First and Last Lines

Leah_Michelle · Nov 16, 2009

TessaBlue said:
From CotLM:

First line: "Fence!"

Last line: "Fence!"

I'm nothing if not consistent.

Tessa

Haha, I like that. Swinging it back around to the beginning

mystictraveler78 · Nov 16, 2009

First Line: (Of prologue) Andy Parker turned on the radio.

Last Line: There's more then one way to skin a redhead. :evil

Rebecca_Rogers · Nov 16, 2009

TC:

First Line:
Today was the first time I’d ever noticed the cottage.

Last Line:
TBA (haha!)

Leah_Michelle · Nov 18, 2009

Concealed

First line: When I was ten, I purposely seared off all my fingerprints with a scorched pan.

Last line: None yet lol

gideonna · Nov 18, 2009

The ML:

First: It was Ben who found the locket first, but it should have been me.

Last: "No." (TBC)

PoppysInARow · Nov 18, 2009

BAM:

First: If there was one thing he'd learned, it was to never trust a human.

Last: She must've imagined it, for a moment later he was gone.

oblivo · Nov 26, 2009

Hi guys, I'm new.

First: I didn't even have a belly button when I won the lottery.

Last: I laughed, and then I told him.

Wayne K · Nov 26, 2009

First: The last thing I wanted to do on a beautiful Fall day is help someone I hate rob dead people.

Last: Above all this, was the undeniable need to get high

Mad Hatter · Nov 26, 2009

Now that I have a last line...

First Line: God help me.

Last Line: If they had a problem, they would just have to deal.

goddessofthehunt · Nov 30, 2009

For my WIP, a short story that sort of a concept thing for the novel I'm working on.

First
Canberra near the end of the twenty-first century was full of crime, pollution and the homeless.

Last
"Duck!"

That last line is the beginning of my novel at this point in time, as this concept piece is kind of a prologue.

Poetoffire · Nov 30, 2009

Forever and a Death

First line: "When I was nine I had my first boyfriend."
Last line: "I don't know who puts them there."

They don't sound spectacular all by themselves, but the first refers to a pickled frog and the last refers to flowers on her father's grave.

vroth · Nov 30, 2009

I love so many of these first lines. I mean, not that the last ones aren't good, but the first ones make me so darn curious.

Anyway. WCTE:

First Line: To me, Dixon, Minnesota was not a place people just went to. They were sent there.
Last Line: “Never better,” I said.

lilymeade · Nov 30, 2009

Took me forever, but I finally have a first line:

If there had been any doubts in Abby Hill’s mind that cemeteries were, in fact, creepier at night—that it wasn’t just a movie cliché—they were gone now.

A last line? LOL. Give me a month. (That sounds confusing, but once I get past the first chapter, my writing skyrockets.)

Rebecca_Rogers · Dec 21, 2009

Bumping this, since I have a new WIP.

NW:

First: It was always believed I grew old and had children.

Last: I knew eventually I'd grow up, but today just wasn't that day.

*NeW*WrItEr* · Dec 21, 2009

First: The incessant ringing of my alarm clock broke through my heavy slumber.

Last: When he didn't understand, I showed him the pregnancy test results. "I'm pregnant."

lividseras · Dec 21, 2009

This is just from a short, my WIP changes everyday so until i can decide on a beginning or end i'm not going to post it. But i loved reading all of yours so... I wanted to post

First: Approaching the bridge all we could be certain of is that we needed each other.

Last: We step forward into certain death, but in the death there was a light, and in that light we were joined together not just in mind, but in soul as well for all eternity.

tengraceapples · Dec 21, 2009

Hey! Love this topic; )

First: He was falling apart, leaving pieces of himself everywhere he went.

Last:He was certain his life would suck until the day he died; which would be in fourteen minutes and seven seconds...

bclement412 · Dec 22, 2009

From Blue Abyss:

First: Crack.
Last: I prayed with all my might that it would.

Sage · Dec 22, 2009

Fireflies:

First: A single drop of water hits the duck pond, raised, even circles spreading out from where the water first dripped.
Last: I sign the portrait with a firefly in the "a."

misterjuvenille · Dec 25, 2009

Untitled WIP

First: I stood at the edge of The Disk and looked out toward the sky.

Rebecca_Rogers · Mar 17, 2010

Bumping this, since I have a new WIP.

First line:
I watch the stars fall from the sky.

Last line:
It hasn't fallen yet, but that day will come.

True · Mar 17, 2010

I love this topic!

Okay, these are the first and last lines for the novel I'm currently rewriting:

Beginning (the rewrite): As I pushed my bike through the street, a girl came up beside me, heading in the same direction as I was. She looked about five with short brown hair and bangs that clouded her eyes. I wondered what a girl so young was doing alone, walking such busy streets at an early time. “Does your mom know where you are?” I asked her as we turned a corner.

She didn’t look at me, and I felt kind of relieved. She wasn’t my problem and her lack of attention to me made that clear. But then she said, “We’re coming,” and my relief fell.

Ending (the original): And I hate you too, Bavol. For choosing to disrupt my life and spinning it into a circle of misery, then not helping me the only time I needed it. I hate you just as much as I hate Iskinder and Brahanu.

You’re all the same to me now.

Yes, by the end of it she does have a lot of anger. That's all for the next book, though.

Niki_G · Mar 17, 2010

Fun! Fun! I love these, so naturally I want to play.

Okay, I'm revising, but here's what I have right now (They'll probably stay the same at the end of it all--at least the first line probably will.):

First: I wore pink Converse to my senior prom.

Last: "Yeah. It's home."

perfectisafault · Mar 17, 2010

I love things like this!

First line:
"Clara stared at the display above the chalkboard."

Last line:
"Clara could feel them smiling back at her."

emma_kate · Mar 17, 2010

First Line of current WIP;
"Run..."

Last line;
And that made him worth fighting for.

The last line matches the last line of the prologue (from which the "run" line is from).

First and Last Lines

Leah_Michelle

Fangirling

mystictraveler78

Rebecca_Rogers

Leah_Michelle

Fangirling

gideonna

PoppysInARow

oblivo

Wayne K

Mad Hatter

goddessofthehunt

Queen of inane tangents.

Poetoffire

Professional Cynic

vroth

...yep.

lilymeade

Rebecca_Rogers

NeWWrItEr*

lividseras

Hmmm...

tengraceapples

bclement412

Sage

Our Lady of Parentheticals

misterjuvenille

Rebecca_Rogers

True

blue rain, na'vi dances, color code

Niki_G

Here I Am!

perfectisafault

emma_kate