the first line of yer novel

@torunn said
This thread has nothing to do with the Prose competition.

So you all are really going to be writing novels? Is this what you want me to be believe?

-VR

@very-rusty said
So you all are really going to be writing novels? Is this what you want me to be believe?

-VR

To take it from the beginning...

This is how we might start a possible novel.

Chocolate, chocolate! My kingdom for some chocolate!

@very-rusty said
So you all are really going to be writing novels? Is this what you want me to be believe?

-VR

He poisons every thread but what awaits him is the stuff of nightmares.

@ponderable said
The classic Snoopy:

It was a dark and rainy night.

Dark and stormy, in fact. To be precise:

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
— the opening line of Paul Clifford, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

By the way, has anyone here heard of The Bulwer-Lytton contest? If not: https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ , and http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html .

From his table at the fashionable Metropol restaurant, Richard had a perfect view of people walking up and down the small street connected to Bayswater Road.

"I say," he said, "have you seen this growth? It is spectacular!"

@shallow-blue said
Dark and stormy, in fact. To be precise:
[quote]It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the ...[text shortened]... ulwer-Lytton contest? If not: https://www.bulwer-lytton.com/ , and http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html .

That's a great beginning of a story!

@lemondrop said
He poisons every thread but what awaits him is the stuff of nightmares.

lemon what awaits us all is the stuff of nightmares, we will all lose people in this Covid-19......Funny how you try to stick with the little group in the public thread, not so much in the P.M.'s I've noticed! 🙂 Would that make you a hypocrite?

-VR

@very-rusty said
lemon what awaits us all is the stuff of nightmares, we will all lose people in this Covid-19......Funny how you try to stick with the little group in the public thread, not so much in the P.M.'s I've noticed! 🙂 Would that make you a hyporcite?

-VR

it was merely the first line of my novel
nothing to do with you

@lemondrop said
it was merely the first line of my novel
nothing to do with you

B.S. lemon and we both know it was directed at me!

-VR

@very-rusty said
B.S. lemon and we both know it was directed at me!

-VR

He was so distracted by all the noise that he walked into the wall and crumbled to the floor.

@lemondrop said
He was so distracted by all the noise that he walked into the wall and crumbled to the floor.

He was a nut job, that needed help but didn't yet know it!

-VR

Terry Busty crossed her fat legs with a sigh and cried.

@very-rusty said
B.S. lemon and we both know it was directed at me!

-VR

Whom the shoe fits...