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HELP!


NaNoWriMo started yesterday but I can't get my imagination to comply. I need your assistance in getting my muse on the rollerdisco floor. So...

1) Please choose a work of fiction sitting near you.
2) Randomly select a sentence (not a paragraph; just a sentence).
3) Stick it in this post's comments section (not forgetting to include the source).

Thank you. This will be a great aid. I'll attempt to use all the sentences in the first few chapters of my novel, and hopefully that will be enough to get things flowing.

on 2007-11-02 01:09 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sushidog.livejournal.com
The two nearest works of fiction to me are a Victorian edition of the complete plays of Shakespeare, and Bellwether, by Connie Willis; I chose the latter, because I wasn't sure you'd want to deal with Shakespearian English!
"The sunflower fad had apparently come here to die."

on 2007-11-02 02:35 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
I could have always worked in 'Spear's English into the dialogue, or a poster on the wall. But the sentece you gave me is perfect.

on 2007-11-02 01:14 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] littlelamb.livejournal.com
the bus was waiting, panting heavily at the curb in front of the small bus station, its great blue and silver bulk glittering in the moonlight.

xoxo shirley jackson

on 2007-11-02 02:34 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
What a wonderful sentence!

on 2007-11-02 03:40 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sbeth76.livejournal.com
I heart Shirley Jackson. From what work is that sentence taken?

on 2007-11-02 04:25 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] littlelamb.livejournal.com
one of my favorite short stories of hers, "the tooth."

on 2007-11-03 05:25 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sbeth76.livejournal.com
I'll look it up.

on 2007-11-02 01:31 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] oatmeal-texas.livejournal.com
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

"Dread began to gather in the corners of Kate's mind, and out of dread came panic."

on 2007-11-02 01:31 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] canudiglett
"He gained great satisfaction in pushing it into a bin at Hackney Central."

A line from my forthcoming* novel, The Ambulance Man.


*Assuming anyone actually ever wants to publish it.

on 2007-11-02 01:35 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] rag-and-bone.livejournal.com
"Now for a long time he'd been unable to find the far-away room; always it had been so difficult, but never so hard as in the last year." --Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

on 2007-11-02 01:50 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] greenteablack.livejournal.com
Mirta wasn't certain whether to land a punch on the clone or thank him for showing up

on 2007-11-02 01:50 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] greenteablack.livejournal.com
The source is by Karen Traviss and it's from "Legacy of the Force - Sacrifice"

on 2007-11-02 02:34 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] moveslikegiallo.livejournal.com
There's no fiction anywhere near me, since I'm at work, but I thought I'd contribute this:

"They fashion the package so that when it's opened at the other end, the atom in that package is set to spin in a certain way, or direction."
- Micro Mart magazine. ;)

on 2007-11-02 02:34 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
That's fine. There's always dialogue. ;-)

on 2007-11-02 02:35 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] moveslikegiallo.livejournal.com
Actually, I could have given you a subheader, which was just "Has Mark gone mad?"

on 2007-11-02 02:41 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] belacane.livejournal.com
The paradise valley is mostly ranch land, although there are a few settlements there.

on 2007-11-02 02:48 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] wwidsith.livejournal.com
An insult that stuck in my mind recently is

Fuck him and ride his wife

..from Patrick McCabe's Wintersmith. Good luck..

on 2007-11-02 03:20 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com
Robert A. Heinlein's JOB: A Comedy of Justice.

"It was a station wagon with a woman behind the wheel, a man riding with her."

on 2007-11-02 03:39 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] sbeth76.livejournal.com
The trees loomed as they went by, trees upon trees, endless and verdant.
- The Emperor's Children, Claire Messud

on 2007-11-02 05:17 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] beeorkendurkey.livejournal.com
Now he could feel a fizzing in his blood.

-from 'Mort' by Terry Pratchett, page 136 (paperback)

on 2007-11-02 05:51 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] saint-narcissus.livejournal.com
"I do not think we should go any farther now," he said.

"The City And The Stars"
- Arthur C. Clarke

on 2007-11-02 07:02 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] geosh.livejournal.com
"When the light poured down through a hole in the clouds,
We knew the great poet was going to show."

Mark Strand, "Blizzard of One"

on 2007-11-02 07:11 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] knacker-prince.livejournal.com
"My tux, delivered with the others that morning, hung in the closet with a stiff pleated shirt of brilliant whiteness."

Tobias Wolff, "Old School", p.115.

on 2007-11-02 08:45 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] naturalbornkaos.livejournal.com
"Shagfoal look at I, and strong is go from I for move, that I is like to stone."

Unfortunately for you, I just started reading "Voice of the Fire" by Alan Moore.

on 2007-11-03 10:31 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
Don't worry; I'm sure Shagfoal will play an important role in my novel. ;-)

on 2007-11-03 12:20 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] yllyan.livejournal.com
'Dying would be easier, he knew.'

hope thats random enough for you ;-)

on 2007-11-03 12:24 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com
Thank you. Where's it taken from?

on 2007-11-04 09:39 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] stormecho.livejournal.com
"Without the deflated clothes to give the corpse some definition, probably none of them could have said for certain what it had once been." - The Dark Tower VII-Stephen King

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