The Fredösphere

This begins series of posts devoted to exercises in writing fiction openers. 

Generally I find endings easy, both in my fiction writing and in my music composition.  The beginnings are usually torture, however, and consume most of my rewriting time.  In the hope of remedying this, I'm going to spend a week or so creating openers. 

I promise to avoid getting too weird--women marrying giraffes will be strictly off limits--but the nature of the exercise will no doubt bias me toward the eye-catching.  So, we'll see what we get.  Also, I'll be interested to find out how many of these beginnings work as stand-alone pieces.  Will this be an exercise in openers, or flash fiction?

To see all the openers in one page, follow the FictionOpeners label below.

Labels: FictionOpeners