Writer's Block: The start of something wonderful

[thisbluespirit]

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Clearly I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith: "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink..."

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(I don't normally do these, but couldn't resist that one.)

Comments

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I bet that answer comes up A LOT!

Mine is actually two lines:

In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

[thisbluespirit]

I wondered that, but it isn't visible in the first 30 answers. It's one of the very few opening lines I know off the top of my head. P&P is another, and also Little Women: "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo...). :-)

Aw. :-)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

I must admit 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife" comes a very close second!

And no, I didn't have to look up either one of them!

[thisbluespirit]

I didn't imagine that you did.

Actually, I also know the beginning of Tamora Pierce's In the Hand of the Goddess. For some reason, during my long teenage illness, there was a point where I memorised the whole first page for when I didn't have it out the library. I don't know why. All I can recall now is the first line: "The copper-haired rider looked at the sky, and swore." :lol:)

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

LOL Interesting!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, not really. Just strange, I suppose! ;-D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Strange by some people's definition, maybe, but not mine!

[thisbluespirit]

:-D

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

Hee! I've still not read that one -- is the rest of it as good as that first line?

[thisbluespirit]

It continues: "That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining board, which I have padded with our dog's blanket and the tea-cosy. I can't say that I am really comfortable, and there is a depressing smell of carbolic soap, but this is the only part of the kitchen where there is any daylight left. And I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house. Though even that isn't a very good poem. I have decided my poetry is so bad that I mustn't write any more of it."

I Have to say, I think it's great - the story, Cassandra's voice as the narrator, and her eccentric family. It's a great coming-of-age type thing, from Dodie Smith, who wrote The Hundred and One Dalmations. :-)

[john_amend_all]

I've written up my proper answer separately, but keeping it to books that actually exist:

No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.

[thisbluespirit]

I've seen your entry now, so that comment makes sense. Or almost, anyway... :lol: