Service Update This Month's "One Perfect Sentence" Contest is Open!

[AgentPete]

Like some reanimated mutilated corpse in a giallo B-movie filmed by Dario Argento…

It’s back!

This month’s One Perfect Sentence is open.

So is your mind.

Let them communicate with each other.

Thread 'One Perfect Sentence - October 2024'

Oct 6, 2024

Last month’s OPS had a broad brief: I asked you to create the first sentence for a book in the Romance genre.

This month, I’m looking for you to conclude the same book… But without writing the intervening 60, 80 or even 100 thousand words.

That’s right – I’d like your best closing sentence.

It can be as long or as short as you want.

We interpret “Romance” pretty loosely.

So what do I want out of your best closing sentence?

The same as always: emotional impact.

This will not be quite as easy as before. In real life, your reader will have read the entire book, will be very...

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[Bloo]

I completely missed the "Romance" bit last time around. You put it in bold, and still I didn't clock it

So yeah...that's why my entries didn't sound right.