From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com

On 9/12/2014 4:50 AM, Nicky wrote:
> On Friday, September 12, 2014 12:01:12 AM UTC+1, bre...@sff.net wrote:
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>> I do not think of it this way at all.
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>> The fist sentence of the novel is the one that allows me to write the
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>> second sentence. And the third. And roughly a hundred thousand more. If
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>> it cannot do that, it's not the right first sentence.
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> I agree completely. If I am not hooked and intrigued I can't go on to make
up the story. I don't usually have a story idea before I start writing so the
first sentence is the spring board to the second. Most of my novels only exist
because I found a 
first sentence which had story stuff in it.
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> Nicky
>>


You are clearly a pantser born, just like I am.

Brenda (has no idea what is going to happen next)


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