Sentence Sunday

melissa_writing has declared a Sentence Sunday. Since I haven't done one of these before, I'm posting her whole explanation here.

Rules:
For those of you new to this game, here's how it works:

1) It's done on a day that includes "-day" as the last three letters.
2) You pick a bit of text in keeping w the request. (Today it will be page 123)
3) You share.
4) You tell us what you like abt it.
5) We all get to read.
6) There's a tendency of others to reply to each other. (I like this, btw.)

THE REQUEST: Again, the request this time is "page 123" . . . Go there in one of your manuscripts. Start at the first full sentence, and give us a short excerpt.

My Excerpt:

I thought about doing one from Into the Reach or Departure, since those are still hard to track down, and I know not everyone has read them. But my desire to show something new won, so this is a bit from p. 123 of the (still unedited) manuscript for Regaining Home.

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What I like about it:

Writing an all-out war was a new thing for me, an undertaking that was much bigger than I realized it would be. So in order to handle something that *big,* I tried to capture little moments of it that would show the scope, but also make it personal. I think it worked.

Your turn
melissa_writing has an excerpt up from Ink Exchange. Six or eight other writers (I was going to list them, but there were too many) have played back over in the comments, so there are plenty of excerpts to read today!