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50 isn’t very different from 49, I discovered the day after my 50th birthday.
Did the above line catch your attention? I just wrote it as an experiment.
When I started writing, a lot of courses told me that the first line of a story is very important. So, I cultivated this habit of noting or writing lines that sound interesting. And like so many other things, I started collecting them. I have used a few of them in my stories. But when I actually wrote them, there were no stories, only lines. So maybe some of them will appear in stories in the future.
Here are some of them that are in my collection. (Well, if you plan to write something, feel free to use them!)
The face in the mirror did not seem to be his own.
She could have been anything – a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant. But she chose to be herself.
The place was on the edge of the world where time seemed to stop and she couldn’t decide whether to jump or not.
I wish I could tell you that she survived.
49 years old and I have never been sloshed.
The wooden cabinet tilted precariously over the infant sleeping on the floor.
She knew one flashlight meant danger, two meant safety, but the guide didn’t say what three flashlights meant.
He was willing to be a winner, and that meant he was willing to cheat.
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