Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:23:14 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
CC:  wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA Journal story stimulation?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:

> Many years ago I was on a writing forum somewhere (don't recall if it
> was usenet or fidonet anymore) and the subject of story openings came
> up.  In this, someone claimed that there were some story openings you
> just *couldn't* do anything with.  I disagreed, and came up with at
> least a couple of paragraphs for each one of them...and a couple
> might actually make decent stories when I get time to work on them some more.

Fortunately, there's a huge supply of such opening lines:
<http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/>

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