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First Line Generator: 100+ First Sentences for Creative Writing Prompts

Refresh the page for the next random first line. Stuck in a writing rut? Or just want to write something outside your normal genre? This first line generator provides you with hundreds of first sentences to rev up your imagination. What kind of creative writing prompts are these? These first line prompts are written in the…

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Can You Identify These 15 Opening Lines from 15 Famous Authors? | Writing inspiration prompts, Writing prompts funny, Writing prompts

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." We all know famous lines like these, but can you identify the classic novels they come from? The post Can You Identify These 15 Opening Lines from 15 Famous Authors? appeared first on Reader's Digest.

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What Makes You Want to Keep Reading a Book?

What makes you want to keep reading when you open a book? And what sort of things put you off a book at the start? Lately, I’ve been having a lot of conversations about what really grabs attention and in those first few lines of a book. Creating a question or a strong visual tend to help draw me in to a book the easiest. I was recently reading The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo and I loved the first line. It created the question and a strong, familiar visual. (And it gave me an opportunity to…

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paper cranes | Writing inspiration prompts, Writing dialogue prompts, Writing prompts for writers

The First Line #016 I give you the first line, you fill in the rest! Prompts are for anyone and everyone, but if you use them, please link back to this blog. Also, if you post something based on this...

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10 Awesome First Line Prompts for Writers - The Busy Writer's Notebook in 2025 | Writing a book, Writing prompts for writers, Novel writing

Need a writing prompt? Here are 10 awesome first line prompts for writers from The Busy Writer's Notebook from popular novels and a couple of children's books.

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Discover the Power of First Lines

There it is, a shiny new book, or perhaps an old, crusty one. You crack it open to the first page of chapter one and read: “Who is John Galt?” You know, the minute you read those words, that something about it is important, but you can’t possibly know what. So you’re left wondering. And that…

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