the 123 meme ~

[lookingland]

i thought i would be a sheeple today:

Turn to page 123 in your work-in-progress. Count down four sentences and then instead of just the fifth sentence, give us the whole paragraph.

Lewis opened the box with perfectly deft fingers. For all he had been through, not a nerve in his body seemed rattled. Inside the box was a hard little block of what looked like solidified molasses. He held it up to me, puzzled.

yeah, not too exciting. but that's what came up. the "solidified molasses" is bow rosin. they're going through the effects of the dead men in their company and this belonged to Ed Alexander, the fiddle player who Lewis shoots in the first chapter of the book.



rosin is pretty and smells goooood.
: D

p.s. happy "pi" day, all.

Comments

[lanyn.livejournal.com]

Ooh! cool. "solidified molasses" is a neat description. Sort of does sum up what it looks like. :-D

[lookingland.livejournal.com]

thanks ~ ! later on is a like i've always liked: I turned the rosin over in my hands as if to look for insects in the amber. it's a nice reflection of the situation that they are currently "stuck" in ~ and one of those moments i think works pretty well.

this was fun ~ we should play more of these scavenger hunt types of writing games.

: D