Last year we had a fun thread for first lines (we also had a contest for all sorts of things, including the best first lines). So what's the first sentence of your NaNo novel?
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Taken out of context, that can be so, uh, misleading."You don't have to manhandle it, you know," screamed Charla.
Oops, sorry. I was trying to decide whether my novel's first line counted, since I wrote it b4 NaNo, or if I should use the first line I wrote for NaNo, which is much less interesting. I've decided that the novel's first line is okay 'cuz some people might not actually write the first line on the first day. The first line is (sorry for those who have seen it before):quidscribis said:Oh, what, you ask for first lines, but don't offer your own? YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! Fess up! Give it! Now! Or I'll steal all your ideas and use them myself! Or steal all your chocolate! Or, uh, something...
In a world of wizards, dragons, and heroes, one peasant had a gift that no one expected or understood.
He was a detective.
Alice knew the moment his heart stopped.
It was too cold to go out today.
Sean O’Malley decided to let the sheep fend for themselves.
“The sheep can’t fend for themselves, Sean.”
The ecologist C. Hart Merriam described driving from Phoenix, Arizona to the San Fransisco Peaks of Flagstaff, 120 miles to the north, to traveling from the equator to the top of the North Pole.