As I have said before, I like doing First Lines, so I never have to face a blank page.
Here are a few more of my First Lines:
“Every time a writer puts his thoughts on paper, it’s a new beginning.
You robbed your mother of her greatest joy!
The bond between families is like elastic, it expands and contracts (during crisis) as needed.
The camera catches every flaw and this time was no different.
How can you hear, when you are so busy interrupting?
The evening shadows danced across the wall as she cringed in fear beside the bed, never taking her eyes off the gun pointed at her face.”
I hope some of you who like to write will start a short story using one of my first sentences.
It’s family time for me this week. Seeing all the family on Saturday, my birthday, and seeing each part of the family one day at a time. It’s such fun. So no, they’re not tired of us yet.
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My blog will be the same on both.
Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene
Writing Meeting
I went to a writing meet-up last night. I’m always impressed by the quality of the writing, and the imagination of writers. I can’t wait to find 2 or 3 people or even 1 person who lives near me and will brainstorm and mentor me as I write a novel.
The best part is of course the feedback, which was wonderful. They said to change the name of one character, too much like the other name, and to make one person more humerous. My book is filled with emotion, and adding a little humor is a great suggestion.
The other thing I relearned, is to keep going, don’t go back and rework chapter one forever and ever. Just write, keep writing until the end, then go back and use post it notes, highlighters, whatever works for you and higlight whatever you want. Could be the first word of each sentence, description, dialog, setting, looking for vivid verbs. I do keep a notebook of words I like and I use that notebook a lot.
I also have a Bits & Pieces notebook and I have quotes, small scenes, descriptions, words, advice, whatever I want to remember and I keep them in a folder. I add pictures, names of books I like anything to jog your memory or jumpstart your writing.
First lines jumpstart my writing, and I have about 550 of them finished. I love doing them.
Saw my doctor today. I have the lowest Vitamin D level he has seen, so I’m starting to take Vitamin D. I hope with all my heart it help with the fatigue. I want to do so much more in one day, but I can’t seem to keep up.
Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene
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