twenty first lines...
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prof_pangaeai have never done one of these, but today i decided to, possibly because i am insane or a masochist. the first lines meme, nicked from a good portion of the flist: take the first line of your last 20 stories and see what this says about your writing. i bent the rules slightly and post a bit more than one sentence in a couple of cases. one thing i definitely know it says is that i really need to finish more fic, since about 75% of the lines are from unfinished fics. sigh. i'll bold the ones that are actually done and posted anywhere at all.
01. (a) When he first started thinking about it, he said nothing to Rose and told himself it was because he didn't want to presume, not this early in their tentative relationship.
01. (b) John Noble sat at Jackie's kitchen table, eating breakfast and reading an article in the paper about Robbie Williams's tattoos.
02. The Master watched the Doctor struggle against the iron grip of two Autons on the platform beneath him and laughed.
03. The Doctor had been travelling alone for one hundred and seven years when he found the Master on the sixth moon of Balangor, leading an experimental rocket group.
04. He wasn't really sure how he'd come to be backed up against the wall of Jackie's bedroom, tie undone and moaning into Jackie's soft, sweet mouth.
05. The professor stood underneath a large, spreading oak. The promise of spring was held in the tiny green leaves which unfurled, fresh and vibrant, all along its branches. Holmes watched him from afar.
06. "You would have done it too."
"Yeah, i would have," he snapped. "I would have left you and taken the flippin' TARDIS if I had half a chance but I didn't so here we are."
07. John stared at his dark ceiling. He had a fading impression of green light bathing him, surrounding him; of panels and crystals and plugs beneath his hands, warm and reassuring.
08. Jackie had known it would never work. She had first hand experience in that sort of thing, after all.
09. "I saw the inevitable long before it happened. I knew what we would have to do, and I knew how to do it."
10. The confession had fallen from his lips so easily with the Master.
11. The Resurrection Room was just slightly oppressive, Romana thought.
12. "Professor! Professor, don't open that watch! Professor --!"
13. The Doctor steps outside of the TARDIS, frowning. He's grumpy because he's just not in the mood for the TARDIS to be in one of her moods, jostling him all over this way and that because she's stroppy because he's a bit stroppy, but he's not stroppy, he's just missing Ace, and all right, also Hex, and who wouldn't?
14. The Rani really should have known better than to do business with the Master, but she had thought that even he couldn't botch up something as simple as a trade.
15. "You talk about it as though it's alive."
"Don't be ridiculous," he said, his voice scandalised. "Of course she is."
16. The Doctor woke to the soft, reassuring sound of low voices.
17. Martha Jones groaned and rolled over, fumbling with the little alarm clock radio on the shabby end table at the head of her bed.
18. The Master stood alone in an echoing chamber, surrounded by banks of information terminals and flickering holograms.
19. Gould refused to be carried, which resulted in a rather awkward and trying half hour as Holmes on one side, and Russell on the other, slowly and carefully manoeuvred the old man to his room.
20. "How long have you -- known?" Poor, dear Watson.
oh man. well, i think this tells us that 01: i need better first sentences and 02: i should probably finish some of these things and get them off my harddrive.
01. (a) When he first started thinking about it, he said nothing to Rose and told himself it was because he didn't want to presume, not this early in their tentative relationship.
01. (b) John Noble sat at Jackie's kitchen table, eating breakfast and reading an article in the paper about Robbie Williams's tattoos.
02. The Master watched the Doctor struggle against the iron grip of two Autons on the platform beneath him and laughed.
03. The Doctor had been travelling alone for one hundred and seven years when he found the Master on the sixth moon of Balangor, leading an experimental rocket group.
04. He wasn't really sure how he'd come to be backed up against the wall of Jackie's bedroom, tie undone and moaning into Jackie's soft, sweet mouth.
05. The professor stood underneath a large, spreading oak. The promise of spring was held in the tiny green leaves which unfurled, fresh and vibrant, all along its branches. Holmes watched him from afar.
06. "You would have done it too."
"Yeah, i would have," he snapped. "I would have left you and taken the flippin' TARDIS if I had half a chance but I didn't so here we are."
07. John stared at his dark ceiling. He had a fading impression of green light bathing him, surrounding him; of panels and crystals and plugs beneath his hands, warm and reassuring.
08. Jackie had known it would never work. She had first hand experience in that sort of thing, after all.
09. "I saw the inevitable long before it happened. I knew what we would have to do, and I knew how to do it."
10. The confession had fallen from his lips so easily with the Master.
11. The Resurrection Room was just slightly oppressive, Romana thought.
12. "Professor! Professor, don't open that watch! Professor --!"
13. The Doctor steps outside of the TARDIS, frowning. He's grumpy because he's just not in the mood for the TARDIS to be in one of her moods, jostling him all over this way and that because she's stroppy because he's a bit stroppy, but he's not stroppy, he's just missing Ace, and all right, also Hex, and who wouldn't?
14. The Rani really should have known better than to do business with the Master, but she had thought that even he couldn't botch up something as simple as a trade.
15. "You talk about it as though it's alive."
"Don't be ridiculous," he said, his voice scandalised. "Of course she is."
16. The Doctor woke to the soft, reassuring sound of low voices.
17. Martha Jones groaned and rolled over, fumbling with the little alarm clock radio on the shabby end table at the head of her bed.
18. The Master stood alone in an echoing chamber, surrounded by banks of information terminals and flickering holograms.
19. Gould refused to be carried, which resulted in a rather awkward and trying half hour as Holmes on one side, and Russell on the other, slowly and carefully manoeuvred the old man to his room.
20. "How long have you -- known?" Poor, dear Watson.
oh man. well, i think this tells us that 01: i need better first sentences and 02: i should probably finish some of these things and get them off my harddrive.
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Date: 2009-07-31 06:05 pm (UTC)Edit: I am a dolt and somehow missed your rather obvious "Holmesiana" tag the first time.
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Date: 2009-07-31 07:05 pm (UTC)Heeee! *wants*
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Date: 2009-07-31 09:05 pm (UTC)also there's a lot of sameness. "[Name] does/thinks something." hmmm.
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Date: 2009-08-01 08:31 am (UTC)eta: link (http://community.livejournal.com/sizeofthatthing/3359.html?thread=2411807#t2411807). i want to clean it up before posting anywhere else.
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