Sentence Starters ...

Today in class we were given a number of pre fix sentences so to speak. We were then given a minute or so to finish them off with whatever we thought was appropriate.

This was our introduction to writing introductions to fiction stories as our next big assignment is to write our own fiction story. The section of the sentence that is separated will represent the part of the sentence our teacher gave us to finish off.

Today was | going to be the worst day of the year and I could still hear the words that caused it.

Today I am | not myself. It amazes me what simple words can do.

What I really want right now | is to get those words out of my head. The words that made this the worst day ever.

I deserve | nothing you've given me and everything you haven't

I believe love is | unconditional and illogical

If I had a year in which I could anything I wanted | I would spend that year producing an amazing rock album.

We were then to take our strongest and favorite sentence we had finished and turn it into a paragraph introducing us into a bigger short story. The goal is to entice the reader to want to continue reading to find out more about the story. This is what I came up with:

Today was | going to be the worst day of the year and I could still hear the words that caused it. They rang in my ear, taking turns stabbing at what I thought I knew. The words that weren't spoken but published; they hurt the most. It was those few words, that destroyed my once seemingly perfect life.

- Francis Frustration