Sharing Lines From My Fantasy Novel! 

There’s nothing quite like hearing a fellow writer read lines from their book to get you pumped to write your own! I can already tell so many people are going to adore your writing from what I’m seeing in these lines. Good luck for when you start querying!

"Like a hickey of the damned." is my favorite line out of these. That's so cool.

Yay!! This is awesome, so happy for you. Love this 🎉

I love this video concept so much!! Such beautiful lines :) Can’t wait to read DE one day!!

I love the idea of this video!! So excited for you.

Good morning, Sara and happy Monday! First off, I like your new sign in back of you in the video, and to be honest, all of the lines from your book sounded great, even poetic. Anyway, thank you for posting and sharing the lines from Project DE and I can't wait to read it. Happy editing or hiking today depending on your weather conditions. ❤

Great video idea! Loved all lines. Fav is probably the one about the sword sprouting from her heart. Very nice imagery there!

The line about the drumming sound of the hunters coming was my favorite. You did a great job building suspense in this video. I can't wait to read it!

Each passage you presented had a lot to say and/or imagine. I definitely like the feel of this story! Great job, Sara!

Wooo Lucky Number 13! Loved all these lines, each of them was so evocative

Wow these lines get me so excited to read your book when it comes out!!!

Your book sounds great! I love the way you write 😃

Omg I can’t wait to buy the book and highlight all the quotes 🤩

So cool to hear 333 get read out! I adore the alliteration, you definitely have a writing style I would mesh with well as a reader

i don't even need to wait to see if i "go on to enjoy this video", i come to your page bc i know i'm going to like it, because you're one of my favorites. y'all with the views and comments rn.. GO LIKE IT, YOU WON'T REGRET IT

OMG, you look like a mermaid in the thumbnail of this video! XP My favorite quote was the one about the queen's white cloak.

Can't remember if I suggested 17 or 19 (those are my favorite numbers!), but I'm glad you chose lines for both! This video was such a cool idea and I am so excited for DE! 💙

ahh!! this was awesome!! Ty for sharing!

You are glowing girl

Love your style & quotes, Sara! 💚 Looking forward to reading your book 📖 😊

DE definitely sounds fun 😮 These lines are gorgeous!

That was so fun! Thanks for sharing these with us :) Cannot wait to read your novel and understand the context behind all the lines you've read to us

Good luck. Finished mine last year but had no luck so far with agents to get it published :'-)

Sounds like a very interesting book from the variety of circumstances it must have some great depth.

7:57 this reminds me of what Shaelin talks about constantly: specificity in developing the setting/plot.

Maybe it’s just because I’m hungry but my favorite was #87 about the fried fish and maple pots 🤤 😂 all of the lines were so good though!

Love the line from page 52 about "long brewing, icy anger"!

It’s so crazy that this book has reached this point!

Have you thought of getting concept art commissioned for some of these characters? (Like Alvina, Mera, and them)?

Hunters stringing up witches? Loved all the lines and page 7’s got me hooked

5:19 I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one to make a Harry Potter reference 😂

I would spell judgment with one e, instead of judgement with two. Some people say both are acceptable, but my law school legal writing teacher insisted judgment is correct.

So what IS DE About?

you look like tinker bell! (in a good way, obvs)

Pitch... when will we get the pitch! 😩😩😍

On page 369, i really hope it says Dang you fine 😂

Fried fish and maple?? Now I'm hungry.

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Loved this! Another utah-based young author that I'm a huge fan of is writing a fantasy series and it's amazing! He would probably love if you checked out his channel, Author Luke Beckstrand :)

I love, "The man was mortal. And he would die." Yet I'm dying as a mortal to pick your brain a bit on why you chose to write things this way. It's contradictory to some of the introductory advice I'm receiving on creative writing. A lot of the advice I'm receiving might want to -- as a first iteration -- simply combine the two clauses to: "The man was mortal and he would die." Yet a lot of the dramatic effect, absent the abruptness of the period, seems lost to me that way; the combined sentence seems more matter of fact (logical) and not nearly as emotional or rhetorical as opposed to your version which uses the harsh period and corresponding pause as a dramatic wedge between the two clauses over the smoother, less dramatic version in the period's absence. Furthermore, the advice I'm receiving might encourage elimination of the second independent clause towards simply, "The man was mortal," on the account that "he would die" is redundant with his mortality. Still, I find such repetition often useful to hammer in points. As a former CompSci professor, I often utilized repetition (careful to repeat the same ideas in new ways for variety) very useful to emphasize key ideas that I particularly wanted my students to learn, especially remembering how I would sometimes get distracted as a student even for the briefest of moments and miss a key statement in ways that threw me off for the entire lecture. Or even if I wasn't distracted, I loved repetition of key points stated in varied ways to maximize the probability that the students particularly understood this one point. That's how I'm interpreting your use of the repetitious inclusion, "he would die," beyond its dramatic effect. Anyway, I love that line but I'm also very curious as to why you chose to write it that way! If you could take a moment to teach about your rationale, I would be so grateful. It resonates with something I find I repeatedly want to do in my own attempts at writing.