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How to Bleed in the First Line

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I like to study first lines. They have to be powerful: a few simple words that compel us to read the next 300 pages.

How do the authors do it? How can I do it?“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure.”— Albert Camus, The StrangerThere’s death, confusion, apathy.

The entire book is in that first line.Why so unemotional over his mother’s death? Why is being unsure so critical as we enter into the narrator’s world?“I am an invisible man.”— Ralph Ellison, Invisible ManDoes he have super powers?

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