First lines from books can be sparks for freewrites.
Read the sentence and then write whatever pops into your mind. Don’t over think it. Go with the flow and just write.
Here are a few for you to play around with.
“Some time ago, when I was 6 or 7 or 8 years old, it would occasionally happen that I’d walk into a room and certain people would begin to cry.” The Lost by Daniel Mendelsohn
“The phone rang.” Booked by Die by John Dunning
“Footsteps on the forest floor made a noise like paper crumpling in a child’s fist.” The Half-Life by Jonathan Raymond
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