Sunday 26 May 2019

First Hundred Words... Dog Den Mystery

I've been playing with the first 100 words of some of my books. To avoid cutting off in the middle of a sentence, I'll go to 100 and then add the rest of the sentence in question. Here's the opening hundred of Dog Den Mystery.

Round and round and round.
The paws are faster than sound.
Round and round, round and round, round and …
I was running my ninety-fifth lap of the boring backyard. There was nothing else to do, except sleep in my basket and chase sparrows.
Then Sarge came home.
‘We’re getting a transfer, Jack,’ he said.
Round and round and … ZOOOOP!
I skidded to a stop. I wagged my tail and did the paw thing. Sarge isn’t the brightest biscuit in the pack, but he knew that meant—
Great! Where are we going? Is Auntie Tidge coming?
‘Place called Doggeroo,’ said Sarge. He kicked my squeaker-bone so it squeaked.

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