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100 first lines of novels

December 11th 2009 22:26
This list claims to contain the 100 best opening lines of novels (or sentences in some cases), as chosen by the editors of American Book Review.

I don't agree with all of them and think there are some others missing, but that's not the point. The list is a collection of first lines of published novels, and as such it is rather useful to writers who want to see their own opening lines in print.
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Start Writing Fiction at Open University

February 16th 2008 10:34
I do a lot of online research at work, and sometimes that leads to discovering cool writing links. The one I found the other day is too good to keep it to myself.

Open University offers a variety of learning material for free now, and there is a unit called
start writing fiction. Now I am a little past the start writing fiction stage, but I will give this class a go anyway.

In my experience, you can learn a lot from other people's mistakes, especially if you make the same mistakes yourself. For some reason, I find it much easier to find bad writing in my own texts when I found something similar in another writer's text first.

Secondly, this seems to be a good place to find other writers who really want to improve their writing skills. For me, talking about writing with like-minded people works like a charm for my creative output.

So, who else will give start writing fiction a try?
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