Future Writers discussion

Okay, I found this in another book and thought it would be fun!


Here's how it goes:

In the current book you are reading, you open up to the 1st paragraph and write it.(or a few lines if it is way too long:) )

The reason I thought this would be a good activity is to show what makes a good first impression on a reader. The first Paragraph/line is very important! Have you ever looked at the first line in Uglies? The best first like EVER! Check it out!


Like this:

Title: Incarceron
Author: Catherine Fisher
Paragraph: Finn had been flung on his face and chained to the stone slabs of the transitway.

Now you try! :D way fun!

Title: Poison Study
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Paragraph: Locked in darkness that surrounds me like a coffin, I had nothing to distract me from my memories. Vivid recollections waited to ambush me whenever my mind wandered.

Title: Awakening (Lily Dale series)
Author: Wendy Corsi Staub
Paragraph: "Breathe, Stephanie. And focus on the lilacs, like they taught you in class. Come on..."

Title: Saphique
Author: Catherine Fisher
Paragraph: "The allyway was so narrow that Attia could lean against one wall and kick the other. She waited in the dimness, listening, her breath condensing on the glistening bricks. A flicker of flames around the corner sent red ripples down the walls."

Title: Numbers 2: The Chaos
Author: Rachel Ward
Paragraph: "The knock on the door comes early in the morning, just as it's getting light.
'Open up! Open up! We've got an evacuation order on these flats. Moving out in five minuets. Five minutes everybody!' "