Can You Spot a Killer First Line?: First Line Game

Writing Craft
2011
Featuring Boyd Morrison, Brett Battles, Eric Stone, Jonathan Hayes, Stefanie Pintoff, Will Lavender

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Boyd Morrison, Brett Battles, Eric Stone, Jonathan Hayes, Stefanie Pintoff, and Will Lavender host an interactive game built around one of the hardest parts of writing, the opening line. Audience members must decide whether a first line is real or invented, revealing what makes an opening feel authentic, compelling, and impossible to ignore.

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