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Some genuinely great novels start badly. Clunky, overwritten, or just trying much too hard.
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First Lines Club
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Nishant Kumar
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Openings. The sentence that buys the paragraph, that buys the page, that buys the book. Post one without the title and let people guess. This is a Chaptra house club — set up and moderated by us to get the conversation going. Open to everyone; jump in anywhere.
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Worst opening line in a book you otherwise love
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Book Desk: a lot of great genre novels open badly because the first line is doing marketing rather than writing. The book relaxes by page three and gets much better.