I don’t usually post extracts of my work on this blog. And I don’t usually do blog challenges. But I couldn’t resist this one!
The 777 challenge requires you go to Page 7 of your work-in-progress, scroll down to Line 7 and share the next 7 sentences in a blog post. Once you have done this, you can tag 7 other bloggers to do the same with their work-in-progress.
My last post was pretty gloomy: 2nd Week NaNo Blues. But first drafts are always difficult. And when I reread some of my earlier scribblings, I cheered myself up. Rough. Untidy. But the story is fine.
Anyway, here are my unedited 7 sentences from 1st draft of the 7th page of my current NaNo novel, The Quantum Circle.
‘It was an accident.’ I’m nearly shouting. ‘You saw the vidi recording. I was trying to avoid the passenger ferry.’
There is a silence, before he shakes his head in a disappointed fashion, as though I am being a naughty child.
‘So you say. But we wonder who suggested it to you.’
‘Nobody,’ I shout.
Another silence.
I’m nominating the following NaNoWriMers
@Flickimp
@ileandraXraven
@LynneinPborough
Yep. I know that’s only 3 people. I don’t have many friends!
Ruth Livingstone 
Looks alright to me You’re over halfway now. Feel proud of all those words you’re putting down.
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Needs editing. ‘Am being a naughty child’ should lose the ‘being’ – punchier and better. Sigh. See so many mistakes in rhe first draft. Hope all is well with you, Maria.
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You’re doing brilliantly. I’ve not written for two days, unlikely to do much today and haven’t posted on my blog since the beginning of August. I’m not sure I know many who blog and are doing NaNo. You’d be on my list so that might really reduce my tagging.. I’ll post anyway when my computer’s feeling a bit faster. I’m sure no-one will mind if they’re not tagged.
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Your project sounds wonderful, Lynne. You must finish it. And find a publisher. I’m sure there would be plenty of local interest.
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