Apparently there is this writer’s meme going around the blogosphere. It’s called The Lucky 7 Game, and it’s basically a game of writerly tag. If you’re tagged, you have to do the following:
- Go to page 7 or 77 in your current manuscript
- Go to line 7
- Copy down the next seven lines/sentences as they are – no cheating
- Tag 7 other authors
Please note that the rules listed above are a compilation of the two variations on the rules I’ve seen from the two people who tagged me — Kait Nolan and Victoria Scott.
This is scary. But also fun. Like a roller coaster! Or your mom. OHHH.
Anyway, here is a teensy excerpt from the (recently completed!) first draft of my second middle grade novel, The October Year. I went with the 7 sentences from page 7 option. I hope you enjoy!
You might think it’s weird, that I’d wish my own home would burst into flames. You might also think it’s weird that my home was a symphony hall. Emerson Hall, to be exact, one of the oldest buildings in the city.
I thought it was weird, too.
In fact, I hated it.
And I liked hating it.
Two years ago, the Maestro had actually had the nerve to tell me it’d be fun, to move into Emerson Hall. It’d be fun to sell our house and auction off our furniture and put everything we owned into three secondhand suitcases, to save the orchestra.
“The Maestro,” by the way, is the narrator’s father. O, the angst!
And I shall tag:
Have fun, everyone!
