i usually come up with endings first. for me to start with an image at the beginning or early on is unusual.
my civil war trilogyl started with the image of two soldiers sitting on a dead horse drinking coffee. that became the ending scene of the first book (though they couldn't sit on the horse in the final analysis, alas ~ hahahahaha ~ it just wouldn't work, though the horse is still in the scene).
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i usually come up with endings first. for me to start with an image at the beginning or early on is unusual.
my civil war trilogyl started with the image of two soldiers sitting on a dead horse drinking coffee. that became the ending scene of the first book (though they couldn't sit on the horse in the final analysis, alas ~ hahahahaha ~ it just wouldn't work, though the horse is still in the scene).
last year's NaNo started with the image of morse and marithé going to confront the devil in the form of patient john fischer. this ended up being sort of the climax moment of the book.
so i guess it depends ~ generally speaking though ~ whatever i start with, i usually keep and build around.
~ and like you, i pick up a book, read the first line, flip to the end and read the last line ~ and if i'm intrigued, i'll read the book.
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