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synecdochic: the first lines of your last twenty stories, with analysis at will. Because nothing says "putting off writing" like "analyzing stuff I've already written."
1. They'd been back from Tibet long enough for showers and square meals and everyone's ears to finally readjust to normal air pressure--but not long enough to actually relax--when Gwen sat bolt upright, tugged a monitor screen around, and said, "Oh, hell."
2. They had guns.
3. "Dad," Jenny shouted.
4. They'd walked half the length of the beach before Rose seemed to make up her mind that she was speaking to him.
5. Donna was trying to decide whether she was relieved or disappointed at the absence of truly weird alien sexual practices (the rigorous dental hygiene portion of the proceedings was a bit odd, but not odder than half the perfectly human blokes she'd been with, really) when the Doctor suddenly sat up.
6. There was something deeply unsettling about a Jack Harkness too tired to take his own or anyone else's clothes off, but Ianto was too tired to be properly unsettled by it.
7. The first few hundred feet of the trip were easy enough, just one more of the Hub's wrought-iron spiral staircases.
8. The morning after Jon and Cassie broke up, Brendon found a kitten in Jon's bunk.
9. Charlie woke up hot, sticky with sweat and half smothered under Don's arm and the sheet that had somehow wrapped itself around him.
10. It wasn't like Bob had actually had to think about it.
11. While the house is heavy and silent with the recency of their father's death and the imminence of their mother's, Michael intrudes upon Gerard's solitude to find him puzzling over a ledger with a wine bottle open upon the desk.
12. Gerard stared.
13. Brendon came into the front lounge looking like he'd just had a revelation.
14. Deep in the forest, high in the hills above the village, a holy woman lived in a cave on the edge of a glen.
15. "Okay," Frank said, eyeing the clock and doing the depressing math one more time.
16. Jon was pretty sure that the first time he said anything about it was in an interview, which would have been a shitty way to do it if it had been a big thing.
17. Brendon loved Ryan, and Ryan loved Brendon back.
18. The part that didn't make sense, at first glance, was the spoon.
19. Gerard got dressed as fast as he could, but when he stepped off the bus it was obvious he hadn't needed to hurry.
20. The knock came while Gerard was painting his right middle fingernail.
So... boy, I wrote a lot of bandom stories in a row there. And then stopped.
And, uh... sometimes my first lines are quite pithy! And sometimes they go on a bit. I have a pretty good memory for my own writing, so it was interesting to see which first lines I had totally forgotten (like #13) versus the ones that are etched into my brain associated with the story (#2 for perhaps obvious reasons, #8, 17, 18).
Apparently a first line is supposed to do several things at once, and I think some of them at least approach that. \o/
synecdochic: the first lines of your last twenty stories, with analysis at will. Because nothing says "putting off writing" like "analyzing stuff I've already written." 1. They'd been back from Tibet long enough for showers and square meals and everyone's ears to finally readjust to normal air pressure--but not long enough to actually relax--when Gwen sat bolt upright, tugged a monitor screen around, and said, "Oh, hell."
2. They had guns.
3. "Dad," Jenny shouted.
4. They'd walked half the length of the beach before Rose seemed to make up her mind that she was speaking to him.
5. Donna was trying to decide whether she was relieved or disappointed at the absence of truly weird alien sexual practices (the rigorous dental hygiene portion of the proceedings was a bit odd, but not odder than half the perfectly human blokes she'd been with, really) when the Doctor suddenly sat up.
6. There was something deeply unsettling about a Jack Harkness too tired to take his own or anyone else's clothes off, but Ianto was too tired to be properly unsettled by it.
7. The first few hundred feet of the trip were easy enough, just one more of the Hub's wrought-iron spiral staircases.
8. The morning after Jon and Cassie broke up, Brendon found a kitten in Jon's bunk.
9. Charlie woke up hot, sticky with sweat and half smothered under Don's arm and the sheet that had somehow wrapped itself around him.
10. It wasn't like Bob had actually had to think about it.
11. While the house is heavy and silent with the recency of their father's death and the imminence of their mother's, Michael intrudes upon Gerard's solitude to find him puzzling over a ledger with a wine bottle open upon the desk.
12. Gerard stared.
13. Brendon came into the front lounge looking like he'd just had a revelation.
14. Deep in the forest, high in the hills above the village, a holy woman lived in a cave on the edge of a glen.
15. "Okay," Frank said, eyeing the clock and doing the depressing math one more time.
16. Jon was pretty sure that the first time he said anything about it was in an interview, which would have been a shitty way to do it if it had been a big thing.
17. Brendon loved Ryan, and Ryan loved Brendon back.
18. The part that didn't make sense, at first glance, was the spoon.
19. Gerard got dressed as fast as he could, but when he stepped off the bus it was obvious he hadn't needed to hurry.
20. The knock came while Gerard was painting his right middle fingernail.
So... boy, I wrote a lot of bandom stories in a row there. And then stopped.
And, uh... sometimes my first lines are quite pithy! And sometimes they go on a bit. I have a pretty good memory for my own writing, so it was interesting to see which first lines I had totally forgotten (like #13) versus the ones that are etched into my brain associated with the story (#2 for perhaps obvious reasons, #8, 17, 18).
Apparently a first line is supposed to do several things at once, and I think some of them at least approach that. \o/