DAY 6
Today write the opening sentence of your debut novel: here are some examples to get you started~
"Call me Ishmael." Moby Dick, Herman Melville
"Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three hours." Brighton Rock, Graham Greene
"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Old Testament, Anonymous
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, if on a winter's night a traveller." If On A Winter's Night A Traveller, Italo Calvino
"LOLITA, light of my life, fire of my loins." Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
"Stately, plump Buck Miligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed." Ulysses, James Joyce.
"That morning I woke trying to recall the events of the night before." Untitled As Of Yet, Hillary Croxton
posted by Hillabean at 6:56 PM
1 Comments:
Hillary,
It's me...Bake. Okay, so I am lovin' your first line. A+.
Ummm, do you think that the authors who were giving example did any research? I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Moses, not anonymous wrote Genesis.
No? Clearly they are not good little Lutherans like you and I are! :)
Thu Mar 09, 11:07:00 AM CST
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