Another excellent exercise was provided by Marilyn.
This is just a truly fun exercise to see how riveting you can make the first sentence in your story or novel.
Remember you have about 30 seconds to catch and hold your reader's attention.
Below are a number of beginnings suggested (you can replace the word he with she or it) and you can choose to complete just one and then continue with your story. If you prefer, however, you can simply write compelling sentences for them all. However, that may not take you all that long and you may wish to add to one or many of them.
He ran...
He flew...
He jumped...
He fell...
He writhed...
He gasped...
He screamed......
He battled......
He sighed......
He wriggled......
He escaped......
He ploughed......
He stared......
He leapt......
He whirled......
He danced.......
He hid........
He fought.......
He cried........
He swam........
He plunged.......
He yelled.......
He begged......
He beat.......
He appeared......
He smashed.......
He chose.......
He whined......
He drove.......
He manhandled.....
He changed.....
He died.....
He laughed......
He plummeted.....
Please share your writing exercises on this blog.
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