Fifty original opening sentences in a wide range of registers — quiet, loud, funny, brutal, soft. Use one as scaffolding. Write under it for ten minutes. Then delete it and keep the paragraph. By the end of the toolkit you’ve written enough openings that the next one stops feeling sacred.
Topic Covered: Opening-line scaffolding; desensitizing the first sentence
Creatives Helped: Poets, Screenwriters, Short Story Writers, Playwrights
Age Range: 18+
Grade Level: College/Adult
Genres: Poetry, fiction, screenwriting, drama
Page Count / Duration: ~55 printable pages

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