First Day and First Line

Not mine, but a great first line for the first day of NaNoWriMo.

"Punctually at six o'clock the sun set with a last yellow flash behind the Blue Mountains, a wave of fiolet shadow poured down Richmond Road, and the crickets and tree frogs in the fine gardens began to zing and tinkle."

Ian Fleming - Dr. No.

I hope that my NaNoWriMo first line will eventually be this lyrical, but I doubt it. I like Fleming becasue he reminds me of James Dickey of Deliverance fame and Pat Conroy. I think they all sound poetic when they write.

As to my NaNo effort, I'm writing the thriller about the burglar that I posted last week. Moving onward and upward from mysteries.