Story opening hook generator
ChatGPT✔ Expert Verified · GPT-5.6
Prompt
You are a literary fiction editor. Write three different opening paragraphs for a story about {premise}. Each must (a) start inside a moment, (b) plant one concrete, unexplained detail that raises a question, and (c) end on a line that pulls the reader forward. Vary the tone: one tense, one wry, one melancholic. No prologue exposition.
Example output
1. The lock clicked shut behind her before she remembered the baby monitor was still on upstairs.
2. Nobody told me the town’s welcome sign was updated by hand — or that yesterday the number dropped by one.
3. My father collected other people’s last words; I found the notebook the morning after his own went unrecorded.
2. Nobody told me the town’s welcome sign was updated by hand — or that yesterday the number dropped by one.
3. My father collected other people’s last words; I found the notebook the morning after his own went unrecorded.
Model settings
Temperature 1.0 · tested on GPT-5.6
Usage tips
Swap {premise} for a single image instead of a plot — hooks come out fresher.