Your NaNo Opening Sentence - 2016 Edition

I'm using NaNo to write and flesh out chapters and scenes that feature my youngest character (that have been giving me FITS) so this isn't the opening sentence of the novel, but it's the first one for Sophie's chapters.

One of the shortest sentences I've ever written (and it looks so weird sitting there all by its lonesome self...) —



Sylvan and Pastoral are among the prankster words of the English language.

I've already taken my opening sentence out back and put it out of its misery. However, my blanket ban on editing is holding true! If I hit 50k, I'll probably be able to add to this thread

Inside her suit of armor, sweat rolled down Felisa’s scalp and back in strings like beads.

What a fun thread. First "burp" to come out as it were...

Crap!

^yup, that's it.

This reads completely without context, but my NaNo novel is springing from a short story I wrote, so basically I'm starting on chapter 3. I'll use what I need from the Short for chapters 1 & 2 after the novel's written.

Katrina hadn’t accounted for the complications of becoming visible, nor for her skittish reaction to being seen.

Likely taken out to pasture in December, but here you go:

“Of all the men I’ve bent over, you are the only one to get me back,” the portly
man sneered.

Well, I never EVER keep the first sentence (because I rarely write in order) but as of today, the first line of the new manuscript is:

[Character's name here], dressed in coveralls, has his face pressed just above the “Sorry, we're closed” sign, his long hands cupped around his eyes.

I was about to post mine, then realized there was a giant, honking, grammatical error in the middle of it.

So I think now I'll refrain from re-reading anything I've already put down until December...

Posted visiting hours on the Farm began at noon and ended at 7 pm, but they were rarely observed.



In quick retrospect that and the next 300 words or so (at least) are gonna have to go. But not until they count toward my word goal on the 30th!

The weak and dreary morning light seeped through the warped glass of the old windows.

:shrug:

I'm starting from an internal chapter, so, here's the start of chapter 5:

[The Businesswoman] keeps [The Priestess]'s revelation to herself, the awareness of potential power roiling around within her.

Somebody must have left a window open.

I'll take that seven-figure, five-book contract now, kthnxbai.

"In seven hours, I would be on an airplane."

I always feel like an idiot in the first person...

Kimiko stared at the endless array of trees outside the car window.

Down among the stalks, deep in the great groves, the edge of time itself seems blunted.

paddismac said:

I'm using NaNo to write and flesh out chapters and scenes that feature my youngest character (that have been giving me FITS) so this isn't the opening sentence of the novel, but it's the first one for Sophie's chapters.

One of the shortest sentences I've ever written (and it looks so weird sitting there all by its lonesome self...) —



Sylvan and Pastoral are among the prankster words of the English language.

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Ditto to what the goat is doing for NaNo strategy. And I finally have words again, so yah!!!!! I'm also starting in the middle because I was like "um...crudcrudcrudcrud" for about ten minutes tonight staring at the screen, then just said screw it and started writing where I wanted to. So this is in the middle of a pirate fight, and Aurora is already regretting her plan


Gods, the man was a brute.

(Resisting urge to edit. Must. Not. Edit.)

Bleh...

With gentle hands and unfaltering kind face, the High Priestess greeted each expect mother as if she was the queen.