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Sunday, April 14, 2019

First Sentences from Unfinished Novels (class assignment)

Hi, I'm back to continue the pattern of a post about anything followed by a post about one of my creative writing class assignments. :)

The title of this post (minus the parentheses part) is what I titled my assignment for this. I'm only posting the assignments I have graded and got feedback from. I'm generally getting good grades, so I feel fine posting them on here.

They're my sentences. They're mine. >:-)

This assignment: Write beginning sentences for different novels, using a variety of genres and point-of-views.

But instead of organizing them based on number of syllables (8-12 per line), I'm numbering each sentence and retyping them so they look like regular sentences.

I'm so extra because I came up with non-generic names for some of the characters. And no- I didn't use any of my story characters. (I'm too much of a coward to do that lmao.) But I was thinking of some of my story scenes for a few of these. (*cough* 11 *cough* ;) heh heh)
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1. Bullets were flying across the room, but Agent Lily Parker knew she had to get to the money first. 
2. She imagined him looking at her with his light blue eyes and dark hair; she blushed at the thought of it.
3. I opened my eyes and saw that the sky was green and the grass was blue.
4. You didn’t know what to do as he stepped out of the shadows; then the bomb landed at your frozen feet with a single thud.
4. You were daydreaming about your middle school crush of all people while you were in geography class; you answered the teacher’s question confidently with the date he first noticed you running late to class.
5. Alix and Reyes tapped at the controls of the spaceship, attempting to escape from the imperious Martian Army.
6. The queen of the elves entered the kingdom on a unicorn whose footprints left a path of glitter behind her.
7. We all woke up only to find our limbs tied up; I thought I was numb to everything but that’s when the buzzing started. 
8. Kade gave me a letter written in red ink; it was too late when I realized it was blood.
9. Buck entered the saloon looking for a fight- he was staring right at me with a toothpick in the corner of his mouth.
10. They sat on the roof, gazing up at the stars, discussing their plans on when they would set the world on fire and dance in the ashes. 
11. Flames danced in his eyes as he glared at me; I was ready to die at that moment.
12. Casper was getting bored of reality, so he drifted into the world of dragons.
13. Doctor Clark studied the fingerprints left behind at the scene of the crime.
14. Alyssa and Samantha got lost in the woods; the next thing they remembered was walking down a cobblestoned street in early 1900’s London as the clock struck twelve.
15. Tommy was unusual because he kept on dreaming of flying fish and giant puppies, but he was my favorite kid to babysit.
16. The little girl watched in terror as her father turned into a demon.
17. He was chasing down the criminal when all of a sudden, they turned on him.
18. Aris was in a panic when the alarms sounded off, telling him to evacuate the spacecraft, but he was far from Earth.
19. He woke up swimming in the ocean eyes of his long-gone lover from Atlantis.

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And that's all of them! 

Comment your favorite ones because I'm curious on what you guys think.

I tried to write horror, romance, comedy, action, sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism, mystery, historical fiction (? kinda), and.. I think that's it but I could be forgetting one or two. 

What do you think? Like, am I weird? Well, the answer is yes. But come on now. Talk to me. Give me your thoughts. That would be nice. :-)

My sentences are long because I'm so damn extra. 

Thanks for reading! :D

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