What's Your First Line?

Ha! I wish.

I was planning on starting at the beginning and writing out to the end, but because I only started to figure my plot out two nights before NaNo, I instead started in the middle of the beginning, and wrote another couple of bits from the middle.

But two thumbs up for yours! It is very Hitchhikers Guide-esque. Don't forget your towel!

Crystal

Synopsis: Kenna took off over ten years ago. Khale dreamed that he and Elenna were trying to find her. The last time he ignored his dream their parent's died. Khale and Elenna set off on a quest to find a sister they're not sure is even alive.

Here's my first line from Patriarchs and Plebeians. It may not seem very exciting, but here it is.

The sky overhead was dark grey in color.

"The last thing she remembered was the cool, rough ground against her left cheek and a warm, smooth hand against her own."

Annalisa was mad.

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"I'm so sorry Mrs. Leighton."

yeah it's short...but it's actually exactly where I wanted to start. I didn't start writing until 15 minutes ago. We'll see if I can get some momentum after the kids have lunch.

NaNo '05: I Wish I May (won)
NaNo '06: I Wish I Might (won)
NaNo '07: Have This Wish (won)
NaNo '08: Spinner's Web (won)
NaNo '09: Oaken Hearts (working title)

"3:47 am. I laid flat on my bed, staring at the clock in silence, watching as the little fluorescent light flitted again, instantly displaying a new time. 3:48 am. I had been awake for hours. I sighed. I knew this would happen, I told myself, it always happens."

Yeah, so it's a paragraph, sue me....^_^ just kidding, please don't

But I just wanted ppl to get the feel of my story at the beginning.

I am Alexira Julietta Marrion Antoniette von Schmidt.
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I know... she's got a long name........... XD it's pretty lame.....
the next two sentences complete it, really. "This is my story. This is my life."

Athens is really just a big typo. Y'see, "s" is right next to "a" on the keyboard. They meant to name it Athena, but the secretary wasn't a very good typist.
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Ya this is me. Wow, I'm so cool you read my sig?

"Thank you and F**k you," she said, as she slammed down the phone. ----edited here, not in the book

William Prater
Owner --Two Roads Cafe
Producer/ Director -- STAR P4
Founder -- Whedonites United

"I'm telling you, it's wrong!"

"'Uno, dos, tres, catorce.' That translates as 'One, two, three... fourteen.' That is the correct math for a rock and roll band."

"I was created in response to a challenge…or, more precisely, I was formed, shaped, molded, and separated in response to that challenge."

"Women frustrate men because they are too complicated. Men frustrate women because they aren't complicated enough."

"I was created in response to a challenge…or, more precisely, I was formed, shaped, molded, and separated in response to that challenge."

"Women frustrate men because they are too complicated. Men frustrate women because they aren't complicated enough."

Dream Love Nightmare:

"Sir Isaac Newton once suggested that an object in motion tends to stay in motion and, while he wasn't talking about the hearts of lovers or the minds of young children, he could have been."

"I can remember the first day like it was yesterday."

Yeah, a bit cliche, but can you do?

*gets back to writing*

I remember when signatures used to like... mean something to me. LOL, life.

I have cliche for ya:

"…7 …6 …5 …4 …3 …2 ...1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!"

*Back to writing*

Musician's Widow

My first line from A Switch In Time: God Save the Queen:

"Prying eyes are everywhere, that's just the way it is."

There once was a man from nantucket.....

no from Chaney's Scrapbook:
The girls were just sitting in the kitchen gathered around the kitchen table, spent from all the emotions of the last few days. The table overflowing with saran wrap covered dishesand tin foil, barely any room for elbows and beverages. No one wanted to talk anymore and everyone had vacant spent eyes to numb to feel.

my first nanowrite- and my first attempt at anything more elaborate than a grocery list. This explains a lot.

Jane

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There once was a man from nantucket.....

no from Chaney's Scrapbook:
The girls were just sitting in the kitchen gathered around the kitchen table, spent from all the emotions of the last few days. The table overflowing with saran wrap covered dishesand tin foil, barely any room for elbows and beverages. No one wanted to talk anymore and everyone had vacant spent eyes to numb to feel.

my first nanowrite- and my first attempt at anything more elaborate than a grocery list. This explains a lot.

Jane

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I am sure it will change many times, but this is where I started.

"At the time, I didn't realize it would be the last night before my life changed forever."

First line of The Empeddigo:

"It had rained in the night, and now the early summer morning heat was turning the wetness into a thick mist that blanketed the land. "

First day, 27% done at 13592 words! I'm tired now. Night!

If you're interested in reading some samples of my writing, check out afgrappin.blogspot.com

lynsouth - I really like your line. Sounds like a poem to me. :)

"As the radio crackled softly, the expectant police officer flicked his eyes toward it."

And then the world explodes, of course.

Kreebog, I'm already hooked!!

Golden Eyed Sailor from Kingsbury

"The cobblestone streets were slick with the recent rains that had fallen earlier that evening. "

P.S. Still working on the title

2008: Wrong Turn

"Change was coming."

Not the best sentence in the world, but it'll do for now.

'Antique'

The word antique is such an ambiguous word.

One of a very few lines I actually like.

They all sound so great, would love to read all the stories! End of first day and I wrote 1,861 words!!! Hooray! Here's my first line:

Her hand runs along the rough surface of the stone wall as she steps forward.

Good luck everyone!

"Potential side effects for testing on the brain included paranoia. John struggled to determine whether that was justice or irony. Either way, he was hesitant to volunteer for anything."

"Like every morning for the past sixteen years, I woke up, rolled over in bed and looked at the glass jar that held my heart. "

I am the very model of a modern major general.

NaNo '09: The Quinn (Won!)

"Oh God, I killed him."

That's great! hah I definitely want to read your novel now. :)

Peace.
Stef.