How to Begin a Novel
Some of those sound like something I'd actually like to read.> I am, or was.> There was once a man who lived for a very long time; perhaps three thousand years, or perhaps a thousand million years, maybe a trillion or so, depending on how the scientists look at it.> “I am Eilie, and I am here to kill the world.”> I have just been informed, that the debate over the question ‘is it right or wrong to have immortal souls’ has been finally brought to a conclusion.> The purple-haired woman came to the clearing in the plain, and without looking up from her book, said, “It’s too late to be thinking about baby names.”> The village of Pembrokeshire, in the county of Mersey, lies on a wide, happy plain, which, in a few years, was to become known as the “Land of the Endless Mountains.”> I was playing with my dog, Mark the brown Labrador, and I had forgotten that I was also playing with a dead man.> The black stone was aching from the rain.> How many times have I had the misfortune to die?> The first day I met my future self, I was aboard the old dirigible that lay in wait for me on the far side of the moon.I could see a fascinating story starting with most of those lines.