What's the first sentence of your novel?

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The hearse moved like a snail through the narrow streets of Gerginham, leaving a solemn trail of mourners traipsing over the wet cobblestones.
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I changed the novel I'm writing, so now the first line is this:
"There was little else in the world Bones McGraw hated more than moving."
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The owl was waiting for me.
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Wednesday, July 6th, 1757. This day my dear Wife was delivered of a dead son. . . God was pleased to support her under great weakness, and continue her life till Lord’s day the 25th of the same month, when she expired at eight o’clock A.M.
The sadness drains through me rather than skating over my skin. It travels through every cell to reach the ground. I filter it yet strangely enough, I keep what was pure and it is the dirt that leaves.




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I was dead.
Stay Safe
The Princess of Darkness

Hello! You? Yes you reading this. Have a nice day because you're wonderful and you deserve it!

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I've only just realized how uninpsiring my first sentence is but whatever

It’s been a slow day for the ticket clerk.
they told me to never give up on my dreams.

so i took another nap




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It was an uncomfortable feeling to be on a flying train, heading towards a magic academy, when you actually weren’t quite sure if you were a mage.
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Hi I'm Kyle.

perfect... i know... (Technically this is a web comic so this is to be expected)
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More like a paragraph, but close enough.

My Dearest Sun,

December First xxxx

If it wasn't for the setting sun, one might think this road twists on forever. Perhaps the idea of an eternal winter has captured my mind enough to put it at ease. There's nothing more I could do besides letting my mind wander. Even so, it is a dangerous pastime. Such things turned the gods mad, after all.




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Inside of the colorful cosplay convention event in Mc Arthur Malolos Bulacan, it's full of passionate cosplayers interacting each other.




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I suppose I have "two" first sentences in my novel, but I'll share the first one :)
“So. Should we get started?”




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"The air was cold on the balcony."
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Not doing Nano, but I love this idea hehe. I altered the first line a bit a long while ago because the first line used to just be "ping." lol xD

Ping, clank, ping, clank—iron hitting iron, heat meeting meal, sizzling embers, hissing smoke as heat being extinguished—these sounds are what drove him in a daze down the crowded streets and into the shelter of the smithy’s shop; from the busy, deafening atmosphere to the somewhat quieter sounding workplace.
You hunger, yet call me brother; you snarl, though call me kin.
He said, Dear one, it is merely the unfortunate consequence of our species.


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