Your first sentence 2009!

"From a cermet engraving engraving found in Ro'Maeve C.E. 912, dated prior to the beginning of the Crystal Era:

Know all ye who gaze upon this stone that that I am Ing'alauche the High and Almighty, Lord of all the Zilart peoples, Savior of the Kuluu peoples, father of Prince Eald'narche the Visionary and Kam'lanaut the Righteous, and one daughter of whom let nothing be written."

"The boy trudged down the hall, his head pounding from a lack of sleep and coffee."

NaNoWriMo 2009: /50K -The Mind

"Thomas Reland entered the workshop that morning to find that Madame Kannard from the dance school just around the corner had returned for the dancing automaton she'd left for repairs."

I am writing steampunk, which is a completely new experience for me. But hey, so is NaNo.

"Nineteen years later, Charlotte fell through a lake."

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Eheheh, love yours, jillywilly. :D

"Kyssea strode toward the portal, her dark auburn head held high and her back straight as a board, her feet pounding hard on the grass as though it had personally offended her and was possibly wearing my face."

Coffee-related drinks consumed:5
All-nighters pulled:1
Wordcount:3504

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Dorenthian slid easily off Calec, his large dark brown stallion.

First line i wrote. Hardest line to write. Hell I didn't even write it, it wrote itself. I'm not even sure I know what the hell else is going on in the story.

"It started on a Wednesday."

My novel is called Wednesday, so it fits pretty well.

Untitled, 2006 (Lost, 16K)
Expiration Date, 2007 (Won, 50K)
The Verge of Darkness, 2008 (Won, 51K)
Wednesday, 2009 (Won, 50K) & Thirty Three Seconds (We'll see)

"Not quite halfway across the bay, but perhaps somewhere short of the exact middle of it, the water was disrupted by the wild of flailing of some object or creature."

I'm not so sure about this. But oh well. It's how I've started.

NaNoWriMo 2008: Fantasy- Forgotten Sunlight>Win!

Hey, it's a start!

Coffee-related drinks consumed:5
All-nighters pulled:1
Wordcount:3504

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NaNoWriMo 2008: Fantasy- Forgotten Sunlight>Win!

Perhaps I was a fool to imagine my life to remain uncomplicated and I understand now why adults yearn for their younger years.

"Kiroth..."

Ahahaha, and that's it. X3

I always try to give the reader a "HUH?!" moment with my first line. Did it work?

PROBABLY OFFENSIVE RANTS ABOUT THE FORUMS!

"Nathaniel woke up naked in darkness, the smell of ash clogging his nostrils."

I'm also doing steampunk for the first time Azzandra! Should be fun.

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'I’m not sure where this story should start.'

Ironic really... :P

"The sun was already setting as Evanna Kingruey made her way home, washing the towers of Compiteum in pillars of fading golden light."

Boring start, but that's what revision is for...

"My Name is Aurelia."

Short and sweet, to offset the extreme verbosity of the rest of the novel!

The hand slapped the picture down on the bar.

PS: You can check out the rest of Ch 1 in my Novel Excerpt.

2007 The Lieutenant of Fairies (won!)
2008 The Captain of the Dammed (won!)
2009 Black Dog (let the games begin!)

mine is:

Death isn’t something that is easy to understand.

Mine:

'They trudged through a muddy countryside, wet with rain and dotted with vibrant spring green: dewdrops on flower buds, raindrops sliding down newborn grass.'

Alas, the interesting parts come later in the paragraph.

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"The mood amongst the Royal Council could only be described as bleak."

2004 - A New Light (21,000)
2005 - Fallen Princes (50,086)
2006 - The Tribes (64,978)
2008 - The Blood Moon (50,603)

"It had been nearly seven years since she died, yet still William mourned her."

"The house was burning."

OhmygoshI'msodramatic. :D

NaNo 09: House of Cards

"But is she virtuous?"

(One character asks another, regarding my heroine. The answer, regrettably, is probably "it depends".)

"Let my prose be rebarbative and tenebrous; let my pennyworth of thought be muffled in gorgeous habilments; lovers of Basic English shall look to me in vain."- Robertson Davies

Booze and Rock n' Roll.

Intriguing first line, right?

NaNo '09 - Don't Ever Look Back

"A curse is not something to take lightly. "

My first sentence sucks...actually, I'll probably cut the whole first few paragraphs once I think of something better, but for now the first sentence is:

"Cora looked up when the bell over the door tinkled."

Elonna

You never know how far you can go until you start the journey.

There has never been nor will there ever be peace for this land; so long as the fields run with the blood of it's people.

"I could hear the church bell."

Weirdly enough it was the easiest start of any story I've had. cx

Isidore had been sober for three days.