The Dreaded First Line

Your first chapter, first paragraph, first line all need to be catchy, don't they? Otherwise, it'll be a lot more difficult to sell your story. So where do you get really good opening lines?

Unless one pops into your head right away, chances are you need to write the rest of the story before you can come up with an intro with good resonance. Here's what I do when I need to create a first line:

- Finish my story
then
- Decide what the theme of the story turned out to be
- Figure out if there's a way s