As I was considering what to write for this week’s blog, I realized I needed a break from all the seriousness of the last few weeks. Not that I don’t love the “conversations” and insights everyone has shared. But, at the core, I’m a golden-retriever kinda gal, and I gots to play! So today seemed perfect for a game I love: First Lines.
SO! Get your play on, folks, and share your first line—and ONLY the first line–of a project you’re working on. Fiction, nonfiction, children’s, short story…we love ‘em all. Now is your chance to test your line out on some readers.
Here’s mine, from a nonfiction project I’m working on:
It took an angry hummingbird to open my eyes.
Ready? Set. Go!
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I’m thinking about changing mine to:
“All her life, Moira Doherty had longed to see the places her mother told her about.”
Who’d have thought admitting to drawing skills would land her in an early morning rendezvous with a dying man?
“Mr. Monster’s best friend Elspeth worked in a flower shop.”
(Children’s book)
It couldn’t be her; she was dead, we had all watched her die, floating away like that in the swamp.
I’m thirteen years old and pretty tough, I can handle a rifle and my double barrel shotgun.
“BORN TO DIE?…BORN TO DIE?…BORN TO DIE? …NO…PLEASE …NO !” (Mary, the mother of Jesus, during a conversatition with God during a dream. From The Gifts-Part II)
There’s some serious talent showing up here! I like it!
My first line: Not in centuries had the mountains rung with such gladness. (YA fairy tale retelling)
Oh, what fun! Thank you all for joining in!
You haven’t worked it out? We’re all submitting!
(BTW I’ve got a really, really good MS…)
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One – The cop ushered me into the room and hushed the door.
Two – “What is your name?”
Three – It was 4:17pm when the call came in.
Jessica wrapped her jacket tighter to keep the crisp wind of the morning from cutting right through her skin as she walked across the campus.