Wriging Thread: Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Clarkey — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:09:16

For anyone that hasn't checked out Leliathomas's first short from this thread, do so. A very good read.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Gnorb — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:25:18

You may be about to find out.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

shadowsun7 — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 11:31:55

@Gnorb: where's Monkey?!

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Clarkey — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:26:02

Hey Gnorb. I'd be interested to find out what happens when the door opens, if it opens at all . . .

Feel free.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Ozone42 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:47:37

I'll release my one-liner under a creative commons attribution license.

Actually no, I was just being sardonic. Feel free to use it however you wish, I don't care about attribution.

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Gnorb — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:21:24

The ones here. Actually, I was thinking about the possibility of using them all in one story. And you're right: I, too, doubt I'd come up with the same idea anyway.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

RightOn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:50:59

Gnorb, you looking for more or were you planning on using the ones here?

You're more than welcome to work off what I posted above, I doubt you'd come up with the same idea anyway.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Gnorb — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:40:35

Just read the entry, Leliathomas: it was awesome. Very dark.

(Side note: Would anyone who wrote first lines here mind much if I try the same thing? Linkage would most certainly ensue. This was an awesome idea, Lelia.)

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

leliathomas — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:08:14

I plan to! I figure I might as well. I write absolute tons, anyway, so I might as well put it to something that'll be different every now and again. :)

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Kamigoroshi — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:56:00

Don't tell me you're going to do every single one of them!? You are in a writing mood alright. :)

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

leliathomas — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:24:35

One down. Several to go. :) See what I came up with for Gnorb's opening sentence: Funeral Party.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Kamigoroshi — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:59:31

Here is another one.

People say that the best things in life are free, they lie.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

shadowsun7 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:21:44

This is the story of my first kiss.

Eli James
Novelr

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Kamigoroshi — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:15:59

Sandra's naked skin appeared to glow in the soft moonlight, her brunette hair black in the darkness of the room, her body graced itself as a peaceful yet almost lewd pose; she was beautiful enough that no one who appreciated women could deny her, until now that is, because she was dead.

Edrei Zahari
Footsteps in the Mirror

Not my best opening line for a story, but it's what I can think off in a minute. Fits a noir storyline nicely. Maybe I can think of other things as well.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Nils — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:01:35

But as I turn away from the window, even the endless slomo repeats of some lion pouncing on a gazelle on the new 70" Sony KDL-70X3500 can't distract me from the notion that I may or may not have slept with my mother — so, losing the mansion in the fire that still rages outside doesn't mean all that much to me.

Nils Geylen
NDNL

Great stuff. And,hey, it is one sentence right?

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

cooper — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:51:27

I knew it would only be matter of time before the letter, handwritten to support the serious nature of its content,my undoing or my saving grace, would arrive.

olivia
Wonderland or Not

eh I changed it..lol

sentences - to support multiple participants not multiple sentences. I can read really.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

RightOn — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:37:43

When are they due?

Ok, I just couldn't resist that. Sorry.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Ozone42 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:35:57

Wow, can't remember the last time I saw this many pregnant sentences.

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Clarkey — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:32:06

Having never cared much for interfering people calling on unfamiliar doors, it was with some degree of reticence that he climbed these steps and, knowing what his words would do, he took a single breath and rang the bell.

Andrew
mapforlife.co.uk

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Ozone42 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:11:59

"Despite being a relatively insignificant ball of gas in an incomprehensibly vast galaxy, when falling towards it, Jupiter is the biggest thing in the universe."

Alex
makesitgood.net

I am uncertain on the correct punctuation for that.

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RightOn — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:34:54

"That little voice in the back of her head was screaming 'Do not get near that van' but she found herself oddly drawn by the man calling to her from the drivers seat."

James
rightonblog.net

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

Gnorb — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 22:16:32

Line: Until I attended my own, I never quite understood why the word "funeral" started with "fun".
Name: Gnorb
Site: Gnorb.NET

Looking for creative challenge(s). Give me opening sentences!

leliathomas — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:40:48

I've been in a writing mood lately (see here, if you like creative writing--SHAMELESS PLUG OF GLORY), but I feel like doing something a bit different from the norm. So, my 9rules guys and gals, if you would be so kind, give me opening sentences to begin stories with!

In your replies, please include your name and a website address if you have one. I'll attribute you for the opening bit on my website.

No guarantees of superb quality, but I'll give it a go. If you hate what I create with your opening sentence, feel free to curse me. My writing is not genre-specific, so expect anything. I do, however, have a bit of a passion for science fiction and drama.

Thanks to anyone who takes part. :)