Inspiration

I'm writing a lecture for a creative writing class at University of Brighton tomorrow and came across this in the wonderful Natalie Goldberg's Writing Down the Bones. I just had to share it...

Her friend, Russell Edson writes 10 short pieces of writing at any one sitting, and finds that when he comes back to re-read them, it's the ones that have the best first lines that work. Here are a few of his favourites:

"A man wants an aeroplane to like him"
"A beloved duck gets cooked by mistake"
"A husband and wife discover that their children are fakes"
"Identical twin old men take turns at being alive"
"Like a white snail, the toilet slides into the living room, demanding to be loved"

Maybe I'll set them this exercise tomorrow...