Write the first line of a story you haven't written yet. Fingers crossed, it will catch on and others will click SPROUT at the bottom of your post and add a second line, a third and on and on! Watch for other writers' first lines and SPROUT from them too. If you need inspiration, go here for some famous first lines!
Examples:
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. – George Orwell, 1984
This is the saddest story I have ever heard. — Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. — Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Famous First Lines -- Words to draw you in to the story
Call me Ishmael -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. -- George Orwell, 1984
This is the saddest story I have ever heard. — Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
“There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.” – Holes by Louis Sachar (1998)
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. — Paul Auster, City of Glass (1985)
A screaming comes across the sky. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. — Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
