First Lines · 30-day program

Write the opening you wish you'd read.

One prompt a day for 30 days, starting the day you join. 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

Anyone who posts at least 12 first-lines in their 30 days earns the Prompt Keeper badge. Anyone who posts 25 earns it with a small extra mark. Anyone who lurks and reads gets, correctly, nothing — which is fine.

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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