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krazykitkatThe first lines meme. And more just random 25 stories rather than my last 25.
1. You stare at the map on the computer screen, searching for a solution among the pixels.
-- unposted fic, Stargate Atlantis
2. Daddy went back to work two days after the funeral.
-- Redshift, The Pretender
3. The banging of the hot water pipes will wake her at 5am.
-- What-ifs, Judging Amy
4. She knocks on his door twenty minutes after her father forgets to breathe.
-- Need, West Wing
5. The sun's too bright and he stumbles to the window to pull the curtains.
-- Life But Not Quite As We Know It, West Wing
6. Screw it.
-- Eulogy, West Wing
7. It will end the way it began.
-- Happy, Never,After, West Wing
8. She slowly got out of bed.
-- How Could I Ever Know, West Wing
9. "I only thought I saw it."
-- Dusk, West Wing
10. They follow the steps laid out the first time.
-- Reservations, West Wing
11. Another campaign stop.
-- Taking a Dip, West Wing
12. He will begin to lose his mind three years and five months before he stops breathing.
-- lullaby for the new world order, West Wing
13. She turns her office chair towards the window and slumps into it.
-- The Real World, West Wing
14. Amateur.
-- Shades Of, West Wing
15. "You should brief in blue jeans."
-- The tingle in my jeans, West Wing
16. She only raised her head off the arm of the couch when he slammed the french doors closed.
-- Fish, Flies and Showerheads, West Wing
17. She wasn't exactly sure how she ended up with her pants around her ankles and her cheek pressed against the desktop.
-- The Lifeboat, West Wing
18. At sixteen, David Rose charmed her into the backseat of his Chevy Impala.
-- All the Wrong Places, West Wing
19. A little gasp escaped her lips as her spine hit the wall.
-- Inscription, West Wing
20. She will be gone long before she leaves.
-- Gone, West Wing
21. You've been on the campaign trail for five weeks when she arrives to meet him at some non-descript hotel in middle America.
-- untitled snippet, West Wing
22. The absence of sound wakes her.
-- untitled ficlet, West Wing
23. She should've stammered, blushed, backed out of the room.
-- drabble, West Wing
24. She'd always been an open book.
-- Athenaeum, West Wing
25. I slowly surface through the layers of sleep, becoming aware of a pressure on my cheek and a soft breeze fanning my face.
-- Sweet Sighs and Broken Pleasures, West Wing
So basically my first lines are short, simple, and nothing spectacular. A majority start with a pronoun. Was interesting going through my stories, as someone who writes a lot of dialogue, it's really only the drabbles or ficlets that may start off with dialogue.
1. You stare at the map on the computer screen, searching for a solution among the pixels.
-- unposted fic, Stargate Atlantis
2. Daddy went back to work two days after the funeral.
-- Redshift, The Pretender
3. The banging of the hot water pipes will wake her at 5am.
-- What-ifs, Judging Amy
4. She knocks on his door twenty minutes after her father forgets to breathe.
-- Need, West Wing
5. The sun's too bright and he stumbles to the window to pull the curtains.
-- Life But Not Quite As We Know It, West Wing
6. Screw it.
-- Eulogy, West Wing
7. It will end the way it began.
-- Happy, Never,After, West Wing
8. She slowly got out of bed.
-- How Could I Ever Know, West Wing
9. "I only thought I saw it."
-- Dusk, West Wing
10. They follow the steps laid out the first time.
-- Reservations, West Wing
11. Another campaign stop.
-- Taking a Dip, West Wing
12. He will begin to lose his mind three years and five months before he stops breathing.
-- lullaby for the new world order, West Wing
13. She turns her office chair towards the window and slumps into it.
-- The Real World, West Wing
14. Amateur.
-- Shades Of, West Wing
15. "You should brief in blue jeans."
-- The tingle in my jeans, West Wing
16. She only raised her head off the arm of the couch when he slammed the french doors closed.
-- Fish, Flies and Showerheads, West Wing
17. She wasn't exactly sure how she ended up with her pants around her ankles and her cheek pressed against the desktop.
-- The Lifeboat, West Wing
18. At sixteen, David Rose charmed her into the backseat of his Chevy Impala.
-- All the Wrong Places, West Wing
19. A little gasp escaped her lips as her spine hit the wall.
-- Inscription, West Wing
20. She will be gone long before she leaves.
-- Gone, West Wing
21. You've been on the campaign trail for five weeks when she arrives to meet him at some non-descript hotel in middle America.
-- untitled snippet, West Wing
22. The absence of sound wakes her.
-- untitled ficlet, West Wing
23. She should've stammered, blushed, backed out of the room.
-- drabble, West Wing
24. She'd always been an open book.
-- Athenaeum, West Wing
25. I slowly surface through the layers of sleep, becoming aware of a pressure on my cheek and a soft breeze fanning my face.
-- Sweet Sighs and Broken Pleasures, West Wing
So basically my first lines are short, simple, and nothing spectacular. A majority start with a pronoun. Was interesting going through my stories, as someone who writes a lot of dialogue, it's really only the drabbles or ficlets that may start off with dialogue.
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Date: 2008-09-03 05:22 pm (UTC)I really like that one, especially the last half of it.
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Date: 2008-09-11 03:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-03 05:48 pm (UTC):D
I like them all, but these made me especially curious to read on:
"It will end the way it began."
"I only thought I saw it."
"She knocks on his door twenty minutes after her father forgets to breathe."
"I slowly surface through the layers of sleep, becoming aware of a pressure on my cheek and a soft breeze fanning my face." (that one's especially pretty)
Good stuff! And thanks for including the links, because now I can come back and read them all. :)
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Date: 2008-09-11 03:15 pm (UTC)It's funny, I don't particularly like that last one. Partly because it's one of the very rare times I used first person, and I'm not a fan. And it doesn't "feel" like me, much more description and physicality than my normal, and it just feels awkward to me. Maybe it's because I'm not comfortable writing like that, so it seems off to me. Not sure if any of that makes sense...
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