Tag Archives: Six Sentence Sunday

What are you working on today? Sunday Speed Snippet – Last Winter Red – What’s Your Speed Snippet for today?

Posted on December 2, 2012 | 6 comments

Wow. Tomorrow is Release Day for the Make Believe Anthology. When I signed that contract, it seemed like the date would never get here, but here we are. **she bites her nails**

I figured, in honor of the release, I’d give you a Sunday Snippet from “Last Winter Red.” In this passage, our main character Emily is crying in the next room after finding out the man she was interested in is married. To rub salt in the wounds, she listens to this conversation through a closed door.

“George,” Lori’s voice stopped his steps. “She’s been here three times since the wedding, and you never mentioned we were married?”

“I guess it never came up.”

“Never came up?” A pause hung in the air. “It didn’t occur to you that she might have an ulterior motive to her visits? You’re the one who told me Reds are brainwashed into having unhealthy numbers of children. You should have known she was looking for a husband.”

George’s sigh permeated the wooded slats of the door. “I needed that medicine, Lori. She was the only one willing to bring it out here.”

“You used her?”

“Does it matter? She’s not bringing any more.”

Oh! Don’t you just want to smack him upside the head!!!!

Okay, your turn!

1. Check the number of pages in your current WIP.

2. Go to http://www.random.org/ (or any random number generator)

3. Get a random page

5. Post a hundred or so words starting at the first full sentence on the page either below in the comments, or on your blog and link it below.

Let’s have some fun!

I can’t wait it see what you’re working on!

Sunday Snippets – A Catholic Carnival (lionessblog.com)
Six Sentence Sunday: (WIP) Sidney’s Triple Shot (Part C) (lorikingbooks.wordpress.com)
Unedited Snippet Six from Book Five (joleenenaylor.wordpress.com)

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Six Sentence Exerpt from “The Glass Man”

Posted on November 18, 2012 | 3 comments

This is a six sentence excerpt from the Glass Man by Jocelyn Adams.

I’m going to review this sucker when I get a chance, but let’s take a minute to describe the Glass Man.

Yeah, there’s nothing like an ultra-sexy-and-he-knows-it bad guy. It’s the kind of villain that you can’t stand, but you just CAN’T WAIT for him to sashay back into the next scene.

Here’s the six:

“You are a hearty thing,” the Glass Man said in that amused tone he always used. He sauntered out from behind a tree, wearing a dark gray suit. A gray silk tie painted a shining line down a matching shirt. His wavy hair had been pulled back and secured with a black ribbon. I’d never seen him dressed up. In another life—one where he wasn’t a murderous sociopath—I might have thought him beautiful, but at that moment he looked like cancer wearing an Armani.

Ha! Don’t you just love/hate him already?

What book have you read lately with an awesome villain. Did you find yourself rooting for him or her?

Another Book Exerpt (kristenbrakeman.com)
Book Exerpt – First in a Sporadic Series (kristenbrakeman.com)

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Six Sentence Sunday – From my Work in Progress

Posted on October 21, 2012 | 16 comments

Yep… Gonna give ya a sneak peek at my latest little swarray (is that how you spell that?) into the world of Romance. I’m still writing the Explosion novel Fire In the Woods, but so I don’t get stagnant, I’m mixing things up with some shorts for those days when I just need a break from it.

This is from my current WIP “A Test of Faith”. It starts out with a line stated by our hero, Jack. He is driving, and Jill is in the passenger seat with her daughter Nicole in the rear.

“If I didn’t get drunk last night, I wouldn’t have woken up under your Christmas tree … I wouldn’t have had the guts to finally tell you how I feel.”

Nicole leaned up between our seats. “You woke up under our tree because God put you there, Uncle Jack. You were Mom’s Christmas present.”

His hand slipped back to my knee. “I’m not sure that I was her present. I think she was mine.”

Hmmm. Okay so that was more than six sentences. Sorry Counting Gods! I’m a writer, not a mathematician!

So, Whattya think?

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#SixSunday with Designs of Desire – Oct 14th (tempesteoriley.wordpress.com)

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Tagged Christmas, Christmas tree, Holiday, Holidays, Romance, Six Sentence Sunday, Tree, WIP

Six Sentence Sunday – Something by me! – Six from Fire in the Woods

Posted on October 14, 2012 | 14 comments

For the while now I’ve been ~~too lazy to put out my own stuff~~ featuring other authors for Six Sentence Sunday.

Today, I thought I’d take a random Six from my current baby, “Fire in the Woods”.

I basically opened up the file, dragged the little doo-hicky down about a quarter into the document, and counted down ten lines. So, Bam, this is the six you get.

In this six, my main character, Jess, is describing her father. (Fire in the Woods is told in first person “I” from Jess’s perspective.)

“Well, he doesn’t really laugh much anymore. We used to play a lot together, and now he’s like, all business.” I closed my eyes, taking in the clear forest air. My mind wandered back to my mother’s funeral—Dad sitting on the bench, staring at Mom’s open coffin. “He never cried. He just sat there.”

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Tagged Family, father, fire in the woods, Home, Six Sentence Sunday

Six Sentence Sunday – “Surrender” by Aimee Laine

Posted on September 23, 2012 | 3 comments

Here are Six Sentences from the nice lady who took over my blog for a day so I could eat all the chocolate I wanted.

Chocolate is YUMMY!

Here are six sentences from “Surrender” by Aimee Laine

Lily drifted to the window seat, tucked one leg up under herself and stared out at the ocean.

“I’m sixty years old, and I still want a mom like you are Angela. Willing to go to the ends of the earth for your daughter. To not stop or give up. To wipe away the tears, put lotion on the burns, ice on the bruises and tell people to go to hell when they break your leg in the name of science.”

As a tear slipped down Lily’s cheek, she leaned her head against the glass, wishing the ocean would jump up and swallow her whole or at least steal her memories back.

Thanks again for the break, Aimee!

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Six Sentence Sunday – “And the Nightinglae Sang” by Kip Wilson

Posted on September 2, 2012 | 7 comments

I recently purchased the anthology “Timeless, An Anthology of Young Adult Romance.” Here are six sentences from one of those stories: “And the Nightingale Sang” by Kip Wilson

In this passage, our heroine is meeting the boy she loves for the first time in months. He is a traveling minstrel, and a poet, and she is as in love with his music as she is in love with him. Take it away, Kip!

Photo from my Goodreads list

“I would as gladly be a rose as a lily, if it gave me the chance to live in your poetry,” I said, waiting for him to offer me more. Had he figured out my wish?

“You will most certainly find a home in my poems one day,” he murmured into my ear, “but for now I want you in my arms–as a real girl. How I have missed you, my love.”

Our time apart vanished in an instant, and I became his.

Awe! Are you feeling the love?

For more sets os six from published works as well as works in progress, check out the Six Sentence Sunday Site.

http://www.sixsunday.com/

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Tagged anthology, Arts, Kip Wilson, Literature, Online Writing, Poetry, Short story, Six Sentence Sunday

Sentence Sunday – Oracle by J.C. Martin

Posted on August 12, 2012 | 7 comments

Here are Six Sentences from the novel I am currently reading.

This is from the first chapter.

Vincent is a Magician. He’s just met up with a serial killer. Oh oh!

Blubbering pitifully, Vincent climbed the wooden steps on shaky legs.

He hesitated at the top, staring down over the threshold of the acrylic tank into the clear, rippling water below.

A mere few hours before, he’d stood at that very spot, feeling nothing more than supreme confidence and a mundane sence of boredom.

Olga’s warm body pressed into his as the intruder piloted her up the steps at gunpoint, her fleshy bosom heaving at Vincent’s back.

“Get in,” the gunman instructed.

“C’mon, mate,” Vincent pleaded, “whatever it is, we can talk–”

Interview with J.C. Martin, Author of Oracle (clairegillian.com)
Kenra Daniels’ #SundaySix Has A Title! (kenradaniels.com)
Author Love: J.C. Martin {Oracle Blog Tour} (jabelfield.wordpress.com)

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It’s Six Sentence Sunday! 7-29-12 #SixSunday

Posted on July 29, 2012 | 6 comments

It’s Six Sentence Sunday! If you’d like to hop on board this little blog hop, or just look up more great six-sentence excerpts, visit SixSentenceSunday.com

Today I am featuring six from my own work, tentatively titled “Connect the Dots”. I am working on revising this for submission to an anthology in the next few weeks.

The main character, Jill (an adult) is writing a letter to Santa

I picked up the pen, and began tapping it on the paper again.

Another line of scrolling black dots appeared across the sheet.

I eased back down into my chair.

What do I want … really?

The pen began to scribble, streaming across the lines with barely a thought from the woman holding it.

Sixteen little words stared up at me, the blue ink solid and demanding on the white ruled surface… permanent.

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#SixSunday – It’s Christmas in July with an Excerpt from Santa’s Backdoor Baby (abcsoferotica.wordpress.com)
5 ways to reduce Santa Stress… and live longer:-) (pinnaclelife.co.nz)

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Tagged Christmas, christmas letter, connect the dots, Games, Paper and Pencil, santa, Santa Claus, Short story, Six Sentence Sunday, writing

Six Sentence Sunday 7-22-12

Posted on July 22, 2012 | 11 comments

Today, for Six Sentence Sunday, I am featuring six from a novelette I just finished. This was a weird one for me, because it was a Western. I’ll explain why I read it when I review it on Thursday.

These sentences are from “Mended Hearts” by Olivia Devereaux

The main character, Ella, is telling her young son that his father has just been shot. They live away from the town, and are all alone. She just finished burying her husband all by herself.

“Your pa, he…” the words wouldn’t come.

Eli rushed to her, throwing his arms around her waist.

His tears leaked out and splattered her forearm, but he didn’t utter a sound.

The dust in the yard kicked up in a mini wind devil before dissipating.

Ella gazed toward the long hump of dirt in a cordoned off area Owen had set aside for their family plots

She never thought he’d be the first one to go to the ground.

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6 Sentence Sunday – “Make it Stop!”

Posted on July 15, 2012 | 29 comments

Someone told me once you can never torture your Main Character too much. Tee Hee. Here are six torturous sentences from my current work: Fire in the Woods.

Pain edged into my brain, peeling back my skull and slicing what it found inside, bearing no mercy or reluctance. I slammed my hands against my ears, but it continued to rasp and carve a hole through my senses. Head pounding, I cried out in agony but my voice was lost, strangled within the slicing rage of noise exploding through my mind. I dropped to my knees, tears streaming down my face.