From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   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   
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