang and turned to see where it came from.
(Let's see how many directions you can take this. That bang could be just about anything...)