Day 79: Re-read

"Re-read your own opening sentence. How does it hold up?"

First, yesterday's assignment:

1. Prologue
May 31, 2001
Feast of the Visitation
House of Olivia and Gudge Beeler
Mountain City, North Carolina

THE ROOM, THOUGH small, is light and airy. A highly polished writing table overlooks a square of lawn with flower borders.

- Gail Godwin, Unfinished Desires

2. I had just finished a job for an interesting woman named Nan Sartin, and was happily making out my bill to her, when a woman came in who promised to be equally interesting.

- Robert B. Parker, The Professional

3. Molly Crane stuck her head into the open doorway of Jesse's office and said, "Chief Stone, there's a private detective from Boston here to see you."

- Robert B. Parker, Split Image

4. The place never changed.
Gabriel McQueen actually liked that about his hometown, Wilson Creek, Maine.
- Linda Howard, Ice.

5. While swards of lightening slashed and stabbed murderously across the scarred shield of sky, Bart Minnock whistled his way home for the last time.

- J. D. Robb, Fantasy in Death

6. A moment before the encounter, a strange expectancy overcame Grady Adams, a sense that he and Merlin were not alone.

-Dean Koontz, Breathless

Compare to my opening? Well, some start with description of things, some with ideas, and some with dialogues. Mine kind of starts with description. Don't know if that's attractive or not. But I surely can try another one.

21 days.