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First lines
Mar. 20th, 2006 11:48 amI never participated in this meme when it made the rounds, but better late than whatever.
The working title for the Jani short I'm working on is "Incident on a Small Colony." The working first line is:
The receiving dock stank of berries.
Memorable, elegant, evocative first lines--I have no gift for them. I tried one at the start of CODE, and if I had it to do over...I don't know if I'd have done it quite like that. The next three books began with short lines of dialogue, the characters already *bam* in the middle of something. I have developed a penchant for starting *bam* in the middle of something. If I ever opened a book with the weather, I'd probably keep it to two words of character's internal thought. Pissing rain. Or something similar.
The working title for the Jani short I'm working on is "Incident on a Small Colony." The working first line is:
The receiving dock stank of berries.
Memorable, elegant, evocative first lines--I have no gift for them. I tried one at the start of CODE, and if I had it to do over...I don't know if I'd have done it quite like that. The next three books began with short lines of dialogue, the characters already *bam* in the middle of something. I have developed a penchant for starting *bam* in the middle of something. If I ever opened a book with the weather, I'd probably keep it to two words of character's internal thought. Pissing rain. Or something similar.
