Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 25, 2016

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 8 years ago

    “Suddenly, a shot rang out!”

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    Say What? Premium Member about 8 years ago

    @#$% writer’s block!

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    Courage the Cowardly Dog!  about 8 years ago

    “Linus was sitting alone in the dark corner of his room”

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    orinoco womble  about 8 years ago

    I agree…we are often told that the first sentence is the hardest, while in my experience it’s Number 2 that’s the kicker!

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    paul  about 8 years ago

    And the president Donal Trump pressed the button to fire off the atomic bombs.

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    bigcatbusiness  about 8 years ago

    Writing poems is much more harder.

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    hcarpenter1  about 8 years ago

    at least he has a start

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    Robert Nowall Premium Member about 8 years ago

    What was Bulwer-Lytton’s second sentence?

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    gantech  about 8 years ago

    Truman Capote once sat in front of a typewriter (remember those?) for a solid day and only typed one word. When asked about that, he said, “yes, but it was the RIGHT word.”

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    uniquename  about 8 years ago

    “The hairball in the sink reminded Laura that she’d never see her dog Pritzi again”. My favorite entry of all time in the Bulwer-Lytton contest. I think it took third.

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    Chad Cheetah  about 8 years ago

    Didn’t you write that yesterday, Snoopy?

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    Kip W  about 8 years ago

    Michael O’Donoghue’s advice on how to finish a story could be useful here: “Suddenly, they were all run over by a truck! The End.”

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    David Rickard Premium Member about 8 years ago

    Snoopy should follow Chandler’s law…

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    BTO  about 8 years ago

    Tidbit #2: Bulwer-Lytton was also the originator of the now- cliche phrases, “the pen is mightier than the sword,” “the great unwashed,” and “the pursuit of the almighty dollar.”

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    dflak  about 8 years ago

    It was a dark and stormy night, and our intrepid hero maintains a lonely vigil patrolling over enemy lines in his Sopwith Camel awaiting the arrival of his arch-nemesis, the Red Barron, when suddenly in the French countryside, a flash of lightening reveals movement in the pumpkin patch …

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    neverenoughgold  about 8 years ago

    Second line should be “All work and no play makes Snoopy a dull dog”…

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    Godfreydaniel  about 8 years ago

    One of the most famous first sentences can’t be posted in this family-friendly forum. (No, it was not written by Snoopy, and it’s probably not even the one you think it is!)

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    Number Three  about 8 years ago

    Think about it. Snoopy is a WWI Flying Ace who goes on dangerous missions. I’m sure he can think up another sentence for his novel.

    Who’s with me?

    xxx

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    Charlie Fogwhistle  about 8 years ago

    From Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis (1922) – my all-time favorite opening sentence in a novel: “THE TOWERS of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.”.

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