Concepts

Sometimes inspiration can come to us from books already written.

Here are some first lines from some already written books.


I was halfway down the drainpipe, hanging on for dear life. - from Fight Game by K. Wild


A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. - from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Nothing is so easy as falling in love on a long sea voyage, except falling out of love. - from Dead Men Tell No Tales by E. W. Hornung






Take a book off your shelf. Look at the first sentence of the first chapter. Write it down. Now write a story using that first sentence. Change names, locations, and dates if necessary. (names will most likely be necessary).