Saturday, July 19, 2014  •  Prompt #76

 Following yesterday’s Opening Lines post, here are two more prompts with which to experiment. Choose one of these lines for the exercise.

• They say I’m not normal.
• The one place I can be myself is…
• The first person I told was…
• Something you should know about my sister…
• No one knows this, but…

 Further Writing

• Invert your opening sentence to give it an opposite meaning.  For instance, change They say I’m not normal  to They say I am normal. Write for 15 minutes.
• Change one word: The second person I told. No one believes this but…., etc.  Write for 15 minutes.

Group Writing Variations

1. Discuss what makes a good opening line.
2. Write a list of opening lines for each other.
3. Write for 15 minutes.