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the first line of yer novel

the first line of yer novel

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@very-rusty said
So your first line of yer novel will start like this?

-VR
The stubby, gray-knuckles couldn't force themselves to write their novel's opening phrase unaccompanied by a question mark.


everybody plays the fool
there's no exception to the rule

~ J.R. Bailey, Rudy Clark and Ken Williams


@rookie54 said
everybody plays the fool
there's no exception to the rule

~ J.R. Bailey, Rudy Clark and Ken Williams
Really, not even YOU? 😳 😳 😳

-VR


I entered the house I had just bought with mixed feelings, and I knew I had made a mistake - nothing was the way I expected it..


@Torunn
The field was empty except for one door on the ground almost hidden by weeds growing around it.


@sonhouse said
@Torunn
The field was empty except for one door on the ground almost hidden by weeds growing around it.
Sawgrass hadn't yet time to obscure its existence, not for a lack of growth, but rather because of increased raccoon traffic.


One day this man named wolfy came face to face with a racoon and didn't know what to do, so he ran.

-VR


a firm knock on my front door was the end of the beginning


Unprovided with original learning,
unformed in the habits of thinking,
unskilled in the arts of composition,
I resolved to write a book.

~ Edward Gibbon
English historian of Rome (1737 - 1794)

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@rookie54
I don't care if he IS a noobie, he screwed up


hello, jerry
hello, neumann


"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned," the man in costume sighed, "it's been three months since my last confession."


he knew she was the only one, and altho she had been gone for many years, she influenced his every move, every minute of every day


@rookie54 said
he knew she was the only one, and altho she had been gone for many years, she influenced his every move, every minute of every day
Wonderful.

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@Torunn
As a first line, that could be sarcasm🙂

The first time he was shot his vest saved him, the second time it was his nametag.

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