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Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
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mithenHow about this week, you share as many first sentences as you're willing from any/all of your WiPs? First sentences can be so brutal, it'd be nice to see some that have come into existence. Sadly, the only superhero story I'm working on is my Big Bang at the moment, and I can't share that, so you get non-comics stuff instead!
“Sami, you’re not going to believe this, I got us the sweetest gig for next weekend,” Kevin blurted out as his tag team partner got in the car.
(Shockingly, Kevin will later discover it is not actually "the sweetest gig.")
There’s a woman waiting for them, guarding the gate as though she knew they were coming.
(Ooooh, present tense. Not my favorite, usually, but I'm aiming for a sort of mythical feel, so maybe it'll work! I hate when I realize the tense is wrong because it is SO HARD TO FIX...)
And this isn't even properly a WiP yet, just a first sentence and a pile of ideas, but I'm gonna share because it cracked me up--the first line of the soon-to-be-a-classic "Piledrivers & Prejudice":
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young singles wrestler in possession of great talent must be in want of a tag team partner.
“Sami, you’re not going to believe this, I got us the sweetest gig for next weekend,” Kevin blurted out as his tag team partner got in the car.
(Shockingly, Kevin will later discover it is not actually "the sweetest gig.")
There’s a woman waiting for them, guarding the gate as though she knew they were coming.
(Ooooh, present tense. Not my favorite, usually, but I'm aiming for a sort of mythical feel, so maybe it'll work! I hate when I realize the tense is wrong because it is SO HARD TO FIX...)
And this isn't even properly a WiP yet, just a first sentence and a pile of ideas, but I'm gonna share because it cracked me up--the first line of the soon-to-be-a-classic "Piledrivers & Prejudice":
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a young singles wrestler in possession of great talent must be in want of a tag team partner.
