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Saturday, January 2, 2016

Weekend Writing Warriors January 3, 2016

Hello all.  Happy 2016! I hope you have your writing goals set, and that you'll continue to make #8sunday one of them. 
          Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors, a weekly bloghop.  Each week, participants sign up HERE at wewriwa.com, then post 8 to 10 sentences of their work, published or unpublished, to go live between noon, Saturday, and 9:00 AM Sunday EST. Then we visit each other and read, comment, critique, encourage--all those things that do a solitary writer's heart good. 

              Snippet Sunday group from facebook--not us, but many of our participants do both, can be found HERE




This week, I'm excerpting from  my 2014 Nano WIP, Scifi/Dystopian. Working title: Dai Klavven 

I'll go ahead and share the opening lines:




A noise, like a giant piece of paper tearing, sliced through the air. It was the only warning of their helix weapon discharge. Blue light corkscrewed above Lily.  A split second later, the old sandstone foundation behind her exploded. Bits of rubble pelted her in her forward position, but the collapsing stone wall in the rear buried the few remaining fighters in her group.   

She blinked, grasping for bearings. Around her, the lack of sound matched the lack of movement. No cries, no moans, just dust mingling with smoke in the hot breeze. More humans forever silenced. She was it--the last defense before the bunker sheltering a dozen children and the two old women caring for them was attacked.

  

That's it. Thank you for reading it. I learn from your feedback--and I'm so grateful for any insight you share.

Have a great week.

20 comments:

  1. I like the description of the noise. Never thought of nature of noise in that manner. Great imagination. Wow. Thanks for sharing.
    Happy New Year to you and yours.

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  2. I really liked the lack of sound matching the lack of movement, very effective. Great snippet

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  3. Whooa!All help gone.Got a feeling she's prepared to battle and take care of her charges! Rock on!

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  4. A very bleak and desperate situation.Excellent snippet Teresa. I am looking forward to more!

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  5. Not good. That's a bad position to be in - hopefully some handsome help is on the way.
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  6. Wow, what an opening! I love how you established the urgency of the situation in just a few sentences.

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  7. Intense scene, sad but she's clearly got no time to linger and grieve. The paper tearing simile was great! Enjoyed the excerpt...

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  8. Way to drop us right into the action! Exciting and oddly beautiful scene. Well done.

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  9. Awesome opening! Really defines the stakes and paints the picture as bleak. Can't wait to see what happens next!

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  10. Oh, no! A dire situation indeed. She's going to need a miracle to get out of this!

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  11. Dire, yes and frightening.Wonderful scene. Don't change a hair for me, not if you care for me. Just kidding.

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  12. Nice! Talk about jumping in via "in media res"!! I love the depiction of the blue light corkscrewing overhead.

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  13. Very intense scene. You put us right in the action.

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  14. Nothing like upping the stakes. Well done, Teresa.

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  15. I liked the new Star Wars movie too. I was new in this country when the first one came so I saw it after some time. I loved the first three.

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  16. Wow, fantastic opening! Great action and a wicked cliffhanger. Thanks for sharing! :D

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  17. You brought me right into the action and left me hanging. I hope she makes it!

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  18. Nothing like starting off on a tear...with a disaster. I hope Lily is well armed and wily, with all those lives depending on her!

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