October 27th, 2006
Here we go again.
- There was no way in hell she was going to the opera.
- Three hundred years had passed since the banishment of the War God and now the cracks in the world were truly starting to show.
- Shaina had made up her mind; she was definitely, probably going with decaf this morning.
- Bill was going to kill his brother.
- Taylor watched in horror as the crack slowly crawled across her windshield, forking in the middle and branching out like two great arms in some desperate plea.
Now it’s your turn…
Tags: Friday Five 1rst sentences, writing, fiction, meme, bloghopping
October 20th, 2006
It’s that time again.
- She had waited so long her fingers fingers were numb.
- The drip-drip-dripping in the otherwise peaceful afternoon was slowly driving Dale mad.
- It had been terribly long since Shelly had been tired of rain, but now after 30 days, 13 hours and 22 minutes, she was tired of rain again.
- The secret was out and Tess loved a good secret.
- Spider had picked up knitting in prison, or so he had said.
Now it’s your turn.
Tags: Friday Five 1rst Sentences, writing, fiction
October 13th, 2006
So, I used to try to do “this thing” every Friday way back when (before I knew what memes were) as a writing exercise.
What’s “this thing“, you ask?
Is it some weird cult thing? (That’s a fair question from the few people who know I grew up in New Orleans and went to a few Voodoo rituals.)
Naw, it’s fairly safe, though mentally challenging. It’s good for the writer’s soul.
A long time ago, in a city far far away, I had a writing circle where I encouraged the group to write five sentences that could be the first sentences of a story or novel. The intent is to draw readers in, to make them want to know more. The first sentence of short stories and novels and articles should grab the reader and make him or her unable to close the book and toss it away.
So, the object of this exercise or meme is to write five sentences that could be the first sentences of different stories each Friday and share them by posting them either here in the comments or on your own blog and post a link in the comments that you did so.
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Tags: Friday Five 1rst Sentences, meme, bloghopping, writing, fiction, NaNoWriMo
April 21st, 2006
It’s that time again.
- “Do you actually read Shakespeare or is he just sitting on your shelf because you think he makes you look intelligent?” the snooty man asked.
- If all hell was going to break loos at the office, couldn’t it have had the decency to wait until Monday rather than ruin a perfectly good Friday?
- Somedays it just wasn’t worth it to log on.
- It was really rather a long, boring story and this one is much more fun.
- Suri stretched one dew-covered wing as she wiped the sleep from one half-opened eye.
Tags: Friday Five 1rst Sentences, writing
March 31st, 2006
O.K. We haven’t done this in a while either and since Tamara so kindly nudged me, I guess I’ll get on with it too.
- Sometimes The Con itself was so convaluted that it became unclear even to Izzy and Bastian exactly who was conning who or who had even started it this time which made it difficult to figure out exactly when to call it quits and how to tell who won.
- Somedays Matilda just wanted to drape herself in dark withering colors and on other days, like today, she felt like trying to fit every color in the rainbow in
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March 10th, 2006
I haven’t done these in a while. As reminder, here’s what this is about. Anyway, I decided to get off my lazy writer’s azz and do some. Hopefully this’ll kickstart some creative juices.
- Some days she envied the blissfully ignorant as they went about their daily routines of struggling to find a decent parking spot at the local Wal-mart or a sale on on iPod nanos.
- Delaney was always the last to know.
- Grandmother used to say that life was only good when the beer was cold, which is why, I suppose, she kept the keg in that fridge
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October 21st, 2005
- You never forget the first time you were fired; for Nora it had been an agonizingly long five minutes since her first time.
- That was when Lynn realized she had become the crazy old spinster who talks to her army of cats.
- One hundred years had passed and yet the Camerons were still goody-goodies in Angeni’s eyes; she’d have to do something about that this time.
- Jill rolled back in her chair and glared at Jim across the cube-aisle.
- The first rule of ghost hunting is never split up.
Tags: Friday Five 1rst Sentences, writing
October 14th, 2005
- Marigold’s transluscent rainbow-colored wings twitched anxiously as the cleaning fairy eyed the pigstye before her.
- Julie was damned perky if you woke her in the middle of the night — a complete contrast to her regular waking hours.
- Jana resisted the urge to shove that whole disgusting jelly donut into his secret spewing mouth.
- Established horror writer, Treaux Kincaid suddenly realized she hadn’t a clue about real vampires.
- “Uh,” was all Craig could think so say.
Tags: writing, Friday Five 1rst Sentences
September 23rd, 2005
Hmmm…I need to get back into the habit of this…
- The whole thing was a bad enough experience on it’s own, but the fact that she had to repeat the story to every new person she met was beyond agony.
- There’s always that one guy who you can’t trust to collect the money to pay the dinner tab and tonight it was Martin.
- Father’s Day was just another painful reminder that Louisa still hadn’t managed to get pregnant and after three weeks, she was beginning to lose hope.
- The mandatory city-wide curfew left Angeni and her kindred with practically nothing to eat — not
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September 3rd, 2005
Sorry this is belated. I’m on vacation you know. 
- As Jana’s professor began to didscuss the various strengths of steel and iron, she suddenly had a distinct moment of enlightenment.
- The side of the truck read “Frank’s Ruins Co — When you absolutely need ancient ruins yesterday.”
- Baby dragons drank quite a bit more milk than one would expect.
- The humming was growing louder and not in a reassuring sort of way.
- There was nothing quite like ending the night having killed a cave troll with the roll of one die.
As always, feel free to play along.
Tags: writing, Friday Five 1rst Sentences
August 26th, 2005
well, here we are again on a Friday and I’m like “Oh, shit! Gotta do my sentences!”
- One morning she woke up and realized she simply could not eat another bite of the institutionalized powdered scrambled eggs.
- He’d always heard that in the West you could become someone else, anyone else, and he intended to do just that.
- Morrigan’s sense of honor guaranteed her loyalty even when that loyalty was paid for.
- Time travel always gave Daylynn such a migraine.
- Really, everyone thought familiars were nifty until they got an overly chatty one.
Remember, you can join in the fun of this writing
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August 19th, 2005
Here’s the Friday First Five Sentences from me this week:
- The Stetson, the long black trenchcoat, the boots with the spurs, the crossed gun belts on her hips, all worked together to make the figure in the shadows a distinct contrast to the dirty skyscrapers and aircars of the mid-twenty-first century.
- Ceanna knew she could not return to her king without the head of the assassin as an honor price for the lost prince.
- Lucy shopped for men the same way she shopped for sunglasses — she liked them dark and fashionable with an air of mystery.
- Sadie was tired of people asking
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August 12th, 2005
Continuing The Friday Five First Sentences exercise:
Today it was really tough getting inspired.
August 5th, 2005
O.K. This is getting harder…here’s my five for this week.
July 29th, 2005
A long time ago, in a city far far away, I had a writing circle where I encouraged the group to write five sentences that could be the first sentences of a story or novel. The intent is to draw readers in, to make them want to know more. The first sentence of short stories and novels and articles should grab the read and make them unable to close the book and toss it away.
So, I’m going to start trying to do this once a week on Fridays from now on to get myself back into the groove
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