Grod has an interesting project: opening hooks — a collection of literary beginnings. He [after a lengthy discussion on #wordpress a 95% probability for Grod being male was collectively determined] started small. But since the site got boingboinged, ie mentioned on the apparently popular blog that goes by that name, the number jumped up to nearly 300 within two days.
You can browse the opening hooks, submit one you appreciate, or vote on the hooks already in the database. I wonder, however, if many readers aren’t just entering the opening sentence or paragraph of their favourite book instead of their favourite opening passage of any book, even if they wouldn’t rate it all that highly overall.
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What do you mean “lengthy discussion”? Besides, you and I have chatted, remember? And yes, I am male. :-)
And All this time I thought Grod was a women :). But seriously I really like that project. And isn’t the point to get as many opening hooks as possible, not just the best ones, to really see what makes a great opening hook?
Whatever happened to Opening Hooks? The database is no longer accessible. I thought it was a great site, but I havne’t been able to use it in quite a long time.