For those of you who don't know, I am starting a novel! (eek!) Here are a few starting paragraphs to ponder. Message me or comment if you like them or have more ideas. I'll probably be posting a few more like them as I am struck by creativity.
Appetizer #1
The words will come. The words always came. He stood there for the longest time, waiting for the words to come. They hadn't yet. The blank page laughing at him from underneath his poised pencil was too much to bear. But, he had to do this. He had to apologize, set things right once and for all. The way he'd left things two years ago had haunted him ever since he'd left. These "hauntings" were growing more frequent now, and that's why he knew this had to be done today. He had to make the words come, because if he didn't, he'd be facing another sleepless night of tossing and turning and playing out in his head all the "what if's" and "had I only's". He was determined. So, he pressed his pencil onto the snowy white, pristine page and wrote the first words that came to his mind...
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Appetizer #2
"Run!" A voice from behind her shouted. She turned her head just in time to see her friend finish forming the word. Branches and leaves grabbed her as she tore through the darkening forest. How much longer until the trees emptied onto the road? Were they lost? It didn't seem to take this long to get into the woods. "I knew we shouldn't have come here," she thought, pressing onward. They had come on a dare, though. And she was never one to turn down a good dare. Suddenly, she stopped short. There was a light in the distance...two lights...headlights. "Look!" She shouted behind her. "We made it to..." She didn't need to finish the sentence--her friend was gone.
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