| Source: Children Come First http://www.childrencomefirst.com/firstlines.shtml Contests CCF began its online writing contest in 2007 and received great entries that were posted to the site. We'll continue the contest this year and would love to receive suggested first lines from our site's visitors and contest participants. Make your first line suggestion a generic one. For the July 2008 first line we chose "With fingerprint in hand..." Contest participants are free to choose who the story is about. The character who has the fingerprint in hand could be a man, woman, child, boy, girl, or even a pet, a wild animal, or...a robot! It doesn't even have to be the main character who has it! What will this character do with it in the story? Where is he/she/it going? What is the setting of the story? When we use a generic first line we allow contest participants to make all those decisions and take the story where their imaginations lead them. There are various websites that carry monthly themes. Here are some of them. Visit them and see if you get some ideas for first lines to submit to CCF. Use the CCF Contact form to send in your suggestions. Tell us if it's associated with a particular month or special event. |
Send us your first lines! This is a call for suggested "first lines" we can use for the CCF