{"id":5596,"date":"2016-06-01T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2016-05-31T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T00:21:41","slug":"stumped-for-writing-ideas-first-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/stumped-for-writing-ideas-first-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumped for writing ideas? First lines . . . Prompt #258"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Vivi-with-book-2011-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5599 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Vivi-with-book-2011-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vivi with book 2011\" width=\"200\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a>First lines from books can make good writing prompts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.&#8221; <em>The Horse Whisperer<\/em> by Nicholas Evans<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 <em>The Kitchen\u2019s God\u2019s Wife<\/em>\u00a0 by Amy Tan<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I woke up to find the message in my left hand.&#8221;\u00a0<em> Lucky Man<\/em> by Michael J. Fox<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I drove up to the restaurant and parked, then leaned back in my seat to think for a moment.&#8221; <em>The Celestine Prophecy\u00a0<\/em> by James Redfield<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We used to stay in bed most of the weekend&#8221;\u00a0 <em>My Dream of You\u00a0<\/em> by Nuala O\u2019Faolain<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take care to chop the onion fine.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Like Water For Chocolate\u00a0<\/em> by Laura Esquivel<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=5293\" target=\"_blank\">Click here for more first lines for writing prompts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lines from books can make good writing prompts. &#8220;There was death at its beginning as there would be death again at its end.&#8221; The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans &#8220;Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The Kitchen\u2019s God\u2019s Wife\u00a0 [&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":[948],"class_list":["post-5596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prompts","tag-first-lines-make-great-writing-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-1sg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596","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=5596"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5605,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5596\/revisions\/5605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}