Below are six sentences from my latest work-in-progress, Let Me Lie. I’m still in the process of writing it, but if I’m successful with JulNaWriMo, it will be ready for revision/rewriting by August.
“It only takes one bad decision to ruin a perfectly good future. One minute you’re living life to the fullest, the next, you’re dealing out death just to ensure you take your next breath, because dying is not an option. I’m not talking about the six-feet-under kind of dead. I would welcome that with arms wide open at this point, because the way my life’s going it’ll be the only peace I ever know. It’s the unnatural death I fear. A salvationless eternity of hunger, pain, and loneliness.”
Intriguing. Is this your first paragraph? It has a nice hook. That’s what I’m struggling with at the moment in my current manuscript…my hook.
Yes, it is. And I understand completely. Hooks are hard, that’s why I prefer first-person. For me, that POV is easier to create suspense with.
Six very interesting sentences.
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