{"id":5293,"date":"2016-04-09T08:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T15:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2016-08-25T12:19:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T19:19:34","slug":"first-lines-make-great-prompts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/first-lines-make-great-prompts\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lines Make Great Prompts . . . Prompt #243"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/First-Line-Books.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5294 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/First-Line-Books.jpg\" alt=\"First Line Books\" width=\"200\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a>First lines from books can be sparks for freewrites.<\/p>\n<p>Read the sentence and then write whatever pops into your mind.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t over think it. Go with the flow and just write.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few for you to play around with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some time ago, when I was 6 or 7 or 8 years old, it would occasionally happen that I\u2019d walk into a room and certain people would begin to cry<em>.&#8221;<\/em> \u00a0 <em>The Lost<\/em> by Daniel Mendelsohn<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The phone rang<em>.&#8221;<\/em> \u00a0 <em>Booked by Die<\/em> by John Dunning<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Footsteps on the forest floor made a noise like paper crumpling in a child\u2019s fist<em>.&#8221;<\/em> <em>The Half-Life<\/em> by Jonathan Raymond<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lines from books can be sparks for freewrites. Read the sentence and then write whatever pops into your mind.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t over think it. Go with the flow and just write. Here are a few for you to play around with. &#8220;Some time ago, when I was 6 or 7 or 8 years old, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,105,342],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-freewrites","tag-just-write","tag-the-write-spot-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1nn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5998,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}