I wasn’t technically tagged to do this, but @shmisolo did it so I decided to give it a bash. (To all people who have recently tagged me in memes that I haven’t got around to doing, I'm sorry.)
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.
She’s on her way home, smiling at the distant, already lit lights of Oxford Street, sliding past the trickle of busy families and people laden with shopping bags filled to bursting with brightly coloured presents, and she’s breaking off the tip of her pie (banoffee, sometimes it seems she’s the only one that likes it, but she’s never one to turn down any flavour, considering) when she remembers. -- i won’t breathe (i can’t hide)
He was in Romania when they found him. -- The Price of Freedom
The first thing Kylo does when he folds himself into the car is switch off the radio. -- In Cars
The crowd at the top of the hill murmured and parted as he arrived. -- destiny (fate has smiled upon us)
Some of them are in that hazy sleepy state of drunk; others are giggly, and some are talkative. -- untitled prompt fill for @cuquas
Shmi felt small. What little possessions she had were wrapped in a burlap pack, her knuckles clenched white around it. -- by the ocean’s edge (i’m afraid, i’m afraid)
When she gives birth to another child, she knows their stages. -- star among the stars
“Come with me,” he whispers into her ear, while they’re surrounded by posh political types (civil servants, staffers with complicated titles that Sally can’t remember) at a Christmas party, and she says her goodbyes to a group who already have forgotten her face before she follows him out of the ballroom into the lonely, quiet corridor. -- untitled salcroft prompt fill for @introspectivenavelgazer
“I never thought I’d see you in chains before me.” -- untitled reylo prompt fill for @introspectivenavelgazer
Leia Organa smiles proudly as she links Finn and Rose’s hands. -- prompt fill for anonymous
What’s the pattern? I used to think there was no real pattern to my opening lines, but now I’m realising that I find it hard to start a story with an action or a piece of dialogue. I think this is mostly because of my screenwriting degree (excuse me while I light a cigarette in a pretentious manner, and smoke it, pretentiously, doused in black and white and speaking with an outrageous French accent). A script always starts with the setting, and that seems to have bled into how I write my fanfic.
Tagging: @aionimica @kylo-wouldnt-like-those-chips @valsansretour and anyone else who wants a go. My brain’s mush at the mo, sorry I couldn’t think of anyone else!