BOOK: The Sequel
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BOOK: The Sequel is now available!
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Be sure to read excerpts of sample sequel sentences. (Say that 5 times fast!)
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this fun (and quick) project!
Ever wonder what happens to Harry Potter after twenty years of marriage and a steady government gig?
Or what Karl Marx would say about today’s financial crisis?
If the Bible had a sequel, what would its first sentence be?
Write that sentence and you could be published! It’s easy!
- Pick a book.
- Imagine its sequel.
- Write the first sentence.
- Give it a great title.
- Click Submit Sequel Now! to enter.
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Some inspiration to get you started:
See, I was right. —From Das Kapital 2 (sequel to Das Kapital by Karl Marx)
HappyMeals are all alike; each unhappy meal is unhappy in its own way. —From Anna McKarenina (sequel to Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy)
Bob Marley was dead, to begin with. —From Kwanzaa Tunes (sequel to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens)
All animals are equal, except those with swine flu. —From Mexican Animal Farm (sequel to Animal Farm by George Orwell)
Featured Submissions
Obama, Obama Blue Pajama Our new president Thanks his mama Obama kisses His daughters’ heads Obama thinks about What lies ahead Obama Obama Blue Pajama Starts to build a cabinet Obama never breaks a sweat President Obama wants a change Starting with New York Stock Exchange Keeping people in their homes So the future's not on loan —From Obama Obama Blue Pajama (sequel to Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney) Submitted by Mary Talalay, Contributing Writer, Kiwi Magazine
It turned out not to be the worst of times at all; they got so much worse later. —From A Tale of Three Cities (sequel to A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens) Submitted by Clive Priddle
Draw near and I will tell you a tale of the one that got away. —From The Old Man and the Sea, by Shlomo Ben Ishmael (sequel to Moby Dick by Herman Melville) Submitted by Edmund Glass
Well, that didn't work out. —From The Bible II: So Satan Won (sequel to The Bible by God) Submitted by Anonymous
Mr. Bilbo Baggins would soon celebrate his eleventy-eleventh birthday, and he was suffering from an excrutiating boredom of endless, special magnificence. —From The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Diminished (sequel to The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien) Submitted by Anonymous
I really like death; Tyler isn't here. —From Death Club (sequel to Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik) Submitted by Anonymous