An Opening Line
All Books Start with That Perfect First Line
2 min readApr 13, 2024
The best dreams, at least the more interesting ones, come after I’ve been up for a while. This morning provided me with an opening line for a book.
It was this: It was an interesting life. I lay there in a half-stupefied state, marveling at the promise of the line. It was a marvelous life. It was an interesting life. My life was…