Every writer knows the advantage given by a great opening line. Like here: “We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” “Marley was dead, to begin with.” “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” The best first lines provoke curiosity. What drugs? …
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Published on January 09, 2022 08:51