Friday Five First Sentences Challenge– 10/27/06

Here we go again.

1. There was no way in hell she was going to the opera.
2. Three hundred years had passed since the banishment of the War God and now the cracks in the world were truly starting to show.
3. Shaina had made up her mind; she was definitely, probably going with decaf this morning.
4. Bill was going to kill his brother.
5. 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…

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Friday Five First Sentences

It’s that time again.

1. She had waited so long her fingers fingers were numb.
2. The drip-drip-dripping in the otherwise peaceful afternoon was slowly driving Dale mad.
3. 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.
4. The secret was out and Tess loved a good secret.
5. Spider had picked up knitting in prison, or so he had said.

Now it’s your turn.

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Friday Five First Sentences — Back By Popular Demand

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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Friday First Five Sentences - 04/21/06

It’s that time again.

1. “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.
2. 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?
3. Somedays it just wasn’t worth it to log on.
4. It was really rather a long, boring story and this one is much more fun.
5. Suri stretched one dew-covered wing as she wiped the sleep from one half-opened eye.

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Friday First Five — 03/30/2006

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.

1. 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.
2. 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 her outfit from her ocean green slides to her brightlly striped socks to velvet pants and glitter barretts — she dared someone from What Not to Wear to approach her!
3. The problem was there were too many spandexed wanna-be heroes running around and not enough spandexed wanna-be villains; the villains weren’t sissies, after all.
4. Four little eyes watched through the window.
5. “Well, I can’t imagine you expect me to still sleep with you after that,” she scoffed and playfully pushed at his shoulder.

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Friday First Five — 03/10/2006

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.

1. 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.
2. Delaney was always the last to know.
3. 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 in the living room.
4. For Rose, it was love at first sight; one of those uniformed soldiers stranded in the airport with her would surely be Mr. Right.
5. Maureen so would not have worn that color with that leg cast.

Add your own in the comments section or on your own blog if you want to play along.

Happy writing!

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Friday Five First Sentences — 10/21/05

• 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.

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Friday Five First Sentences - 10/14/05

• 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.

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Friday Five First Sentences - 10/07/05

• Careful to hold her cross-bow high, Mia waded through the waist-deep toxic soup that was now the city of New Orleans; her green eyes pierced every shadow in search of her prey.
• “Remember when I told you the triple spy murdered the Falcon?” Red asked his crew, blue eyes not meeting any of theirs. “I lied. I just shot her.”
• An explosion ripped through the bus that had just rambled past Hanna but she just kept walking.
• And to think Jan had planned on staying home to watch CSI tonight.
• Bronwen stared up at the two pale moons and prayed silently for guidance.

Now it’s your turn…

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Friday Five First Sentences - 09/23/05

Hmmm…I need to get back into the habit of this…

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The mandatory city-wide curfew left Angeni and her kindred with practically nothing to eat — not to mention nothing to do.
5. Very few things were scarier than facing a dragon.

O.K. Your turn.

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Friday First Five Sentences — 09/02/05

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.

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Friday Five First Sentences - 08/12/05

Continuing The Friday Five First Sentences exercise:

Today it was really tough getting inspired.

• When you grow up with vampires, you learn there are some questions best left unasked.
• In this day and age of formula novels and movies, Loreli found it increasingly difficult to find good work as a muse and she so hated working with jingle writers.
• Lisa thought that throwing up probably was not a good beginning to a date.
• Jordan was fairly sure that when he’d gone to bed he’d had been human in species in structure.
• As security walked her and her box of desk items toward those big glass doors at the front of the building, Monica wondered in stunned silence how she had gone from fetching a chocolate chip mega-muffin to to this humiliating moment?

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Friday Five First Sentences — 08/05/05

O.K. This is getting harder…here’s my five for this week.

• Deputy Del Blake had a reputation — the kind that could get a gunslinger killed, but then she’d never expected to live til she was old and grey anyway.
• If she saw that big nose and those slobbery lips coming at her one more time, she was surely going to have to fake a sneeze, coughing attack, or death.
• Perhaps getting mugged on the first date was an omen of some sort.
• There was a bag of chocolate chocolate chip cookies hidden in Lucy’s desk for just such an emergency.
• The displaced Southerner stared at the poor New England kid behind the counter and in a strange monotone drawl replied, “Jambalaya is not a soup.”

To participate in this weekly exercise, write 5 first sentences to unwritten stories novels that are meant to draw in the reader. Place them on your own blog and link to them in the comment section or write them in the comment section.

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Friday Five First Sentences - 7/29/05

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 of writing. Here are my first Friday Five First Sentences:

1. Halloween and Mardi Gras were her favorite times of the year simply because they were the only times she could venture into public as her true self — wings and all.
2. Even the supernatural called her the Angel of Death; they were too afraid not to invite her to their social affairs and terrified she’d make an appearance all at once.
3. If she could pick one superpower to have, in her heart of hearts, she’d have the ability to cause the heads of moronic managers to explode with a single blue-eyed stare.
4. She was so sleepy that one of these seconds she was going to blink only her eyes weren’t going to reopen and what then would the board of directors think as her head slammed into the well-polished mahogany table?
5. You always think your self-righteous convictions can withstand any personal experience the world could fling at you…but the world knows better.

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