I said Missoula in the title, but anyone can post, I promise.
So, how about we share our first sentences? I saw this done elsewhere on the website and thought it was a good idea.
Here's mine:
"The mahogany box showed briefly under a pile of old linens."
There are grammar things wrong with it, but heck, it's Nano, I'm not supposed to fix it.
Trisha
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Nov 5, 2007 - 12 29
“This is the first day of the rest of your life.” I'm pretty sure that I heard that once in a song.
Ok, its two sentences...but oh well... :)
April
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Nov 5, 2007 - 13 57
Oh, mine is:
"Those who didn't know him called him the Devil."
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"That’s the last of it,” Marie said as she slammed the van's back door.
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Oops, sorry for the double post. I'd delete this one, but I don't see a delete option(??)
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Nov 5, 2007 - 16 58
I'll play, but I never know what my first sentence is going to be until I get to the end.
Here is what I have at the moment:
Fragile things . . . memories.
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Nov 5, 2007 - 17 47
"It was in the middle of the Chopin waltz when the big baboon started in to tap-tap-tapping something on a table behind the copper-haired woman in a yellow sun-dress."
It's not as "just right" as a first sentence ought to be, but all hell really is about to break loose.
Workin' on it.
Russ
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Nov 5, 2007 - 21 59
The boy sat on the edge of the grave, knobby ankles dangling one foot down into six, and wrote poetry.
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Nov 6, 2007 - 00 21
That is a very lovely 1st line, very poetic. Wow!