Don’t get stuck rewriting your first line over and over. Knock one out with this magic generator, use it as a placeholder and crack on with the whole writing shebang.
Write a sentence using the following info:
time, person, action, location, activity
Here’s some examples:
On the first anniversary [time] of his wife’s death, Xavier Redchoose [person] got up [action] before the light and went downstairs [location] to salt the cod [activity].
This One Sky Day, Leone RossEarly in the morning, late in the century [time], Cricklewood Broadway. At 06.27 hours on 1 January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones [person] was dressed in corduroy and sat [action] in a fume-filled Cavalier Musketeer [location] Estate face down on the steering wheel, hoping the judgement would not be too heavy upon him.
White Teeth, Zadie Smith