WELCOME TO WEEKEND WRITING WARRIORS!

Hello, all!
 
This week I've decided to try something new. I've teamed up with a new set authors on a blog hop. This time we're bringing you eight sentences from our novels. I've chosen my eight this week from ABANDON ALL HOPE.

She fought through a head rush and scrambled to

find something to wear that didn’t need to be ironed. On the way out the door, she grabbed a diet soda from the fridge, and an oatmeal cookie from a package on the kitchen counter. Oatmeal IS a breakfast food, she reasoned. Twenty short minutes after her alarm clock didn’t ring, she rushed out the door and hustled up the street, filled with a multitude of people who had apparently set their alarm clocks incorrectly as well.

Despite this bad start, at exactly 8 a.m., Hope entered the conference room clutching her portfolio determinedly—determined to make the best of her rotten day; determined not to be stuck with another story about the wallaby’s birthday at the zoo, or some elderly lady winning her ninth consecutive quilting bee; determined to win a hard-hitting news story she could make memorable. Though she had been a photographer for the paper for years, it had only been about six months since she first requested a writing assignment. Since then, she had been stuck with the crap stories no one else wanted to take. But that would not be the case today.


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14 comments:

  1. It's her great day! Fingers crossed!

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  2. I happen to agree that oatmeal cookies make a GREAT breakfast! I can't wait to find out what her scoop is. You can't help but root for her, after getting all the "crap" cases! Great snippet :)

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    1. Thanks, Susan! Did you happen to notice that we almost share the same last name?:)

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  3. Love your sentences, M.J. Something tells me Hope's day is not going to get better!

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    1. It's funny how there are those days though, where it seems nothing can go right. Or those days where it seems like everyone in the traffic you are in has forgotten the rules of the road! Sometimes you feel like you've run an obstacle course just getting to work! Thanks for reading and commenting, Sharon. I appreciate it!

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  4. Whew! Of all days to be running late! And I wonder what's different about this story! Nice 8. Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors. Glad to have ya! :-)

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  5. Good for her, she's in for a busy day good job she ate that oatmeal cookie! Exciting snippet.

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    1. Thanks, Gemma! I'm afraid Hope's breakfast eating habits may reflect mine...

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  6. Well at least she has some nourishment with that cookie! I hope her day lives up to her hopes, excellent excerpt!

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    1. Thanks, Veronica. By the end of the day she's gonna be wishing she had something different, like a shot of tequila!

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