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01/31/2015 03:00:26 AM · #1 |
| Hi, just a quick question. Does the image for this challenge have to portrait the book? I.e lets say a novel from the 20's but an opening line that has timeless meaning, can the image be a modern time image, or does it need to be recognizable as coming from the story of the book? Could also be that the hero in the book is female, but the image is portrayed as male, or even an animal, etc. |
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01/31/2015 05:45:43 AM · #2 |
| Don't worry about the story of the book, just let the line speak to you. That would be my advice anyway... |
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01/31/2015 07:35:50 AM · #3 |
| the title of the image must coincide with the title of the book? |
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01/31/2015 08:01:53 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by Sisto:
the title of the image must coincide with the title of the book? |
From the challenge description: "Title your entry with the opening line from any work of fiction" |
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01/31/2015 08:37:08 AM · #5 |
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01/31/2015 12:21:38 PM · #6 |
| Kind of disappointed with this one. How many GOOD opening lines will fit into a title at DPC? |
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01/31/2015 12:42:46 PM · #7 |
I found one I like--- and start working on it.
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01/31/2015 03:07:38 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by CEJ:
How many GOOD opening lines will fit into a title at DPC? |
These first lines are plucked from American Book Review and chosen for their brevity.
//americanbookreview.org/100bestlines.asp
I am an invisible man.
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Psychics can see the color of time it's blue.
Ronald Sukenick, Blown Away (1986)
It was a pleasure to burn.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
A screaming comes across the sky.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)
Call me Ishmael.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851)
It was love at first sight.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (1961)
‘Hey Al. Come look at this one.’
Ben H. Winters, Bedbugs (2011)
Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.
Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye (1988)
Or, you can always take the first few words, use ellipsis points and finish the sentence in the comments. Making it an unfinished sentence could give you more artistic license, too.
Just a thought.
edit: Removed quotation marks
Message edited by author 2015-01-31 15:09:54. |
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01/31/2015 04:04:58 PM · #9 |
Why not opening lines from movies?
"Radar!"
"Yes, sir."
(M*A*S*H) |
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01/31/2015 06:33:42 PM · #10 |
Yes. That is a work of fiction. The challenge description does not say "book"
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01/31/2015 06:38:44 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:
Yes. That is a work of fiction. The challenge description does not say "book" |
Good point! |
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01/31/2015 06:50:08 PM · #12 |
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01/31/2015 08:16:37 PM · #13 |
A classic series if ever I saw one. |
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02/01/2015 10:21:28 AM · #14 |
Are we supposed to reference the work of fiction from which we've taken the opening line, a la  tome? |
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02/02/2015 06:57:30 PM · #15 |
That's an interesting question, Susan - I would like to know the answer too
We are not obliged to tell title/movie/author but might it be reason for a blast? I can remember that I titled an entry not solely "aftermath" but added two more words and I don't want to make the same mistake again.
On the other hand - nobody might recognize my opening line as an opening line without refernece to the origin ...and rate my entry as dnmc...
What would you do?
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02/02/2015 06:59:09 PM · #16 |
I added the author to mine because of it being "fictional novels" I think it just ads a punch to the picture of where it comes from
I would like to know that too because people will ding for points and scores if it is to be there |
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02/02/2015 07:50:08 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by jgirl57:
I added the author to mine because of it being "fictional novels" I think it just ads a punch to the picture of where it comes from
I would like to know that too because people will ding for points and scores if it is to be there |
I've referenced the name of the book in mine for the reasons outlined by both Julie and Barbara. First, it doesn't hurt to do so esp if you may be using an older or more obscure work, and second, I always like a good title - beit for a challenge entry or a book title.
ETA: There is also the possibility that your choice for this challenge covers more than one base - like a book that's also been made into a movie. Surely we'll see a few of those!
Message edited by author 2015-02-02 20:13:41. |
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02/02/2015 08:09:13 PM · #18 |
| As the challenge description indicates, the first line will suffice. My first line was longer than space allowed, so first phrase supplemented with ending ellipse. |
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02/03/2015 08:03:03 AM · #19 |
I wouldn't worry too much as this is really just another free study. Take anything you fancy and fit a line to it.
I know that isn't the idea but it works just as well really. |
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02/03/2015 09:22:19 PM · #20 |
| ugh... i'm hating this limit on the number of characters for the title... kinda ruins the idea of an "opening line" if you have to drop some of it, doesn't it? |
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02/05/2015 07:00:59 AM · #21 |
Was looking at an opening line, but it doesn't seem to fit the character limit: :)
Once upon a time two or three weeks ago, a rather stubborn and determined middle-aged man decided to record for posterity, exactly as it happened, word by word and step by step, the story of another man for indeed what is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal, a somewhat paranoiac fellow unmarried, unattached, and quite irresponsible, who had decided to lock himself in a room a furnished room with a private bath, cooking facilities, a bed, a table, and at least one chair, in New York City, for a year 365 days to be precise, to write the story of another person—a shy young man about of 19 years old—who, after the war the Second World War, had come to America the land of opportunities from France under the sponsorship of his uncle—a journalist, fluent in five languages—who himself had come to America from Europe Poland it seems, though this was not clearly established sometime during the war after a series of rather gruesome adventures, and who, at the end of the war, wrote to the father his cousin by marriage of the young man whom he considered as a nephew, curious to know if he the father and his family had survived the German occupation, and indeed was deeply saddened to learn, in a letter from the young man—a long and touching letter written in English, not by the young man, however, who did not know a damn word of English, but by a good friend of his who had studied English in school—that his parents both his father and mother and his two sisters one older and the other younger than he had been deported they were Jewish to a German concentration camp Auschwitz probably and never returned, no doubt having been exterminated deliberately X * X * X * X, and that, therefore, the young man who was now an orphan, a displaced person, who, during the war, had managed to escape deportation by working very hard on a farm in Southern France, would be happy and grateful to be given the opportunity to come to America that great country he had heard so much about and yet knew so little about to start a new life, possibly go to school, learn a trade, and become a good, loyal citizen. —Raymond Federman, Double or Nothing (1971) |
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02/05/2015 07:26:59 AM · #22 |
Personally, I won't be voting that way.. I am not a reader by any means, but there are a few books I have read. I don't know who half of the authors will be, as a matter of fact I don't even know who the author is or even what the book is about on what I submitted LOL.
Sure as heck will not be taking the time to go through each title to find out what the book is about or the author is on google either.
I will be voting on the fact of does the title fit the picture. Think of it as a free study :-)) I am looking forward to different processing techinques on this one, can't wait
I had issue with the limit of the title as well some of them were pretty long.
Message edited by author 2015-02-05 07:37:29. |
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02/05/2015 10:37:39 AM · #23 |
| No shot, no ideas, last day. Darned procrastination... |
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02/05/2015 03:21:09 PM · #24 |
| Got inspired. I'm in. This should be very interesting. |
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02/05/2015 03:28:28 PM · #25 |
I've found some awesome first lines that make me wish it was expert editing. And I don't even like expert editing!
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