First Line Challenge!
tagged by @doing-talking
RULES: List the first lines of the last ten stories you published. Look to see if there are any patterns that you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any! Then tag some friends.
ah geez I knew I hadn’t been writing much but this list goes back to 2016; not going to do the prompts because they are legion
- “For your situational awareness,” Phil says, a three-dollar Long Island in each hand, “these are mine. Go get your own goddamn drinks.” | Cinderella Story | MCU | Coulson/Clint
- “God,” Sam says, dropping to his knees, “oh, my God, Cas—” | Things to Come | SPN | Dean/Cas
- There’s a man named Jesse who spends most of morning rush hour on the grassy peninsula between two pieces of Constitution Avenue, right where it hits 23rd Street and splits to ramp up or down from the Roosevelt Bridge. | Not Just Anybody (Help) | MCU | Steve/Sam
- “I’m sorry, Dean,” Sam says through the cracked door, “but no. No way in hell.” | A Little Less Conversation | SPN | Dean/Cas
- Sunday 10:54 AM What are you doing tonight? | a strange thing and a known thing | SPN | Dean/Cas
- The third and final game of the day is Steelers versus the Colts, eight-thirty eastern time. | Lights So Bright | SPN | Dean/Cas
- Labor Day was big in Riverside. | September | Star Trek / Kirk/Spock
- It’s one of those days the sun barely touches, the sky grey, the grass all hoarfrost. | Maleficarum | Hannibal | Gen
- “This,” Sam says, hands braced on the dash, “this is why—” | Dollar in the Jukebox | SPN | Dean/Cas
- “They’ll get more real,” Dean says, looking down at the small, translucent robin that’s hopped onto the toe of his boot. | Boy with the Skeleton Hand | SPN | Dean/Cas
I LIKE DIALOGUE! I also apparently like Sam Winchester but that shouldn’t be news for anyone
One ‘’’‘writing rule’’’’’ (they are all just guidelines, there should never be actual rules for writing that’s so rigid and b o r i n g) that I really love and try to keep in mind is from chuck palahniuk or some other post-postmodern fuck, who once told a journalist he tries to start all his stories as close to the end as possible. How cool is that? No need to be out there all like, “There was Buttface, the One, who in Crapland is called Asshat; and he made first the Assholes, the Holy Ones.” Nope, you can cut right to the action and not miss anything and not have your story weighed down by extraneous exposition
so yeah dialogue lol
god who writes, uh, @lavenderek, @almaasi, @alullabytoleaveby, @pathsofpassion, @annundriel, @museaway, @marsastronomica, @klmeri, @whitmerule I follow way too many artists this is hard
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