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A different ‘first line’ game
Scrolling through Medium I noticed that some authors are playing a ‘first line’ prompt game; taking a first line prompt and building an extremely short story from it.
Soon thereafter I went into my Drafts folder. I try to do that on a somewhat regular basis to see if there are any unfinished stories worth pursuing and to delete some of the crapola. I haven’t done this in a while, though, so there was a lot in the folder. There were plenty of unfinished articles and stories as well as some that were finished and polished but which I never published because I was not happy enough with them or because they might be too contentious or too woo-woo for the Medium audience.
I was about to start deleting when I got an idea. Why not gather all the ‘first lines’ from all those drafts and publish that? Instead of a story from a prompt it would just be a whole lot of ‘first line’ prompts (which, by the way, anyone is free to use for their own story).
So here is my list of first lines from drafts that never got published:
I happen to believe that there is a very serious connection between luck and love.
Have you ever saved a human’s life?
Jeff and Cindy fell in love and then everything went downhill.
