FIRST LINES FROM MY BOOKS
First Lines from My Books:
The Heart of the Matter (novel): "I want everybody to pray that God will give me a mommy," little Brady said in a heart-tugging, grown-up way.
Kiss the (Cook) Bride (novella "Angel Food"): Angel Morgan still couldn't believe her good fortune.
Wedded Bliss (novella "Reunited"): Tonight I'm asking Jake to move out.
Room At the Inn (novella "Orange Blossom Christmas"): The phone rang just as Landon Michael popped a cold capsule in his mouth and washed it down with a glass of juice squeezed from oranges picked from his own grove.
The Tender Heart (novel): For the first time, Sebbie Hanford left herself out of the count as she prepared breakfast for her mother and four sisters.
Church in the Wildwood (novella "Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy"):
Sitting on a grassy knoll overlooking her grandfather's church in the verdant valley below, Shirley Campbell smoothed her serviceable brown skirts and replaced a hairpin in the chignon high atop her head.
Sweet Liberty (novella "Free Indeed"): Two important days have shaped my future, and they both had to do with freedom. I'll never forget the first day as long as I live.
American Dream (novella "I Take Thee, A Stranger"): "Oh, Galen, please don't die," Corinn McCauley said, hovering over the still form of her husband, wiping his brow with a wet cloth.
posted by Kristy Dykes @ 10:41 AM
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3 Comments:
Those are some catchy first lines.
Thanks for your comments, Cherie. You know, those just "flowed out of me," as writers say. I didn't struggle over them and scrap them and start over, ad infinitum. But with my present story, I've started over so many times, I've stopped counting. The longer I write, the harder it is. You'd think it would get easier! Well, in some ways it does. Still, though, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to write and create. Maybe it's that there's more pressure to produce "something really good" and do your absolute best. Or, maybe it's that you keep learning the longer you write, and so you want to make sure you're incorporating all the new things.
Thanks for your comments, Cherie. You know, those just "flowed out of me," as writers say. I didn't struggle over them and scrap them and start over, ad infinitum. But with my present story, I've started over so many times, I've stopped counting. The longer I write, the harder it is. You'd think it would get easier! Well, in some ways it does. Still, though, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to write and create. Maybe it's that there's more pressure to produce "something really good" and do your absolute best. Or, maybe it's that you keep learning the longer you write, and so you want to make sure you're incorporating all the new things.
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