First Lines · 30-day program

Write the opening you wish you'd read.

One prompt a day for 30 days, starting the day you do. Daily, but no streak shame, skip a day, skip ten. The point is the cold start.

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What you get for finishing

Thirty openings you would not otherwise have written, saved in your Room. Keep the best three. One of them might be the first line of your next book. No badges, no posts, no audience: the openings are for you.

The point is the cold start. One prompt, one opening, one day.

Today’s sample prompt

A door that won’t open from the inside. Whose door is it, and why are they still trying?

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