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24 sats \ 5 replies \ @billytheked 21h \ parent \ on: Starting a Composition the_stacker_muse
I immediately had the same thought.
The goal is to hook the reader and convince them to keep on reading. If you've lost their attention then the game is up!
What was the most effective intro you have ever read (and somehow stays etched in your mind)?
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It was a dark and stormy night ahaha
Jk, but "it was the best of times it was the worst of times" always stuck with me despite me not remembering much else about the book
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Omg that was the intro on my mind when I typed this question too!
Thing is, I can’t even remember another intro haha
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. . . . His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
I've always liked how A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce opens, I think because it's loaded with details that leave me with questions.
You might put this one in your final category.
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Somehow this reminds me of the Red Wheelbarrow poem by William Carlo Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
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