First Line of NaNo 2017

Sage · Oct 31, 2017

Give me that brilliant first line! Just don't stress over it too much. After all, you have 50,000 words to write!

This is a sharing thread, not a critique thread :greenie

It's NaNo! Have fun!

Kjbartolotta · Oct 31, 2017

On my wedding day, I died.

Atalanta · Oct 31, 2017

Lethe stepped lightly from the rope ladder onto the soggy earth of the camp at Flooded Forest.

SianaBlackwood · Oct 31, 2017

I awoke naked, floating in a slurry of ice and jelly.

Beanie5 · Nov 1, 2017

Eilyfe · Nov 1, 2017

Kamala crept into the Rhilor pen.

glassquill · Nov 1, 2017

Seannil pulled her long coat tight about her as the small barge drifted closer to the abandoned fishing boat.

BenPanced · Nov 1, 2017

Brody tried to feel some sort of excitement as the ferry pulled away from the dock and quietly sailed across the sound to Harvest Cove, his childhood home.

edutton · Nov 1, 2017

Water poured in from the drains overhead as the rat steered his boat carefully to the sewer walkway, where his passenger waited.

lilyWhite · Nov 1, 2017

As the sun set over Garden City, Faye watched the horizon out of the corner of her vision, her eyes focused on her phone.

technoglobe · Nov 1, 2017

[FONT=&quot]Let me start by saying I didn’t mean to do it-- not exactly. [/FONT]

Maggie Maxwell · Nov 1, 2017

I'm working on a couple already-in-progress pieces, so this is several thousand words in. All the same, it's the first sentence of NaNo.

Oh, Ash was sure his father knew all about consequences.

Sage · Nov 1, 2017

The smell of smudged sage, essential oils, and every herb known to man is already giving me a headache when my obnoxiously cheerful, dead best friend launches himself onto my back and knocks me into the kiosk we've stopped at.

Sage · Nov 1, 2017

glassquill said:
Seannil pulled her long coat tight about her as the small barge drifted closer to the abandoned fishing boat.

BenPanced said:
Brody tried to feel some sort of excitement as the ferry pulled away from the dock and quietly sailed across the sound to Harvest Cove, his childhood home.

edutton said:
Water poured in from the drains overhead as the rat steered his boat carefully to the sewer walkway, where his passenger waited.

I'm sensing a theme

Lillian_Blaire · Nov 1, 2017

I noticed that—lots of water!!

The first sentence I wrote (but may or may not be the first sentence of the ms):

No one likes getting stood up, especially in a public place, but that's exactly where I find myself on Saturday night--alone and looking foolish in the bar.

LJD · Nov 1, 2017

Any minute now, one of Iris Chin’s relatives would bring up her single status.

BCAlexander · Nov 1, 2017

If Luisa visited a doctor in the morning, she would be perplexed on why her Fate was rated so high that day.

AshleyEpidemic · Nov 1, 2017

Blue tendrils hung from the creature's neck, waving grotesquely with every cat-like movement it made to parry my blows.

Anna Spargo-Ryan · Nov 1, 2017

On the day Alice Vardy disappeared, it hadn’t rained yet.

tenuki · Nov 1, 2017

Cold pavement.

thereeness · Nov 2, 2017

"You never showed up to help me escape my graduation, you boob."

(Yes, that's dialogue, I stopped/started in the middle of a paragraph XD)

folkchick · Nov 2, 2017

If you don’t make it that first day you’re screwed . . . forever.

edutton · Nov 2, 2017

folkchick said:
If you don’t make it that first day you’re screwed . . . forever.

I saw this in my dashboard and thought for a second you were talking about NaNo itself! :greenie

folkchick · Nov 2, 2017

edutton, it could definitely fit for NaNo, lol!

Shante_ · Nov 2, 2017

Being poor means sometimes you take things without permission.

First Line of NaNo 2017

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