Now that WordPress has the ability to host polls, I thought I’d try something new. I want to write a new story this week, and I thought I’d throw five opening sentences out there, and let people choose which sentence they’d like to see continue into a story.
Whichever sentence gets the most votes will be the story I write!
UPDATE: Voting has closed, and sentence #5 is the winner, by just one tiny vote. See — voting does work! Your voice can be heard!
Vote early, and vote often!!! Thanks!
Michael Jasper 
I picked 3, but I like 1 and 2 also. ‘Course so much depends on the *rest* of the story!
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Thanks for voting, people! I’ll “close” the poll tonight around midnight or so.
Lee – it’s funny, but I didn’t realize until after I’d posted these openings that all but ONE are related to a longer work (novels written or being revised). I guess I haven’t completely broken free of my novel addiction…
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It wouldn’t let me cast a second vote for the last one. (Of course, it was also made a bit more challenging by having your page Tumbarumba’d!)
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Ah, so you took the “vote often” part of my entry seriously, eh, Rachel? 🙂
What do you mean by having my page Tumbarumba’d??? I need to look into that…
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The third one down (the line of mice) sounds like something out of Chris Van Allsburg’s THE MYSTERIES OF HARRIS BURDICK.
http://www.chrisvanallsburg.com/harrisburdick2.html
(in case you haven’ read it before)
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Oh yeah — I “read” that book years ago, and even used it when I was teaching creative writing to my 7th graders all those aeons ago. Great book! I like being compared to Van Allsburg (even if it is just one sentence!).
Thanks for dropping by and voting!
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