Building a Book: The First Line
Building a Book: The First Line | Unlike Edward Bulwer-Lytton, you can write the perfect first line. Or, frankly, don't worry about it too much.
“It was a dark and stormy night.” For years, this iconic first line from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel Paul Clifford has stood out for the right, and the wrong, reasons. But something truly comical about this line is that while almost everyone agrees that it’s one of the worst first lines in literary history, to the point that it inspired a worst-line contest sponsored by San Jose State…
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