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A meme is making its way through the blogosphere, and for once I feel like playing.
The rules:
1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating.
(My current ms is all of three paragraphs long, so I'm falling back on the one preceding it, which I wrapped up a month or so ago - a book in search of a title, currently called Switchback.)
uprooting humans.
Most humans, anyway. Jody stroked the rock's flank, encouraging it to shift ever so slightly away from the pocket the tree's root had dug along its side. Lesser bits of earth, obedient to his touch, compressed themselves together. When he felt the root's anchoring had loosened enough, he wrapped his hand around the trunk again and pulled--
--and the tree popped out of the earth as if just planted, the lack of resistance dropping him onto his back with the tree still clenched in his hand.
The rules:
1. Go to page 77 (or 7th) of your current ms
2. Go to line 7
3. Copy down the next 7 lines – sentences or paragraphs – and post them as they’re written. No cheating.
(My current ms is all of three paragraphs long, so I'm falling back on the one preceding it, which I wrapped up a month or so ago - a book in search of a title, currently called Switchback.)
uprooting humans.
Most humans, anyway. Jody stroked the rock's flank, encouraging it to shift ever so slightly away from the pocket the tree's root had dug along its side. Lesser bits of earth, obedient to his touch, compressed themselves together. When he felt the root's anchoring had loosened enough, he wrapped his hand around the trunk again and pulled--
--and the tree popped out of the earth as if just planted, the lack of resistance dropping him onto his back with the tree still clenched in his hand.
