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    avonlea posted an update in the group Group logoWrite Now: 1 year, 11 months ago

    I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. That is. . .
    - Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (1948)

    (If you’re looking for examples. . .)

    I recently stumbled upon a Web site that lists some of the finest opening lines from books, which I think many of us would find enjoyable to skim through (just Google ”the-best-100-opening-lines-from-books”–it’s the first link you’ll see).

    So I was thinking. . .

    Maybe we could take the opening lines from some of our favorite novels and build our own writing from there. Not too much–just a short exercise of about a paragraph or so–the objective would be to develop an intriguing opening just by working off a sentence or two. If anyone would like, they may submit what they came up with here.

    Just a thought. :D