It’s Friday again, so you know what that means. It’s #FirstLineFriday!
Now if you’re unfamiliar with what #FirstLineFriday is, here are the rules. On Fridays, you:
- Create a post on your blog entitled #FirstLineFriday, hashtag and all.
- Explain the rules like I’m doing now.
- Post the first one or two lines of a potential story, a story-in-progress, or a completed or published story.
- Ask your readers for feedback and encourage them to try #FirstLineFriday as well (tagging them if necessary).
This week’s entry comes from a story I’ve had sitting in the back of my head for a while. Without going into details, it involves issues of faith and belief, as well as devotion and power. It’ll be a very dark and probably bleak book when it’s finally written. Anyway, enjoy:
I remember the day I lost faith almost as clearly as if it had happened yesterday. Probably a good thing too, because my lack of faith is what allowed me to survive.
Thoughts? Errors? Let’s discuss.
And while we’re here, I think I’ll tag someone again. This week I’m tagging…Angela Misri of A Portia Adams Adventure! Angela, in honor of your new book, No Matter How Improbable, being released, I hereby tag you for #FirstLineFriday. Hope you enjoy doing it almost as much as I do every week. Or as much as I’m enjoying the new book. I’m about nine or ten chapters in at the time I’m writing this, and I have to say, I find it very intriguing. Especially including real historical figures in the story. That’s a pretty cool touch.
That’s all for now. If there’s anything else to post about this weekend, you’ll hear about it. In the meantime, have a good day and I’ll see you all later. Have a good one, my Followers of Fear!
Rami Ungar The Writer 
I find those first lines extremely intriguing. I don’t know how much it will really be about faith, since I am not that into it when it comes to my reading, but there is something about cynical characters who had to do some things to survive or get through life.
Thanks. I had some different lines that I would’ve used, but I felt they gave away too much about the story, so I decided not to use them.
This doesn’t really let me know much but definitely has my attention, so I think you chose wisely.
I appreciate that. Danke.
I like it! If I were trying to be nit picky maybe the use of “day” twice in the first sentence, but that’s really all i can think of! 🙂
Thanks Joleene. I’ll probably use something different when I actually get around to writing this story, but this was a good way to suss out people’s thoughts.