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Tag: 7x7x7
Sometimes you gotta get the writing juices flowing with a good, random opening sentence. But coming up with a random sentence is harder than it seems.
So why not use the 7th sentence on the 7th page of a nearby book, and then write a 7-line story that starts with it?
For the last stream, we tried out a new exercise: the 7x7x7 exercise.
To do it, you open up to the 7th page of a random book, find the 7th sentence on that page, and then write a 7-line story that starts with that sentence.
The sentence we got was from page seven of Patrick Rothfuss’s book The Wise Man’s Fear: “Graham stood with his thick hand poised to knock on the door.”
It actually ended up being a ton of fun, so much that we wrote two stories, and chat contributed several amazing ones of their own creation.
Here’s what we came up with: (the stories were 7 lines long in Word)