The Greatest Opening Line Ever Written

Today I wrote the greatest opening line ever written. I’d like to tell you that it was a beautiful moment and that epic theme music played mysteriously somewhere, and that I felt a moment of pure revelation. Actually, it was a fairly ordinary experience, but let me back up a moment.

I woke up and decided that it was not enough for me to talk about chasing my dreams. I decided that no matter what, I’m going to begin working towards my dream. I decided that this year, I will work to my life long dream of writing a book and getting published.

I was shocked to recently discover that it is already April. It’s incredible to me how the flies. And I haven’t made any meaningful progress.

The real shocking thing was just how many excuses I have made. I really can’t believe how many excuses I have been making.

“Oh I haven’t created the perfect outline”.

“I don’t have enough time today.”

“I’m too tired.”

“I’m not inspired enough today.”

“I gotta watch the news, can you believe politician so and so said THIS?!”

“Just a second, I gotta watch the season finale of Stranger Things!” (OK, so that wasn’t a total waste of time.)

Yeah. These excuses have been making their rounds all year. I’ve been stuck in a black hole of sitting around and working on minor projects, instead of going for the big one. Why?

Because I didn’t believe in myself enough. I was dealing with a bad case of self doubt the was threatening to go terminal. Well no more.

I refuse to be a spectator to my own life. I refuse to watch dreams wither and die. I refuse to live, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, in ‘the grey twilight, knowing not victory or despair’. I believe my time is now. I believe that there has never been a better time to get started on my dream that today This day. This hour.

I woke up and decided that it was not enough for me to talk about chasing my dreams. I decided that no matter what, I’m going to begin working towards my dream. I decided that this year, I will work to my life long dream of writing a book and getting published.

I sat my butt down. Strapped on my headphones. Ignored the fact that the news was on, ignored the loud chattering going on around me, and just got to work.

“Before the Breaking of the Worlds, before the War of Calamity, before the rise of the Unknown One, in a world untouched by United Nations Space Federation, a young girl saw the end.”

I just write that sentence. And let me tell you, I felt incredible. I think this is one of the coolest openings I have ever read. I really believe that. Just writing the sentence gave me chills.

This is only the start. I hope by the end of June to be finished. But that is not as important as getting up every day why the passionate belief that I am working on something important and meaningful.

Today I wrote the greatest opening line ever written. It was great because I felt it. I wrote something that was exciting to me, I wrote something that I was passionate about. I wrote the kind of opening line that I would want to read. There is no greater way to kickstart a project than this.