Sunday, June 27, 2010

First Sentence Contest

SV Fair Jeanne under full canvas in Lake Ontario, Canada.
Bytown Brigantine, Inc.
Photo by A. Soens


In meandering through my bloglists, I came across this fun contest over at RaShelle Workman's blog, A No.2 pencil stat! She is giving away a few treasured items for the best "first line" from a work in progress. Since I enjoy her blog, I decided I'd enter. So here is my first line.

"My two cousins towered over me in the cramped storeroom with their knives inches from my head."

Pop on over to A No. 2 pencil and check the comments section of her blog for other first liners.

Editor's Note: First line is subject to change during revisions.

11 comments:

  1. Hi Melanie. Love the pic! Thanks for the blog mention. I appreciate it.=D

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  2. RaShelle,

    Thanks for hosting such a fun contest.

    Dale,

    Hmmmmmm.

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  3. Oooh, I love how you included your first line here, great one!! Mine was a bit generic, but I changed it on my actual WIP. *sigh* ;)

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  4. Elizabeth,

    Thanks for stopping by. Mine has changed and changed and sometimes unchanged.

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  5. I like your first line too!
    Thanks for popping over to my blog.

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  6. Taffy,

    Thanks, for the nice compliment and for stopping by here.

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  7. MELANIE, GET OUT OF THE CLOSET ... NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! (sorry, that was the first thing that popped into my head...)

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  8. Well, Single, it is a closet, so to speak. And you are right. They shouldn't be in there. :)

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  9. Sounds like some scary cousins! It's a good first line. Why someone's cousins (particularly if they're young cousins) would be threatening the hero's life is a question I'd want to find the answer to.

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  10. K.M. Weiland,

    Thanks. I'm going to enter a log-line contest and I think I'll use the first line, with a few words after it. Or not.

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