Hello all,
I'm a new transplant from the Bay Area nanoing here in the North OC. Each year I've done Nano, I've always been intrigued to find out about what other people are writing. So here's my question: What was your first sentence? I know we're all feverishly pounding toward our first day's word count, but I'd love to know what the first words were you put to paper. Here's mine:
"There it was, the unbearable cold had come calling again; the biting, hissing beast that wrapped its talons around her heart and squeezed."
-Amanda aka Lymbic
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Nov 1, 2009 - 22 45
Hi Amanda,
Here is my first sentence:
"This reminds me of an old case," said Alastair.
Nila
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Nov 1, 2009 - 23 01
First line: I’d fallen for a trap and led an innocent woman to die in my quest for revenge.
44,000 / 50,000
Nov 1, 2009 - 23 26
My first line is: It always amazed Chloe how teachers could warp time.
----------"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."
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Nov 1, 2009 - 23 50
Mine starts with the quote that contains the preliminary title, Shards of an Elder Time, for at least the first volume:
—Halteyn, First Magister of Girond
but the first actual line of novel is:
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Nov 2, 2009 - 00 41
“It's time to face the facts, Dej: these rigs aren't going anywhere.”
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Nov 2, 2009 - 05 52
Not great, but since I was stuck in pre-writing and got blank page syndrome. The words have improved a bit since I started!!
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Nov 2, 2009 - 09 23
Here's mine:
“Captain Jacobs’ is an honest and fair captain,” Megwin said. “He’ll treat you well, and reintroduce you to the ways of the sea.”
----------Happy Writing!
Katz >^. .^<
North Orange County ML
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Nov 2, 2009 - 09 29
You guys have much more interesting opening lines than I do! :)
From the prologue: The evening was a warm one, even up at the higher altitudes, in early
August.
From the novel's actual start: Amanda looked outside the plane's window as it came in on the final
approach to Albuquerque.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 11 55
Here goes nothing!
"It's up here. This is where I hide from them," the boy said as he pointed up to the ceiling in the hallway.
15,247 / 50,000
Nov 2, 2009 - 16 43
Well, I finally got started, and my opening is simply this....
"Kassidy!"
That's it! LOL :) I'm just glad I finally started writing.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 17 23
The girl was in her years prior to when she would fully blossom into a woman.
The beginning of my Regency Romance...
----------http://www.breaborderswritersgroup.info/
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Nov 2, 2009 - 17 29
Mine is: "My name is Josie McClaren and the story you're about to read is completely, totally, one hundred percent, absolutely true."
----------RILEY: Love is hard. At least with a werewolf you know what to expect.
AJ: You'd rather face a werewolf than deal with your own emotions?
RILEY: Basically...yes.
-"Riley Adams in: Zombies in Love, the Musical"
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Nov 2, 2009 - 17 43
It was probably the marijuana that saved my life.
(This really is the first line.)
-TS
(I feel the need to note that I am in no way promoting or condoning drug use, and this is certainly not a reflection of the opinions of the organization - this is just the first line of my novel. Really really.)
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TSEdiot
anaheim_ca(at)nanowrimo(dot)org
tsediot(at)gmail(dot)com
Orange County ML
Proud H.A.C.K. since 2007
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Nov 2, 2009 - 17 55
my first words:
"No one knows how exactly life started but what is known that at one point there was a spark followed by quite possibly a bang."
And then it repeats another 10k times or so. No not really.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 18 11
Fun topic! Here's mine:
"It seemed an ordinary Thursday morning when little Abby Sturman's backyard tea party was rudely interrupted by the charred, smoldering corpse of a pigeon plummeting to earth nearby."
(I should note that I am in no way condoning recreational pigeon incineration.)
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Nov 2, 2009 - 18 18
what about the sport hunting aspect of it?
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Nov 2, 2009 - 18 41
What an intriguing topic!
"Death is the best thing that ever happened to me.
----------I can’t help but letting the thought cross my mind as I gently poke at the ice in my Vodka tonic."
♥katie
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"I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw. I was naked for a day; you will be naked for eternity." - A Knight's Tale
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Nov 2, 2009 - 19 12
My first words...
Oh, my word.” Evan gripped Serge’s hand in his. He peered into the garbage dumpster behind The Hart and Hound, Los Angeles’s oldest --and most prestigious-- tacky anglophile dive. “That’s terrible. Who on earth…? That’s a perfectly lovely Armani jacket!”
----------Z.A. Maxfield
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Nov 2, 2009 - 19 29
"The fairgrounds at the town’s edge were rumored to be the most haunted place in the county."
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Nov 2, 2009 - 19 54
"I used magic to make myself normal."
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Nov 2, 2009 - 21 36
This will seem like an odd place to start, but you have to consider that I'm a rebel and have started NaNo in Chapter 3. :3
Of course, he should have known better than that even as he said it.
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Nov 2, 2009 - 23 45
Well I've kind of gotten off to a slow start, but here are my first words so far.
It wasn’t that Geneva couldn’t hear them, but they were tracking too many others for her to concentrate on their position.
Still not sure if these will be the first words of the novel, but those are the first words that I wrote down.
----------Looking forward to adding more ^.^
--Live Long and Prosper
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Nov 3, 2009 - 00 13
In the compact, square yard, a small boy ran along a dry, baked path formed between the chain fence and the tall hedge.
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Nov 3, 2009 - 06 57
My first: "Every year, things get a little worse around here."
It's a novel about work. How appropriate? ;-)
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Nov 3, 2009 - 11 03
"You walked in-to the party, like you were walkin’ onto a yacht…" - my MC is singing to a well-known song.
----------Hmm... rethinking it now that I see it alone.
"I ain't here to play Nostradamus to these people!'
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Nov 3, 2009 - 11 29
Good luck all, Here goes nothin'! First line:
"Grace had broken down in an unfamiliar car, in an unfamiliar town, on a deserted section of road on a stormy moonless night. "
Second Line: -_____
Yeah, I got a ways to go.
----------Author and Balloon Artist
http://airborncreations.net
You'll love what we do with thin air
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Nov 3, 2009 - 13 06
Nathan Hewlitt jerked awake; angry and bewildered.
[meh, not great but it is a start...for now.]
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Nov 3, 2009 - 13 30
Awesome first starts ladies and gents! I have to admit, at this point in the game I'd rather stop writing and sit down and read your stories instead.
Keep it up! It only gets more fun from here!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 19 04
Great starts, everyone! Day three and I'm rockin' 4 whole pages! LOL
Here's my opener:
The jack hammer pounding in his brain wouldn't let up.
Good luck to us all!
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Nov 3, 2009 - 19 59
First there was a light behind her closed eyes, but she didn’t open them for the sharp ache at the back of the head where she had been struck hours or days before.