First Sentence of the Month

OK, here's mine - actually two sentences because the first one was so short.

Julia was miffed. Here she was, center seat again, on a transcontinental flight.

~Linda/ lindac
linano@mac.com

ML, SF Peninsula (quack!) *4th year!*
Regional Forum: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/282

First sentence actually written:

Today sucks.

First sentence of the story when I finally got to writing IT?:

Alta started to sit up, then laid perfectly still. Her head was throbbing so bad even that slight motion had driven spikes of shooting pain behind her eyes.

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut
2004 - Leena's Tale
2005 - 50K or Bust! (win)
2006 - Circling the Glen (win)
2007 - What Now?
2008 - You want me to do what? (win)
http://www.newworlds-rpg.

"The discovery of a death in a small community spreads a lot like the blood from a bullet wound."

The beginnings are always tough for me. :)

"High above the sky, the sun radiated onto the roofs below."
Yup, not much of a hook, but the good thing is that I actually convinced myself to do nanowrimo!

I was talking to my friends in MD that I was considering making my first sentence:

"“YOU COMMUNIST [/censored]!”"

Since they already started and was sorta sulky (I have reason to - the time difference was making me antsy)

I was considering changing it since, well, Feliks isn't actually yelling at the communist but the non-commies, but I like it too much, ha ha ha.

~::||Overconfidence||::~
Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you could survive the odds beating you.

Yuu_tan.InsaneJournal.com

OK, it deliberately sounds like Bulwer Lytton, it is a Penny Dreadful after all!

"In the same manner as many of the banking community in London upon the discovery of Gold in the Spanish dominated territory, California my father chose to seek a portion of the promised wealth for himself."

That which is coming towards you is coming from you.

"There is a man in a pressed suit – his tie is immaculately straight, his shirt bares no wrinkles, and his slacks fit perfectly."

I believe a book should start like a symphony - slow & soft. :)

My first NaNo and my first forum post. :)

"The kiss seemed as if it was never going to end."

So there you go, now where do I go? ;)

Jessica

All she wanted was a cup of coffee.

"It did."

"I rounded yet another broad curve, searching, looking, fretting. "

Over the weekend I went to a talk by an acquisitions editor for a major publishing house. He said "I always read the first line, that has to hook you in, right?"

Well. Mine doesn't.

Ah well, we save the edits for later! :)

Karen

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” - Hank Aaron

"It was all her brothers’ fault, really."

NaNo '08 - Triad: A Tale of Somnium (Won!)
NaNo '09 - Lessons in Falling, Lessons in Flying