Opening Lines
What do the following passages have in common and how’s it relevant to your writing?
Have a guess and then I’ll tell you.
I’ll give you a clue: It’s not just that they are effective openings. It’s not that they rock. And it’s not that they were picked from my own bookshelf.
All of these things are true but there’s something else that’s far more important.
Answers on a postcard.
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have two haemorrhages ap…
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