I’ve seen this floating around, but I finally got tagged. 🙂 I have Jeff Clough to thank for it. No, really, I like to do these. LOL Anyway, here are the rules:
1. Grab your current work in progress.
2. Find the first occurrence of the word “look.”
3. Copy that paragraph and a few surrounding paragraphs.
4. Post them to your blog.
5. Tag five other people.
Ok, I’m going to break the last rule. Although I LOVE to be tagged for stuff like this, I know others don’t necessarily want to take the time, so I’m not putting anyone on the spot. But here is the except from my book containing the first instance of the word “look”:
“My Nikolas, I have a gift for you,” she murmured as she kissed him. He was lost. He wrapped his arms around her and wanted only to stay here with her for eternity.
He kissed her deeply and urgently, but soon she pulled back and looked at him. Smiling, she said, “And now for my gift.”
I know that’s short,but the surrounding paragraphs would give part of the story away, which I don’t want to do in case someone reading this decides to read the book. 🙂
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Love it! I hate tagging people, too. I do it a lot anyway… but yeah, some peeps don’t dig it, ya know?
Ooh… I wonder what the gift is? Great paragraph, Lauralynn!
Thanks, Darlene. The gift is…well, questionable. LOL
What’s the gift? I’m intrigued already.
Yeah, like I’m going to tell you what the gift is. Hahahahahaha.
I’m betting the ‘gift’ is something food related. Is it cheesecake? I’m really craving cheesecake!
Ha ha, Hubbard, not even close. Although, with my propensity to describe food too much in my books, I can see where you might have gotten that idea. LOL
I know what the gift is. hehe Won’t say what though. But I doubt it’s what anyone will expect.
LOL, beta readers have inside info.
Intriguing short excerpt. I understand not giving away the secret of the gift… especially if it’s so important that you can’t tell us!
Just kidding. I have my own idea of what the gift is, and if I’m guessing right, I know why you don’t want to give it away.
Very nice!
Because of the subject matter, you probably have guessed the “gift”. 🙂 Thanks for not giving it away.