Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Hangers


Falling4Fiction is hosting a Hangers blogfest.  Choose three chapters from one of your writing projects and post the last sentence from each.  Then enter the link on their website.  Winners will get a 10 page critique. 


I’ll choose my work in progress, which is a reimagining of The War of the Worlds.  Here are three sentences designed to leave you hanging: 

Chapter 11  No opportunity to unlock the door without being seen or heard, so I flattened myself against the wall of the house, trembling violently. 

Chapter 15  My senses were overwhelmed as I lay there, head lolling on hard wood, and I couldn’t differentiate between the steam and the smoke obscuring my vision as I blacked out. 

Chapter 18  “Poison gas.”

24 comments:

  1. Great tension in all of these! Well done!

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  2. Thanks for a heads up. It's important that writers get their work critiqued. It's interesting that they only want the last sentence from each.

    Also, as a fellow scifi fan and writer, I enjoy your blog. Following you now.

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  3. Wow. So much tension and holy crapness in these! Love the way you did them with the longer hangers then you have "Poison gas." Agh!

    Great job!

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  4. WOW! Spectacular hangers!
    Really great work!

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  5. Chapter 15 has got me really intrigued, these are all fantastic :)

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  6. I'd love to know what happens in chapter 19. Will they live? I must read on.

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  7. I really liked the first hanger! Made me shake right along with the character, nice job!

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  8. ...no hooks? just hangers?

    Love the short/sweet 'Poison gas' line :D

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  9. Whoa, what happened in Chapter 15?! I like "head lolling on hard wood," it gives me a good image to go with.

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  10. Kimberly, MsMariah, Leigh: Thank you. I wasn't sure if people would like these or not.

    Lynne: What makes it worse is that it's cold, and at night!

    J.A., Rachel: Thanks. I try to include good details, so the reader can visualize.

    Cassie Mae, Martin, 1000th Monkey: Do they live? That would be telling.

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  11. Yep! Those leave me begging to know what in the world is going on!!! Great hangers :)

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  12. Nice movement in the first two. In combination with the third, I really want to know what's going on!

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  13. I really like the third one. Only two words, but two words people never want to hear. I am interested in what comes next.

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  14. These are great, very visual and intense. The third one definitely has me hooked too!

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  15. Intense! My pick is Chapter 15!

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  16. "Poison gas" is a great way to end a chapter. Make me think the next chapter is a suspense filled action series.

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  17. Poison gas would make me turn the page faster than I could read the words!

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  18. Thank you, Hope, Emily, C.M., for your kind words.

    Jeannette, Nick, Stephen, and Ink: We agree that we all like poison gas, so long as it's happening to someone else.

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  19. Yeah, I want to know how that poisonous gas plays out.

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  20. These are simple filled with tension. I want to know more. Great job.

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  21. Cool sentences. Lot's of tension. Especially all of them.

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  22. Wow, somebody's world sure is falling apart. Great hangers!

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  23. Sounds like a lot of bad things happening! Great hangers!

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  24. Wow!

    This one is my favorite:
    My senses were overwhelmed as I lay there, head lolling on hard wood, and I couldn’t differentiate between the steam and the smoke obscuring my vision as I blacked out.

    Great writing!

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