Atreyu Eliot Star ([info]oneandonlytrey) wrote,
@ 2008-09-02 08:24:00
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Ganked from [info]crossbow1 and [info]dearmisswhite.

I'm just going with the things on [info]butyoumight so it might be missing some stuff. Especially since I haven't written anything in AAAAAGES.

Since I had a lot of chaptered stuff lately, each chapter that shows up will definitely have it's own line. XD

Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern.



1- The thing Gerard liked most about New York was that, even with smog and pollution and six thousand people milling around at every hour of every day, he could still breathe, somehow.

2- It was a little too warm in the room, though Ray was aware that his hair half-covering his face probably wasn’t helping.

3- Fink snarled at the crash that punctuated his bottle of rum smashing on the floor.

4- The giggle was unusually high pitched.

5- Billie Joe left John on the roof.

6- The purr in Frank's throat matched the familiar purr of the needle as it buzzed across his skin, making his fingertips tingle.

7- "You're fucking kidding me."

8- Sometimes, unexpected things, impossible things, happen.

9- Gerard blinked, startled, and turned to his boyfriend.

10- It was raining.

11- Jamia Nestor hadn't had a cigarette in over a year, not since she had temporarily taken up chain smoking in an effort to curb anxiety related to fear for the life of her best friend, practically brother, Frank.

12- Gerard lifted a hand into the air, waving widely.

13- Gerard told himself that the only reason he was taking such a risk was that the other boy was the only person in his line of sight that looked nearly as bored as he did.

14- Reflexive reserve kept Frank's eyes shut as he drifted back into consciousness.

15- 'This heist brought to you courtesy of The Manhattan Project.'

16- Frank blinked, eyes rapidly refocusing on the fingers snapping less than an inch from his nose.

17- The full moon had come and gone, but new moon or full didn't make any difference; in a month the weather had taken a turn for the worse, and thick black clouds blocked any hopeful light from reaching the earth, drizzling cold rain soaking the beach beyond where even the tides could reach.

18- Gerard tugged his shirt off over his head, folding it carefully, setting it down on the sand, standing straight again and tilting his head back, facing the sky, slowly breathing in the salt-sweet air.

19- Ray knew, from the moment Frank's face had lit up at the concept, that this was a terrible idea.

20- "Ah, shit, you're bleeding."

21- Gerard vaguely shook himself as he stepped into the sort-of clean-ish air above ground.

22- Ray used his elbow to open the door to his apartment, juggling a bag of groceries, a pile of mail, and a guitar case all at the same time.

23- The taxi was incongruous as it pulled up to the scene.

24- Gerard hung up the phone and continued puttering about the kitchen, exploiting his lack-luster skills in cooking, which still bypassed Frank's tendency to burn any and every thing he touched while within five feet of the stove.

25- Sometimes Frank wondered how he got into certain predicaments.


So I am apparently very fond of commas and run-on sentences. Awesome.




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[info]supersandoz
2008-09-02 06:35 pm UTC (link)
<3 i would do this meme thing but i don't think i've written 25 fics in my life. and none of them are recent. :/ but here's what i got to amuse you. ;) most recent first.

1 "You're not taping yet, are you?" he said, squinting from the harsh glare of the crudely set up spotlights.

2 Frank wasn't gay.

3 "This has to be perfect."

4 "Meesah Jar-Jar Binx! Meesah ruin da WHOOOOOLE movie!"

5 where's gerard?

6 "I'm scared," I mumble, finally finding my voice after hours of uncomforting silence.

7 it was wrong of me to do this.

8 I needed him.

9 Mikey stepped onto the bus quietly, holding his breath and trying not to laugh again.

10 i remember what they told me. "write it all down. every last detail. where you are, what you're doing, what you're thinking, who's around, what you're feeling... everything."


the pattern: i should probably never write fic ever. :/

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[info]cosmicdancer
2008-09-02 10:49 pm UTC (link)
I think it's easier to recognize patterns when you aren't the writer yourself, so I leave mine to your scrutiny. I've only done 15, because even these 15 span an entire year (some of them were quite long, you see).

1. "I hate you!"

2. Gaspard has always considered himself old-fashioned, he supposes.

3. Xavier is sitting in an auditorium in Montréal with his hand on Gaspard's knee, watching models' figures strain to fill out T-shirts with his friend's designs on them and beginning to develop a keen sense of irony.

4. He lies there spread out on the sand, California stretching out its banner of sky above him, the deep blue broken only by gentle ripples of clouds.

5. How does Xavier end up fucking Sébastian Akchoté? Well that's a funny story.

6. Bertrand's apartment is full of boxes and plastic toys; Xavier walks carefully across the floor, lifting up his towel to step over Transformers and tubes of paint.

7. "What's that?"

8. The deal is as such: Surkin (they call him that to piss him off, but he actually likes it) has become one of the many to move into the Justice Department for a lost weekend and come out a little more self-aware, a little less virginal than before.

9. Just minutes to midnight: the door cracks open and Xavier's slim shadow spreads out over the opposite wall as he enters, stretching and pulling his shirt over his head.

10. Gaspard thinks that he and Xavier should win an award for being the best people to leave at home alone.

11. Jet lag finally kicks in at about 30° N, 40° W and seven or eight hours of flying, when Xavier has finished with his litany of 'paper crafts I learned to do on WikiHow' and the stewardesses all know Gaspard personally (he's substituting caffeinated drinks for his usual vice of cigarettes).

12. "I think the dress code doesn't actually apply to the DJs," Gaspard says sheepishly.

13. It's actually Élodie who starts it all.

14. About five weeks after his twenty-first birthday, Andrew discovered there had been a big mix-up all along.

15. Andrew has taken almost enough English Lit for a minor in it, which doesn't make him want to write songs inspired by the classics of literature; on the contrary, he finds it the strangest thing.

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In the vein of third-party observations, I actually think there was a common pattern in many of yours -- you usually start immediately in the perspective of a character, either describing an action/chain of actions or a thought. Either that, or you start with descriptions.

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