| shanegrila | Title and First Sentence |
    32,232 / 50,000 Joined: Oct 28, 2007
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Nov 1, 2009 - 01 42 |
Let's have it everyone... Title: Upside Surprise That's right. My first sentence is one word. I promise, the only one-word sentence besides "Yes" and "No" in the whole book. One-word sentences have no place in this competition. Long live the run-on sentence in November! Shane 48,614 to go |
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35,904 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 02 52
Title: Never Never
First sentence: (half a paragraph, sheesh....)
"Working men and women who will never put to sea, with the easy superiority that comes from a soft, an average life will sometimes laugh that the conventions of the ancient seafaring vessels are still observed among the men who now sail the stars."
35,502 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 03 31
Title: A Song of Psalms
First sentence: It was a dark and stormy night.
Yes I'm a dork but it's not like I can't change it later if I revise it to submit somewhere. :^)
Rolard
----------2006 A Hole in Andrellas (winner)
2007 Voyage of the Amadeus (32,111)
2008 Magic of the Highways (11,000)
2009 A Song of Psalms (in progress)
30,018 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 03 31
Title: The Log of the Crimson Lien
First Sentence: The Crimson Lien lifted into the sky, following the imaginary red line on Chuck's screen that Quincy had plotted during the pre-flight preparations.
I just cranked out over 1500 words this morning, and unlike most years I actually *like* these ones!
39,200 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 05 44
Title: Accidentally Perpendicular
First Sentence: The worst thing about this job, wonderful and strange and fortunate as it was, was that he had to get up entirely too early.
53,927 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 07 10
Title: One and a Half Lives to Live
First Sentence: The alarm clock went off at 6:45am that Tuesday morning as I awokem to the usual morning show hosts bitching about politics and reading funny news stories from around the country.
I decided to go with the idea of a fiction autobiography that is based throughout the Greater Cleveland Area. Yes, I will be describing various locations and it might require field trips.
----------"Then drop on the deck and flop like a fish"
http://aliencg.squarespace.com
FB: http://www.facebook.com/aliencg
Twitter: @AlienCG
41,686 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 09 08
Title: I don't have one yet. Sigh. Maybe one will come to me during this long long month.
First Sentence: No one really knows what happened to Alan Biggs, whether he slipped and fell into the quarry, or whether he jumped, or somebody pushed him.
----------"How do I know what I think until I see what I say?"
E.M. Forster
jaymontville.blogspot.com
40,210 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 10 13
Title: Ouroboros: The End is the Beginning
Lincoln High School was so painfully typical, it could have come straight out of a sitcom.
2,819 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 16 43
Title: A Boring Mystery
First Sentence: Medgar Boring was not your typical eleven-year-old.
40,119 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 12 34
Title: The Girl Outside the Window
First sentence: At exactly midnight, Oliver looked out the window into the darkness of the trees.
39,117 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 13 00
Title: Jonny Fathom (working title)
----------First Sentence: The old man walked alone through the wilderness, holding the gadget like a talisman in front of him.
Meekrat Entertainment Group (My story from 2008 is somewhere on the site)
39,117 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 13 00
I am terribly sorry about this double-post.
----------Meekrat Entertainment Group (My story from 2008 is somewhere on the site)
21,407 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 16 14
Title: The Drifter (tentative)
First Sentence: Sometimes it was thin.
Intentionally vague for the first thousand words or so.
10,090 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 17 35
I don't have a title yet.
First sentence: From: James Franklin
...okay, first actual sentence: This journal came across my desk today.
Yes, it's starting with an interoffice memo. :)
5,706 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 18 38
Hehe. MIne starts with an excerpt from a diary.
Title: What Verina Did
First Sentence: Nothing else could happen, right?
Oh she is so wrong. So dead wrong. *giggles* Okay, I'm too tired. My morbid humor is showing.
----------my mom says i'm Quirky. you can just call me Weird.
~
http://starsunite.blogspot.com/2009/10/nanowrimo-in-beginning.html
5,706 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 18 42
Crap, sorry about the double.
----------my mom says i'm Quirky. you can just call me Weird.
~
http://starsunite.blogspot.com/2009/10/nanowrimo-in-beginning.html
48,212 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 18 41
Title: Morgue Mates
First Sentance: No stars could be seen in the dark night sky from the streets that were deep in New York City.
Surprisingly... I'm not entirely hating this beginning... And I normally don't LIKE my beginnings.
46,111 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 18 57
I started at midnight, and wrote 340 words before bed. When I woke up this morning I realized I was writing the wrong novel, and had it buzzing in my head all through church. Which is bad if you're the preacher! Still, I got 3141 written, and I am much happier.
Title: Crash Bang Boom
First Sentence: The smell was the first thing to hit him.
----------"Writers aren't exactly people.... they're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
38,896 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 20 21
Wow, everyone's first sentences are so good!
My novel is untitled for the time being. Eventually that perfect title will hit me, I just need to spend more time with the story first.
First sentence: I have spent many, many summers on this earth.
----------"Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important." -Jacob Jankowski
2007 - Ms. Harper (won)
2008 - Perfectly Accidental (won)
2009 - as yet untitled
40,235 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 09 22
Title ?
First sentence -
Coventry Kosher Poultry Market was set back from Coventry Road behind a cracked and pitted expanse of asphalt.
Decided to set it in a land I remember vividly - Coventry in 1972.
35,019 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 11 03
Title: Mayday March
First Sentence: Tom March hoped that the refrigerator would give up soon.
My opening scene features a man literally fighting a refrigerator.
----------28,942 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 13 50
Title: Caveat Astra
First Sentence: "What in the hell is this, Harry!?" yelled Mika as she rounded the door to his bunk.
14,109 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 13 50
Title: Fin. (yes, I have punctuation in my title. Pretentious bastard.)
Opening sentence: The rising sun painted the harbor waters of the horseshoe island crimson, freshly spilt blood pooling in the gaping maw of an urban megalodon.
...I kind of don't like it. The description that follows is more to my liking, though.
----------BRRINT
too much words
14,109 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 13 52
First Sentence: Tom March hoped that the refrigerator would give up soon.
My opening scene features a man literally fighting a refrigerator.
I want to read this book. :) ----------
BRRINT
too much words
29,788 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 15 57
Title: don't have one of those yet, but I do have a plot!
First sentence: "Another.fucking.Indian."
(to clarify: my male character has just been cast as an Indian in his elementary school play for the fifth year running. it connects to a Halloween scene later involving his choice of dressing as Scott Pilgrim.)
21,321 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 17 04
Title: The times and adventures of Jack P. Noble
Fist Sentence: Clink clink clink
XD First sentence fail.
----------Enthusiasm: 30%
Energy: 0%
Concentration: 60%
Sanity: .4%
Best Daily Word count: 5,000
MC status: Not even god can save him now...
17,027 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 18 47
Got a bit of a delay in starting, but I'm on my way to catching up.
Title: untitled, but the file name is "family"
First sentence: A beige sedan was parked outside when Josephine got home, and a woman sitting in the driver's seat, watching the door.
I've done worse opening lines, I think.
----------- Serena
25,950 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 19 11
Title: untitled
first sentence: If I would of known it was
going to turn out like this; I wouldn't have
bothered, But I couldn't help myself.
13,986 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 19 30
Title: Villainous
First sentence: Contrary to popular belief, skulking in the shadows is an excellent way to get yourself noticed.
5,159 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 23 35
My title: Moving Mountains
First Sentence: CLING!
Sorry to those of you who prefer the run on sentence.
I am just someone who prefers thinking before I type sometimes...it seems to help limit the amount of effort needed for revision and editing.
----------<~*Daniel James*~>
28,942 / 50,000
Nov 4, 2009 - 11 01
And yet you managed to write a passive-aggressive comment, presumably after careful consideration, which applies to nary an opening sentence on this page.
Well done! Or perhaps I missed the joke?