Your NaNo Opening Sentence - 2016 Edition

Susannah Shepherd · Nov 2, 2016

They sailed in an eerie silence, all sounds swallowed by the fog enveloping the vessel.

It doesn't exactly scream romance, but never mind...

GeneBWell · Nov 2, 2016

(From the Prologue/Introduction thing):

There is a legend in the kingdom of Qwizeen about how the humans and the animals first became friends.

Mark Moore · Nov 2, 2016

Tuesday, November 1, 2016, 12:06 AM
Spellman Household
Riverdale, New York

Yeah, I started with a time/location stamp for my latest Archie fanfic.

jlmott · Nov 2, 2016

From the MG western that I barely started yesterday:

The girl and the boy squinted at the setting sun.

Mary Love · Nov 2, 2016

jlmott said:
From the MG western that I barely started yesterday:

The girl and the boy squinted at the setting sun.

Totally sounds like MG western--even the font choice, haha!

A.E.Fisher · Nov 2, 2016

For as long as I can remember I have been obsessed with travel.

A.E.Fisher · Nov 2, 2016

BenPanced said:
Somebody must have left a window open.

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

Love it.

kmayes · Nov 2, 2016

After the funeral Fulke pulled him aside.

CWatts · Nov 3, 2016

There was something endearingly naive about a country that called a few-decades-old fort a castle.

KateSmash · Nov 3, 2016

"The empress was dead and her bastard brother laughed for the cameras."

Eh. But it was the right thing to get the ball rolling.

Jason · Nov 3, 2016

The last hint of twilight finally sputtered below the horizon, enveloping the planet in darkness.

Josie Cloos · Nov 5, 2016

I refer to this opening as function over fashion:

March seventeenth nineteen-twenty two in America.

DavidBrett · Nov 10, 2016

This may move to be the opening line of the first chapter if the chapter that comes after it turns out to work better as a prologue, but here you go...

To say Horace Rathebone II was a materialistic man was like saying a dragon had a slight gold fixation; if there was ever an award for Most Miserly Workhouse Foreman, Horace was likely to steal it and have it melted down to something of more value.

PS: Yes, I'm late to NaNo, but I'll catch-up in no time!

Your NaNo Opening Sentence - 2016 Edition

Susannah Shepherd

GeneBWell

Mark Moore

jlmott

Hello, I must be going

Mary Love

A.E.Fisher

The first draft of anything is shit

A.E.Fisher

The first draft of anything is shit

kmayes

CWatts

down the rabbit hole of research...

KateSmash

this was a triumph

Jason

Ideas bounce around in my head

Josie Cloos

DavidBrett

Alas, poor Yorick, he fed me 'nanas