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Read the extract on the right, then use these ideas for your writing.

Here are the opening sentences from a range of novels. Try writing your own opening sentences !



Look at the examples for inspiration.

Two titles by Neil Arksey
 
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Opening sentences
by Nigel Hinton



Collision Course
The bike was a dare - not by anyone else, because he was alone, but a dare to himself.

Buddy
Buddy stole the money from his mother's purse just before he left for school.

Buddy's Song
The first time Buddy visited his dad in prison was a disaster.

Buddy's Blues
Buddy's heart was beating fast as he waited outside the office of the head of XS Records.

Out Of The Darkness
3.30 PM. TUESDAY 28 APRIL, STOKE ON TRENT, ENGLAND
"This child doesn't want to be born," the white haired doctor said, smiling down at the woman.

Ship Of Ghosts
There is blood on my hands.When I was very young I helped to kill a man.

The Finders
It all started on a very ordinary day.

Beaver Towers
Maybe none of it would have happened if Philip had listened to his father's warning not to play with the kite on his own. Maybe. But who can tell with magic?

The Dark Dream
In the dim light just before dawn, a dark shape stood on the cliffs of Round Rock writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk writers@actis.co.uk
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