What is your favorite way to start a story/book?

Usually with a weird dream of the main characters.

Either i will do something random like "A pair of vampyres was chasing 17 year old Wyatt Thomas. (Again) OR i may do something more blunt like "This is a story; my story" but I've been wanting to start a new one out like someone is reading from a story book

It really depends on whose voice I plan on telling the story in. I like to make a prologue that is somewhere in the story as a precursor to the future or the past, and it's usually something that will come up again later. I don't always start with a prologue, but sometimes the problem needing to be resolved and the elements that will play a part in resolving it all.

The book I am currently working on starts with a funeral.

On a day when I have absolutely nothing to do. Like in summer vacation or when I'm sick. =3

A hook; a puzzling situation that will later be explained, or a quote.

Something that makes you wonder, and want to ask questions. The kinda thing that makes you want to read more.

I usually kill someone off. xD

Most of the time I start with a character looking back on the events that brought her/him to where they are now. It's always where said character is near certain death.

Either with a vague, dramatic prolouge or a humorous grabber sentence. It depends on the kind of story I'm writing.