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First sentences...does anyone like making up interesting first sentences of a story? You can write your own story for a first sentence or two below, or submit some of your own first sentences for people to write stories for. And you can change the given sentences a bit to fit your stories.
1) It was a perfect day to plot treason; the blue April sky was shadowed only faintly by a few fluffy white clouds, the grass smelled sweet and hot and the birds covered our conversation with thier innocent songs, so there was no reason for me to be so nervous.
2) The dream left me spinning in the living room, spinning and spinning until all sense of balance was lost and I crashed onto the saggy purple sofa, right onto a purple parokeet who'd blended right in.
3) Laurel was so unnoticable that you'd think she couldn't talk, which was nearly the truth, but that didn't mean that she couldn't spin a yarn or two.
4) "Dragons are supposed to be nice!" he burst out, glaring at the hissing red demon who'd soiled his nice new coat of armor.
submitted by Amy G., age 13, PA
(May 2, 2010 - 10:55 am)
(May 2, 2010 - 10:55 am)
Can I use the first one? I might not post it, but I have a good idea to go with it!
(May 2, 2010 - 2:21 pm)
Sure, you don't have to post the stories you make up if you don't want to. I had an idea for the first one too, so how about we share our plots? Mine is about a girl in the American colonies in the mid-eighteen hundreds. I haven't gotten much done on it and I'd like to research the time period before I start writing, if I do start writing! I am the best never-finishes-person ever.
(May 3, 2010 - 12:51 pm)
"The boy is fine, sir," the young man said. (Kartani)
I set out for the woods at a walk, my backpack bouncing on my back, containing a chicken-and-cheese sandwich and small plastic bottle of lemonade, napkins, blanket to sit down on, Band-Aids, and iodine. (The Magic Carousel)
People didn’t know about the Myst Islands. (The Myst Island Stories Book 1: The Sea-horses)
And so, I bravely step forward into the unknown. (Big Fat Coward)
Tina Carper was an ordinary nine-year-old girl with ordinary blue eyes, ordinary wire-rimmed glasses, and ordinary dark brown hair. (A Year of Real-Imaginary)
These are all my stories, by the way. Intrigued by the first sentences, anybody?
@Amy G. Oh no you're not! I'M the best never-finishes-person ever! Although, that's not really something to be proud about...
Andy P. C. says goyg. I think he's talking about a gargoyle. That would be an interesting story, Andy.
~Wolfgirl67 signing off.
(May 4, 2010 - 10:21 am)
"My story is not an unusual one, compared to the hundreds of beggar children that littered the streets of London in my time." (She Love Me Not)
"The silence that blanketed the room seemed to add to the echo of the gunshot." (Chasing Daybreak)
"The girl's spirit is easy to break." (Dancing In The Rain)
"Sweet Mother of Abraham Lincoln, please tell me you're kidding?!" (Violet Is Blue)
^The above are first sentences of a few of my stories. Here's some that aren't mine:
"The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit." (Uglies, Scott Westerfeld)
"They called him Moche the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life." (Night, By Elie Wiesel) Please tell me someone else has read this...I'm in love with it! It's a true account of the Holocaust from his perspective and its completely heartwrenching, but amazing at the same time!)
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it." (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis)
"The Austrian horses glinted in the moonlight, their riders standing tall in the saddle, swoerds raised." (Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld)
^Read these books because they actually exist - unlike my first sentences above - because they are amazing! :)
Cool thread, also :D
(May 5, 2010 - 9:32 pm)
Me! I've read Night! Just finished it in English today, in fact. Hard to remember he was younger than me when it happened though...
(May 6, 2010 - 4:46 pm)
"The girl's spirit is easy to break." (Dancing In The Rain)
I love this!!! Can I use it?
Are the rest of your stories written? These sentences and titles really make me want to read them. Post excerpt?
This also goes for everyone else. I want to read them badly!!!!
(May 6, 2010 - 9:57 pm)
Um, sorry, but I kind of wrote my NaNo around that...sorry :( I'm just super protective of it, since I'm going to try to publish it after editing....farfetched, I know :) I think I've posted excerpts of most of those stories...probably :)
@TNO: Yay! It's really sad but I looove it :) We just finished a unit on the Holocaust in Language Arts (go figure) and I was supposed to read another book on it next year in ninth grade, but I got put into English 10 (grr....) so not only will I be the only freshman in a class of sophmores but I'll have to do Shakespeare instead of the Holocaust. Not that there's anything wrong with Shakespeare... :)
(May 8, 2010 - 3:52 pm)
Great first sentences, everyone!
But if there were a contest for people who never finish anything, I would at least be in the top five! (And so would Leonardo da Vinci.) I have an entire notebook full of plots, story titles, and characters, and though I've told a few of the stories to myself in my head, I've never put any of them down on paper.
This first sentence is from a novel that I'm on the ninth chapter of, but may never finish. I don't like the sentence very much and may change it.
1) A single blue-cloaked figure stomped through the thick snow in a tall, dark wood. (Snow Rose, a retelling of Snow White)
More later!
(May 6, 2010 - 6:33 pm)
Here are some from my stories.
1. "12," said Stacy. "Ha! A nice start!" I replied. (Mila's World)
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I guess I haven't written a lot lately. Here are first sentences for stories I want to start on here, RRs, perhaps?
1. I snatched my red T-shirt from the oak dresser. After all, it would be a crime to forget it today.
2. My Ziploc held two oranges, yet before, there had been 3.
3. Just by looking at me, you would know that I had orange hair and too many freckles, but not that I could time travel.
4. I still remeber that on Monday the 10th, on a sunny day in April, a little green piece of construction paper folded in half exactly 4 times was in my desk. Of course, I never imagined that it would change my life forever.
I'll do some of the ones up there, too, and help contribute to Amy G's round robins....
1. My feet, wearing my neighbor's shoes 8 times my size, turned along Long Run Lane and into the bakery. I kept stopping to wonder, "Why am I doing this?"
2. I blinked, hoping that maybe, just maybe, it was all a big long dream. I didn't own a parrot. It couldn't be right."Watcha blinking at?" said the parrot. I guess not.
3. Laurel would lean against a tree every day and hope she could tell the story, but nobody semed to see her. After all, she was unnoticable, as we mentioned before.
4. "Welcome to a new kind of dragon!" sang the tormenting beast, and soon the knight made a tasty side dish.
Hope this helps.
(May 9, 2010 - 1:58 pm)
This is from a story of mine. Its called "Responsiblilty Rules" I'll type the intro, and the first sentence.
Intro: There was no escape. Not from the pain, not from the demands, not from the world. So she decided she only had one choice.
1st sentence: Anna held the last shard of her mother's memory in her hand.
(May 9, 2010 - 7:42 pm)
"Murky twilight freckles my nose with unwanted raindrops."
"'Don't smiles at me,' she sniffed."
"'Oh and what are you going to do...conjure a donkey head straight out of the air?'"
^Here are a few that have been inspired by my life lately :)
(May 14, 2010 - 8:14 pm)