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The 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.

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Date: 2008-09-03 05:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] sarken.livejournal.com
You stare at the map on the computer screen, searching for a solution among the pixels.

I really like that one, especially the last half of it.

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Date: 2008-09-11 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] krazykitkat.livejournal.com
Thanks. Unfortunately it went downhill from there :\

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Date: 2008-09-03 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinkwriter.livejournal.com
"Screw it." from Eulogy is a particularly amusing first line.

: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)
From: [identity profile] krazykitkat.livejournal.com
Thank you :) And I'm glad they made you curious. I guess that means they work!

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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Date: 2008-09-04 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gossipcom.livejournal.com
Great now I feel like reading TWW fic. :)

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Date: 2008-09-06 12:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tangleofthorns.livejournal.com
This reminded me to reread my favorites (Athenaeum and Shades Of). and I love it.

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Date: 2008-09-11 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] krazykitkat.livejournal.com
Thanks, Hon. And those two are very special to me. Athenaeum is the closest to perfection I ever came. I still don't quite believe I wrote it.

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