Thursday Thoughts

The 7-7-7 Challenge

I was reading through Linda Cassidy Lewis’ blog this morning and came across her 7-7-7 Challenge post – which she tripled because she is awesome and is writing three books at the same time – and decided to heed her call to participate.

What is the 7-7-7 Challenge, you ask.

In a nutshell, it’s a great way to stir up a little excitement about one of your works in progress (WIP for all you non-writer types) and give folks a teeny-tiny taste of what’s to come. You go to page 7 of your WIP, skip down to line 7 on that page, and then share the next 7 lines in your draft.

7-7-7.

Ah-ha, you say.

In keeping with the spirit of the challenge, here is my 7-7-7 from the upcoming finale to The Sanctum Trilogy, THE PROPHECY:

Few would dare brave the outskirts of the forest, none would test its heart, for there was no telling what sorts of creatures lurked.

Villagers told tales of blood-sucking, demonic vampires and violent and gruesome trolls, anything to keep the children away when few, if any of them, had ever dared enter the forest, much less explore it in detail.

It was the bogeyman to end all bogeymen and the imps collected at its heart did not mind that characterization of their home one bit, for those tales, horror stories in fact, had kept them safe for millennia.

As the gods intended.

That’s it, folks. You now have my seven lines from page seven of Book III: The Prophecy. I hope to give you all of the lines from all of the pages sometime soon.

In the meanwhile, I want to keep this challenge going and sneak a peak at what my friends are working on these days, so I am picking a few lucky souls to follow suit and post their own 7-7-7’s. I’m calling out Kayti Nika Raet, Sabina Khan, Thelonious Legend, Claudette Melanson, Christa Wojo, and Lilo Abernathy.

In the words of Jay-Z

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!

Holla.