A Fun Tag
I found this over at Sandi Shelton’s blog and thought it would be fun to participate. She found it on Distraction no. 99.
Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. (If you haven’t gotten to page 123 yet, then turn to page 23. If you haven’t gotten there yet, then get busy and write page 23.) Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph.
Here’s mine. I sort of did something different, as far as length, because my paragraphs are short.
He paused. Perhaps not so random times.
The train of thought left as quickly as it had come upon finding a certain piece of paper. He had been looking at the books on the shelves and realized one and only one was bound with a black cover. He took it off the shelf and, as he leafed through it, a paper fell out.
A contract, he discovered upon further examination. A contract of an unpleasant nature.
Ilan might not have known his name in this world, life, reality, but he now was all too aware of his occupation.
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March 20th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
p. 123
Fortunately, there was an excellent underground hospital that his man was at, and all signs showed that he’d recover well. At least that was what the doctor, Alex Demarre, promised him. He was a reassuring kind of man, and so Arkady was at least willing to provisionally take his word for it. He was, after all, the doctor.
His other man was still regularly going out and looking for any signs of Nicholas’s whereabouts, and typically failing miserably. Every once in a while, he would come back with some clue, but all turned out to be nothing.
March 20th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Wow. I definitely want to read more.
March 25th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Loved the last line in your WIP.
March 25th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
This is from my romance novel Nikolas and Simone
Her truth didn’t have to be that she could not stop loving him. The reason it seemed that way, she told herself, was that their relationship ended abruptly. Like a knife slicing though an umbilical cord, the connection was severed instantaneously.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
Thank you.
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