Openers
It must be your lucky day today! Since you open this page, you got to choose one opening and make a story out of it in less than 100 words. The most creative story will win a prize. Hurry up as this is for a limited time only!
1. Kneeling down, Jack gazes at Jen and holds her hand tightly
2. Lucas removes his revolver from the holster quickly
3. While walking towards her block, Jane felt a presence behind her
4. Sarah lights up
5. Lohes stealthily creeps towards the man infront
6. Shan wakes up to find himself
7. Gathering all her remaining strength, Alice ran like mad
8. With tears flowing down her eyes, Sarah readies herself up and look fifty feet down
9. Trembling, Peter tears open the manilla envelope
10. Raj knocks on his house door slowly
11. Hearing strange noises, Mr Ryan opens his son’s door and to his horror
12. Once upon a time
Number 12, isn’t an attention grabbing opener because it is too generic. The ones that work for me and could spark off good stories are nos. 1 – 3, 7,8,11.
Most of your openers are varied so they would definitely help you to think of several different genre stories that you’d like to develop.