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This blog originally had a very specific purpose: it was a place to post prompts for creative writing during the time of the lockdown. Initially it was for the use of my writing group, as we could not for the time being meet in person - but it's available now to anyone who'd like to have a go at creative writing. I very strongly believe that writing is good for you: while you're writing, you're off somewhere else - you've escaped! So off you go - have fun!

Thursday, 20 January 2022

First lines of songs

Here are some first lines - could you use one as the inspiration for a piece of writing?

In the town where I was born...

Puff the Magic Dragon lived by the sea...

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again.

"Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm a man of wealth and taste."

When I find myself in times of trouble...

They call her the Queen of the Supermarket... *

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair...

At first I was afraid, I was petrified...

She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childhood memories...

Eleanor Rigby lives in the house where her mother was born.

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away...

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