So, I don’t know if you’ve heard about this, but my friend Rami @Rami Ungar the Writer introduced me to #FirstLineFriday. He’s been doing it for a while and thought that by tagging me (or people in general) it might spread. So, what is this mysterious weekly feature you may ask?
The Rules:
- You create a blog post on your own blog entitled “#FirstLineFriday”, hashtag and all.
- You explain the rules.
- You post the first one or two lines of a potential story, a WIP, or a completed or published story.
- You ask your readers for feedback and encourage them to try and do #FirstLineFriday.
I have to say, I haven’t been working on Dreamer or Break Up Buddy in a while now. So, sharing something from that would feel more than just pointless, especially since you already sort of know about those stories. Now, I once told you that I used to write at a younger age and posted those written ramblings on Figment. To rightfully do this tag or feature or whatever, I headed over there to see how I started my stories out. This one is from a story called Secrets of Ridgmont and like everything back then, I started it out in a school. Take a look yourself:
Of course nothing is normal! I don’t know … would you want to read on? I thought the story itself was quite smart back then, even though I am well aware that you all have no idea how it continues. Yet, looking at the writing … it definitely showed how young I was and that English was not my first language. It’s hilarious to read though, so if you want to have a good laugh and/or are bored, click here to read more.
Now, in the spirit of spreading this feature a little more as well, I am going to tag people too!
- Michelle @The Writing Hufflepuff
- Sara Letourneau
- Nicolette Elzie
- EVERYONE WHO WANTS TO
I think I’m going to steal this. I need a fuller-type post for today and I couldn’t think of what to do
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Go right ahead!!! If you could maybe link back to Rami though, that would be great!
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Okay, I will!
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[…] This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. I have burgled it right out from under the nose of Kat @ Life and Other Disasters, and she in turn got it from Rami @ Rami Unger the […]
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Depending on what the story was about, I might read ahead. Great job, Katja. I’m glad you decided to do this.
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It’s a fantasy story. With the founding families of the town having powers they didn’t know about until something bad happened. I’m not going to recommend you read it hahaha It wasn’t my best writing at all.
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Sounds a bit like a movie I saw in my teens, actually.
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Without more details on that, we will never know if I watched that movie too and was inspired by it.
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I doubt you did. It’s called The Covenant.
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Hahaha I totally did! I loved that movie so much. But I actually wrote a different story that was inspired from that movie. Maybe there were still traces from it in Secrets though hahaha
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You’re just full of surprises, aren’t you?
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It would be so terribly boring if there weren’t any surprises left.
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Very true.
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Aww, this feature sounds like so much fun, I might do it 🙂
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Go ahead! I’d love to read it!
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I am so doing this as you tagged everyone!
That sentence actually got me wanting to read on XD
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Sure! I hope you have fun with it!
Hahaha I am not sure I can recommend you reading on with a clear conscience. I mean, sure you could, just follow the link. But the writing is very poor.
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Well the whole point of writing is to improve (or something like that). At least you know now that you can write opening sentences that hook the reader!
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We should also always consider that I wrote this like 6-7 years back and that English is not my primary language hahaha
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Hahaha Yep we should always consider that point as well 🙂
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Thanks for the tag! 🙂 I’m definitely doing this!
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YAY 😀
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Just scheduled it! 😀
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Awesome! Can’t wait to check it out 🙂
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