My inspiration for this month's challenge is Donna Tart's opening sentence in her novel The Secret History:
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of the situation.
Good as this is, an author must follow a brilliant opening with a hooky second sentence. Your challenge is to write a Perfect follow-on sentence. Do not use Donna Tart's second sentence. You don't even have to follow her theme. Turn her opening into the beginning of your story.
The rules are simple:
Good luck and get writing!
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of the situation.
Good as this is, an author must follow a brilliant opening with a hooky second sentence. Your challenge is to write a Perfect follow-on sentence. Do not use Donna Tart's second sentence. You don't even have to follow her theme. Turn her opening into the beginning of your story.
The rules are simple:
- Each entry must be ONE sentence only, as defined by the basic rules of English grammar. We will notice if you squeeze unrelated clauses together and pretend it's a sentence, so please don't do it. Your entry will be disqualified and removed.
- Don’t comment on other people's entries – this makes the thread far less readable. If you’d like to make a comment – or if you have a question – then please do so in the Café Life thread under the “One Perfect Sentence” prefix. I will keep checking the thread to answer any general questions. If you have a question you don't want others to read, please private message me directly.
- You can make as many entries as you want to, but only your entry with the greatest number of votes will win a place (and Litbits).
- IMPORTANT: You MUST make your entry anonymous by ticking the “Posting as Anonymous?” box. Entries that don’t do this will be removed.
Good luck and get writing!
