First Line Thoughts
Tried that game where you list the first sentence of your 20 most popular stories to see if there are patterns. No one tagged me, I just wanted to see if there was anything noticeable in my writing...and I honestly have no idea.
1. you give me something: Someone was watching her.
2. your words are mine to keep: (*does this count as a first line? It’s a digital epistolary work that starts with a log-in...)
Encryption Key: *********
Key Accepted
Decoding…
INBOX: 46 New
3. A Love Song: “Damn it, Draven, he always brings the girl in with him. What's he up to, leaving her out here this time?"
4. REBEL Y/N?: (*again, another digital epistolary work, so this is kinda the first line?) Andor [0913]: Is this training or punishment?
5. I might know my heart (*sequel to ‘you give me something’): Someone was watching him.
6. love is a verb: On Fest, stories do not begin with ‘once upon a time,’ and they certainly don’t end with ‘happily ever after.’
7. truth and trust: When Cassian is five years old, his uncle calls all his siblings and cousins in to the main house for a special Festival of Light treat, and tells stories about the fantastic people of the galaxy that he met on his merchant travels (before the big war with the droids and the Jedi took his leg and his eye and made his smile so nervous).
8. The Nakadia Job: The heavy smack of flesh on flesh echoes through the posh office of Ambassador Tichinde Bonu, followed by the tinkling of broken glasses and the thud of a body hitting the richly carpeted floor.
9. Time Sensitive: “Brace yourself,” Cassian told Jyn as she settled into the co-pilot seat next to him, the lights of the cockpit glinting on her heavily-gelled hair. “We’re about to hit the gravity field.”
10. between your bones and your soul: Cassian, Jyn knows, is a liar.
11. Cold Comfort: It’s probably going to be a shit day.
12. A Light To You In Dark Places: Something was wrong with Bodhi and Cassian, and Jyn didn’t know what.
13. A Thousand Times Between Our Eyes: “Objective achieved!” Alban crows in Cassian’s earpiece, his grin obvious in his voice.
14. She Ain’t Mrs. Robinson: There were a lot of reasons a low-tier soldier might get called up to the Alliance Command center, Lenny knew.
15. lions in her heart, fire in her soul: It takes Jyn exactly three days after officially joining the Alliance to get in her first brawl, and honestly, she’s not sure why anyone is surprised.
16. lift your open hand: For once, Jyn is up before Cassian; she pops awake about an hour before day shift is scheduled to start, gets in a quick breakfast, a light workout, and a five-minute sonic shower before Cassian even starts to pulls himself out of the bunk.
17. the heart is hard to translate: “What,” Jyn demanded suddenly into the comfortable silence of the U-wing, “does ‘lave’ mean?”
18. These Days of Joy and Pain: “Camera, second column on your left, three meters high,” Cassian said quietly into his cocktail, one arm folded casually over the balcony railing of the casino’s upper level.
19. the fundamental things apply: Jyn was a better liar than most people seemed willing to credit her, kept alive by years of both running deception ops for Saw and then surviving among the smugglers, grifters, and conmen of the galaxy’s seediest underworlds.
20. the waiting’s been so long (so long): Cassian is exhausted, and it’s partially Jyn Erso’s fault.
No seriously, I don’t see a pattern. Maybe I’m just too close to the subject matter? Well anyway, this was fun.
