Ok, hubby occupied upstairs playing 'master chief', darling daughter occupied playing Barbie camping adventures in her room on a torn up sheet, dutifully supplied by moi and me........well....... I am alternatively staring at a brilliant white page, and playing the "sims" or the "dim sims" as the DD calls them!! Proberly very apt.
Its not that I have nothing to say, but every aspiring author KNOWS that the first sentence has got to grab the reader, make them want to read more, and keep turning the pages until they get to end with a satisfied thumb! and ask themselves, ' I wonder if that author has MORE books I haven't read! '
So I can see the scene clearly in my head, dim lit corridors, the hush, yet subtle movement of people quietly going about their business in the small hours of the night. The electrical hum, the shoosh shoosh, of life support ventilators, the tired, slow movements of the Intensive Care Nurses as they go through their routines as if in slow motion, on automatic, in need of sleep and coffee and not neccesarily in that order!
After deleting ten times, I finally go with, "The quiet hum of the life support ventilators are the only sound that could be heard....." i know, I know, not gripping, not scintillating, but a start and at least it got me going to the bottom of page one, until I was interrupted by DD calling me "Grandma!!" HA! I have only a mother for 5!! telling me that she is leaving her 'baby' with me for 10 weeks while she has a holiday in Hobart!! Maybe she should write my book, she certainly has an active imagination.
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