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[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
Thanks for purchasing my book about the 9 steps to become a successful meter maid.
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The End.
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There is an annual competition called the Bulwar-Lytton Fiction contest that seeks to find "the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels". The overall winner for 2013 was this: >She strutted into my office wearing a dress that clung to her like Saran Wrap to a sloppily butchered pork knuckle, bone and s...
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[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
''Jennifer stood there, quietly ovulating'' source: http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
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Once uton a pime--oops, I messed it up. Hang on, let me start over.
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La-a [pronounced La-dash-a] was a gonna be late to her noon hour home economics classes, but on a counta alluv the late night twerking she was making fat stacks and didn't care about that bitch ass course anyway...all she could think of was Jerome.
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"This is a long story and, in my opinion, a waste of time, but I'll tell it to you anyway."
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Here's an idea
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Thank you for buying this book.
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So anyway, the moon shone brightly.
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Normally, Madeline would never have continued slicing cucumbers for the tea sandwiches once the knife had been used to spread the margarine on the white bread, but whether it was the fumes from the Earl Grey or the way the lacy robin's blue curtains complimented the overcast sky, something just made her think: "YOLO."
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But the toilet wasn't flushing.
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My balls itched from the shaving as if Lucifer himself were giving me a lousy blowjob.
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Bob woke up.
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, so it was time.
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Your eyes are an ocean; your breasts are also an ocean.
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Everyone wonders what it's like to be me, singer extraordinaire, pop star, and excellent writer, so I will explain how I overcame humble beginnings as an ordinary heiress and took the world of pop music by storm, because I am great.
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Well this one time at band camp...
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On the first day of the new lunar cycle, in a small farm town somewhere in the Middle East, a promised child was born.
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It was literally the cloudiest day in Eve's life, and by 'cloudiest' I mean 'filled with the least sun' because she had stayed indoors, which is the same as not going outside where it was about to rain, as the weatherman with the awful toupee said on the morning news -- which Eve managed to catch earlier that day just ...
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The wind blew through the house a little faster than how I blow out birthday candles.
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This begins the story, this line and the ones that ensue. Sometime later, there will be more lines that will signify the end of this story, but those may only deceive, and end up being the middle. Afterwards, there will be lines of story that will inevitably become the end story, barring any plot twists. Shall we begin...
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once there was a guy called billy. billy was a bad guy.
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Hello, people of Earth, hear the mighty adventure of the mighty Roger Roger, the manliest man of the universe, and of his beautiful companion, Sally Geranium, as they travel space in their nuclear rocket. ^( I like pulp... )
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Mandatory inclusion. My mother drove me to the airport with the windows rolled down. It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. I was wearing my favorite shirt - sleeveless, white eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. My carry-on item was a parka. Sorry I couldn't help...
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"It's decided. We got a deal."
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The darkness of the night was my darkness, which were my tears. My tears were salty like the elixir of sadness.
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One of the great tragedies of history is that the Holocaust didn't actually happen.
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We weren't your typical band of misfits. See, we each had different special traits that branded us outsiders ever since we were kids. Now, as teenagers, and through an unlikely meeting, we have to come together, face our struggles of working with each other, and save the world.
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[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
In the aftermath of the Euchidian Wars, Dresdoks and Prelons alike came together on the fields of Breddain to shake hands and decide on the new order that would tie together not only their peoples but their cultures and their cities so that a Dresdok could go into a Prelon city without fear, and a Prelon could go into ...
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He was as tall as a tree that is about 6ft
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Ravyn Sapphire Icealena Darknyss run her elegantly painted nails through her lusciously auburn dyed hair and thought about her future; People raved and about her, saying that she was the young spunky heroine from the Prophesy of Ages, and that she was to stop the world from some grave, dark, evil, maniacal threat - bu...
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It was raining. Not a regular rain, but like a depressing, heavy rain.
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The vampire squealed in terror as the teenage girl ran at him like a fat kid after cake, as he turned to run, he could not help but hear her screaming "Bite me, please, bite me, make me all sparkly!"
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"You don't understand me at all, I'm not *just* a campfire." Edit: Meant to say vampire. This works.
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This is how it happened.
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You only have 6 hours to complete this novel before the book combusts destroying the ending. Now go.
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It was a night like any other, except it wasn't.
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The speculum glistened in the crystalline Chamber of New Beginnings.
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It was 3:30 on Saturday afternoon when the door to the Waffle House slammed shut behind me, creating a draft that smelled of grease and regret.
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"One time, ..."
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After finishing my prayers, I threw on my new L.L. Bean Comfort Fit ™ jacket and made my way to Starbucks to have a Mocha Frappacino ™ while I composed this novel on my new Sony Vaio™ laptop, which is perfect for browsing, checking my Hotmail™ account, and playing the latest Electronic Arts™ games.
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After all these years, it keeps being hard to be Honey Boo Boo, but here is my story
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So, Like, My twitter fellowers told me to idk like write stuff down like a book cuz I'm so funny all the time, so here is like... that book #yolobooks
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Dobby relished his groinsaw's roar as he withdrew the flesh-choked blade from the astronaut's ruined skull.
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John woke up on a seemingly ordinary day; little did John know this day was going to change his life forever, and his life would never be the same again, but John did not know this so he woke up thinking this was an ordinary day, which it seemingly was, but only seemingly because it was going to be life-chanching: both...
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Duncan Dragoncain was tall and strong and everybody liked him because he was honest, brave, and practiced chivalry.
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If you don't believe in the racial superiority of white men I want you to put this book down, walk outside, and into traffic.
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I scanned through the old text messages in my phone, again, as the boredom began to settle into a sleepy numbness under my thighs; I really should be getting more fiber, I guess.
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[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
It was a perfectly clear day, only a light mist hung in the air.
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Thanks for your 8 bucks, now go screw yourself!
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[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
This is the story of a man (though some of the people who knew him would sarcastically debate this) who did such unspeakable (and unprintable) things that a book had to be written about him, and that book just had to be made into a movie, to show the entire world how twisted and wrong the man was, how he should never b...
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[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
There once was a man named Bill who wished to do more things with his life so he went on a journy to do just that.
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Once I had finished a large mugfull of Folger's Premium Blend coffee, I logged onto www.HuffingtonPost.com and scrolled past the hard news to read about Kanye West and look at photos of fat people in Wal*Mart.
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[WP] The absolute worst opening line to a novel you can come up with.
*Heyy so this is my first noveeeel xD, go easy on me! xx*
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On a fine day.. Back in school, we automatically failed..
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The End. Wait shit
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"As the cloak of darkness ceased, it was if a vague hand cast it out westward..." This was the beginning of a novel I never wrote. I came up with it in like 4th grade. I kept adding and taking away modifiers. Often I didn't exactly know what they meant, I would just add them because I thought they sounded cool. Like "...
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They all told me not to write my story but I just HAD to.
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This is how the main charecters die
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The laxatives rush through my bowels.
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As he bit into the hamburger he thought "Hmmm, this is a hamburger."
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"It was like she was asleep, yet not asleep." Any sentence that goes "It was like [blank], yet not [blank]," is generally a no-no for me.
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Not one I came up with, but my favorite bad opening from an actual book "The sun went down like a tin duck at a shooting gallery"
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This is my story, subscribe for more minecraft
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The theme of the story is defined as this.
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Wow, you know you're a good writer when you can write badly!
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I've got ninety-nine problems, and she was definitely one of them.
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I tried my best, but this is all I could come up with.
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John woke up.
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Blithely I drift through my every day, feeling darkly alone.
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We always thought alien life would come from the stars, but instead it come from our butts; this is the story of the Extraterrasstrials.
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[WP]- Three people are sitting next to each other in an airport. One is Israeli, one is Palestinian, and one is American. Write.
Three men sat next to each other in an airport, one Israeli, one Palestinian, and one American. Each eagerly awaited his flight to be called, but in the meantime distracted himself with a Kindle Fire, newspaper, and Galaxy SIII, respectively.
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[WP]- Three people are sitting next to each other in an airport. One is Israeli, one is Palestinian, and one is American. Write.
Uriel looked around the crowded airport dejectedly. It had been a long and tiring journey, and all he wanted was a seat and a chance to rest his weary bones. He felt like he had been travelling all his life. *Ach, what wouldn't I give for a rest!*, he thought. *Wait, was that an empty seat? It was!*. The place was bet...
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[PM] Prompt me please
The newly elected president of the United States declares himself as openly gay, divorces his "political wife" and deals with the outcry.
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You awake to find yourself in some manner of incinerator or oven. There are partially burned bodies all around you. The door is sealed shut and there appear to be no other exits. You hear a distant *WHUMP* as a flame is ignited. *You notice a strange device on your wrist with a single glowing button.*
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> Thank you so much for all the prompts. I'll get as many done as I can tomorrow afternoon. :) From the sidebar: > Only post these if you intend on responding to a few within six hours of posting, otherwise it will be removed.
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"Not without my blender." He shouted.
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[WP] In an alternate reality, a student's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number. All your professors, fellow students, friends, and parents can see it. How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions?
Going into my senior year, I've become a bit numb to the number floating over my head. 3.479. Nothing to write home about, but nothing to be embarrassed about either. I still got an internship last summer even if I had to work harder than some of my more blessed peers. I still get some special attention. I am still...
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[WP] In an alternate reality, a student's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number. All your professors, fellow students, friends, and parents can see it. How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions?
*edit: Authors note: in case you're unfamiliar with weighted GPAs, some schools give you a step-up for honors/AP classes. So if you have all honors/AP classes and get straight B's, you'll have a 4.0 and straight A's will get you a 5.0. I included this in my universe.* You know, I don't hate them for it. My GPA wasn't...
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[WP] In an alternate reality, a student's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number. All your professors, fellow students, friends, and parents can see it. How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions?
4.0. I lived in jealousy. I worked vigorously, day and night. I sought the help of tutors, extra help, but to no avail. See, me and him spent a lot of time together in high school. We would hang out, talk about girls, and go to social events. But, he was always the good one, I was the one incidentally causing trouble....
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[WP] In an alternate reality, a student's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number. All your professors, fellow students, friends, and parents can see it. How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions?
Well, might as well get out of bed and look in the mirror. Please be good, please be good, please be good. All straight A's this semester? Fuck. I'm going back to bed. Fuck, I'm hungry. Don't want to go out, though. Anything in the fridge? Nope. Shit. Think. Just run to Whole Foods down the block, sprint bac...
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[WP] In an alternate reality, a student's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number. All your professors, fellow students, friends, and parents can see it. How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions?
Dyslexia is a death sentence. My teachers always told me I was smart. Really smart. Smart, but I can't read for shit. I was too smart to be in the stupid kid classes, too dumb to be anything else. I have a 1.6 GPA. I may have won the Science Fair and made people cry with my writing, but somebody who doesn't know m...
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[WP] In an alternate reality, a student's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number. All your professors, fellow students, friends, and parents can see it. How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions?
"2.1" I sighed. 2.1 was better. It wasn't good enough. But it was a start. I hated this system. Everyone could tell I was smart. Everyone always asked me "Why don't you try harder. You know more about this subject than any of the other students." I wanted to punch every last one of them. I wanted to say "If you...
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[WP] In an alternate reality, a student's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number. All your professors, fellow students, friends, and parents can see it. How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions?
[**Author's note**] I figured I'd give a shot at my own prompt. But just a shout out to everyone who's posted, great stuff. I like how some people have interpreted the number as a great thing and yet there's an understanding that some people can see it as an awful thing. I was in second term freshman year when they st...
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[WP] In an alternate reality, a student's GPA value floats on top of their head as a large number. All your professors, fellow students, friends, and parents can see it. How does this affect on campus relationships and day to day interactions?
I couldn't breathe. I cannot believe Danelle was breaking up with me. Dannelle, of all people. Just two years ago, she was a freshman with a 2.0 hanging over her head. Her GPA was so low that people didn't even bother laughing at her. She had a pretty face, and her father was rich, but everyone knew she was nothing. T...
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[WP] A time-traveller who is forced to relive a moment of great difficulty in his life.
***The marker changed to 5,433.*** He sat there. His eyes, forced open by the metal hands of his passive-aggressive death machine, stayed glued to the scene ahead of him. It was a bit comforting having the marker there. He could sort of keep a relative time of how long he'd been in here. Although who's keeping track? ...
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[WP] A time-traveller who is forced to relive a moment of great difficulty in his life.
Hey! /u/xdisk get in here!
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[WP] A time-traveller who is forced to relive a moment of great difficulty in his life.
I couldn't believe my luck. Here, still smoking slightly from its fall, was a time machine. It had fallen straight through the ceiling of the hotel foyer, crunching into cheap tiles a mere foot in front of my feet. It must have been a sign, there was no way this could be mere coincidence! The device was sleek and ...
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[WP] A time-traveller who is forced to relive a moment of great difficulty in his life.
It's happening again. The moving on so to speak. To the next important moment in my life. Wait. No please wait. Not this one. Not again. There she is. Look at her. She's as beautiful as I remember. Her eyes always stood out to me the most. They were this clear tropical ocean color, almost turquoise, but not quite. ...
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