Fiona Jordan couldn't count the number of times she'd heard fine mist used as a symbol of tranquility by novelists, poets, and other hacks who had never been on a small boat off Newfoundland's Grand Banks in rough weather.
What are everybody else's first lines?
What are everybody else's first lines?
posted by "Steve Smith" at 11:17 PM
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Tentatively: "To the end of her days, Mrs. Amelia Dupont would remain under the comfortable delusion that her lifetime of maternal wranglings bore full responsibility for her only son's religious adherence to the practice of writing letters by hand, a custom he famously maintained the first time he was shot into space."
The word "tentatively" should *never* appear in relation to a NaNoWriMo novel. Once it's in your Word file, it's as good as in stone.
Great first sentence, though.
I opted to start with my main character displaying his uncanny ability to misuse words:
“If he’s not careful, I think this gentleman is going to exactorate his back problem here.”
"He looked down at the blood pooling at his feet. "
Not sure where its going yet. But thats ok.
I started with:
thunk, that's the sound that an arrow would ordinarily make when hitting an oak door.
Haven't decided where it's going just yet.
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Somewhere, amongst the infinity of this universe, there exists a world where our storybooks come to life. It’s a world where noble dragons roam the skies, and evil demons plague the lands. It’s a world ruled by power, and controlled through battle. It’s a world where virtually every stereotypical fantasy genre convention holds true.
"There's an old saying in aviation that I used to give all my students during their training: 'You start with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.'"
My first line: "The Earth got used up."
My second line, and the first that isn't plagiarized: "As it happens, there wasn't exactly a ready supply of replacements in these parts, so folks had to travel a bit, and when the nearest places to look happen to be hundreds of thousands of times further away than anyone's ever gone before, well, things tend to get a little panicked."
The beauty of it, Mr. Smith, is that this thing isn't in my Word file. I'm doing this baby on paper.
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