20 First Sentences to Kickstart Your Writing (Part X)
Kickstart your writing with one (or all) of the twenty first sentences shared in today’s post. Then share what you write in a comment or subscriber chat thread so we can chat about it. Have fun!
Here are twenty first sentences to kickstart your writing:
They watched in amazement as the boulder moved from the entrance to the tomb.
Her philosophy about love had been wrong all along.
The attorney sat in the dank stairwell to take the call.
Waiting in the lobby was out of the question.
He was officially a graduate, but knew nothing about what came next.
“Your argument is not sound.”
An error is nothing more than an opportunity to try again.
The clothes were already on the line when it started to rain.
A woman scorned usually has only one goal in mind.
“I am already under the wire here,” he said, annoyed.
The dull hunting knives clattered to the ground.
There was nothing practical about what the auditor did.
“When’s the last time you felt pure joy?” asked the therapist.
It was too late to retract his personal essay submission.
Without thinking, she threw her phone into the bay.
The veterans needed proof, now.
What subject could you talk about for hours without stopping?
“This is what it means to be a real citizen,” the podcaster stated.
They had ample time to choose a different path, but they didn’t.
The chemist’s experiment had gone awry.
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