Midnight First Lines

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oct. 31, 2009 - 07 50

The Jeopardy tick-tock music is playing in my head as Word awaits the first line of my novel ... which I will post right after midnight. What's your first line? After midnight, of course.
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oct. 31, 2009 - 08 00

She hadn't lied to her parents, she just hadn't told them the entire truth.

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oct. 31, 2009 - 08 06

It’s a story that everyone knows, even if they don’t know that they do.

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oct. 31, 2009 - 08 09

The gunshot went off like thunder.

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Don't ask questions you don't want the answers to.

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oct. 31, 2009 - 08 11

A little boy lay on a hospital bed, deep in an everlasting coma.

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oct. 31, 2009 - 08 22

Thunder rang out and lightning streaked across the pitch tar sky

Classic cliche. :s

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Every story has a main character.
Be the main character of your own story.

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oct. 31, 2009 - 08 48

The Infinity was a party-- a twenty-four hour party that never ended, merely moved from room to room and dancefloor to dancefloor as indefatigable servitors cleaned up the fallen drinks and splintered glass and puddles of unspeakable effluvia in the corners, offerings to the gods of the toilet from people who had waited too long before turning on the detox function on their datalinks and had purged the poison from their bodies the age-old way.

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Sorry. I'm old-fashioned in my writing. Long sentences spiced up with words that otherwise get left unloved on the shelf.

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oct. 31, 2009 - 09 35

Mine is not as colorful as most of those offered,

It was a busy day at the tavern, noticed BigBarbarian as he sipped at his ale.

(I'm going with generic descriptions of name until I can sit down and properly name my characters. Naming doesn't quite come naturally to me.)

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oct. 31, 2009 - 20 03

I don’t really know how long I’ve been here.

After that I added a few hundred words on top of that line, but still, it's the one I wrote at midnight.

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2008: Deviance - 50,009 words

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nov. 1, 2009 - 01 55

18 hours after midnight, I finally find this thread. Says a lot about my perceptiveness.

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“May I remind you,” Magdalena said tartly, “that he was coming after you with a sword at the time. And he was stark naked.”

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“You’re the ‘god’ here. Why are you worrying about questions?”

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nov. 1, 2009 - 02 41

>“May I remind you,” Magdalena said tartly, “that he was coming after you with a sword at the time. And he was stark naked.”

When you say "sword" ...

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nov. 1, 2009 - 04 48

They say clothes make the man.

So costumes totally make the superhero.

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nov. 1, 2009 - 06 19

Well, not really at midnight since I opted for sleep over writing but here's mine:

Quote:

It was like any other night, the tiger paced around the enclosure, looking for a nice spot to lie down and sleep.

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nov. 1, 2009 - 06 51

Year 2015, the world has never been better.

Uneventful, I know. Wait until you read Chapter 3. HAH.

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nov. 2, 2009 - 02 00

“You’re strong, I grant you that."

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nov. 24, 2009 - 05 18

So, are we doing a last lines thing this year?

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nov. 24, 2009 - 06 06

Notkieran wrote:
So, are we doing a last lines thing this year?

What do you think? There's usually a prize attached to it, but that's up to the MLs.

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nov. 24, 2009 - 07 34

I certainly think we should. Last three sentences?

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nov. 24, 2009 - 18 42

We would! I need to get an RSVP thread up too.

We're just waiting for replies from (INSERT COUNCIL) to see if can have the place! It looks all promising at the moment.

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