Jun. 12th, 2019 07:42 am
First Lines Meme
Saw a couple of people doing this and it looked fun, so I'm gonna give it a try too: Rules: list the first lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.
One of these fics was actually originally uploaded to my Tumblr in 2017 but not to AO3 until November 2018 because I forgot but everything else is from the past 12 months so apparently I've written fics in 3 different fandoms in the span of a year, which is a lot for me.
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So, patterns. Well, 4 of these are dialogue. 3 of them set the scene, and the rest are either the beginning or the middle of a scene. I do tend to like to drop readers right into where the action is happening and then fill in the surrounding details as I go, so that's not surprising. Almost all of them have the name of one of the main protagonist in it, and most of them are the pov character (but not all).
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tinny I find it easier to come up with a first line than a last line. I don't remember if I ever go back and edit the first lines and I think I probably don't. Or at least, not significantly. Because the first line sets the mood for how I'm writing the rest of the fic and usually by the time I go to do edits, that line serves as such a foundation for the story that the rest would fall apart without it.
One of these fics was actually originally uploaded to my Tumblr in 2017 but not to AO3 until November 2018 because I forgot but everything else is from the past 12 months so apparently I've written fics in 3 different fandoms in the span of a year, which is a lot for me.
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So, patterns. Well, 4 of these are dialogue. 3 of them set the scene, and the rest are either the beginning or the middle of a scene. I do tend to like to drop readers right into where the action is happening and then fill in the surrounding details as I go, so that's not surprising. Almost all of them have the name of one of the main protagonist in it, and most of them are the pov character (but not all).
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tinny I find it easier to come up with a first line than a last line. I don't remember if I ever go back and edit the first lines and I think I probably don't. Or at least, not significantly. Because the first line sets the mood for how I'm writing the rest of the fic and usually by the time I go to do edits, that line serves as such a foundation for the story that the rest would fall apart without it.Tags: