Old fics
Tonight I head up to Columbus with the Toast to visit Bob, our 6th member, who's kinda a MoHo trapped in a boy's body and it taking summer classes so that he can complete his triple-major on time. Srsly.
We're going to the State Fair and will be having all kinds of fun. And I'm missing work, which is good because I hate my job with an unrivaled passion.
Also my parents are going to a couple's councillor today... they're not a couple. My dad's just crazy enough to believe that once you marry someone you stay married to them, miserable or not, until the day one of you stabs the other to death with a fondu fork, and not before. And my mom's just poor and stressed and a complete doormat.
I disapprove.
I am very sick of being home with them and am dreaming of the day when I have my own apartment and never have to speak to either of them again.
To cheer myself up, meme from
kazie_komikcat
List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.
1. One year before the founding of Konoha:
The Senju clan was on a mission.
2. He started walking her home from school after Iruka got concerned over the bruises, the black eye, and finally the broken arm.
3. "Lube... where's the lube?"
4. “Ooh, look, girls! A fortune teller!”
5. Life is full of maybes and what-ifs.
6. “How do you tie one of these things?” Kisame growled, fumbling with the black bow-tie on his white chef uniform.
7. Konoha was not home to many big franchises.
8. Tsume Inuzuka had the kind of maternal instinct that could derail a train.
9. "Mizukage-sama?" Kisame knocked respectfully on Madara’s doorframe in their little hideout before entering the office.
10. Once upon a time, Naruto reflected, his life had been rated PG.
11. Fakir only ventured into town these days when he needed vital supplies... food, soap, a fresh gallon of ink, a ream of paper, that kind of thing.
12. It started, as these tales so often do, as another night in Death City.
13. "Come on, Iruka," Kakashi grew tired of holding his seductive pose on the bed and flopped gracelessly onto his stomach, throwing a pillow through the open bedroom door and onto the desk in the next room over, where Iruka was pouring over something for work.
14. “Day one over,” the Kazekage sighed, pulling his bag off of the single pack mule that made the journey down to Konoha with his entourage twice a year.
15. Gaara was the least favorite child in his family (thus was sent to live with his bi-polar uncle), and therefore never really got an accurate impression of his father.
16. This is a story about a family.
17. Sasuke blinked.
18. Sasori dropped the arm of the marionette he had been repairing on his work desk and stood, returning to the tangled forest of preserved limbs and puppet strings that hung in the depths of his ‘workshop’.
19. "Gaara’s locked himself in the library.”
20. “Hey, ‘Tachi, do you want to play?”
Well, I start with a short-ish declarative sentence that gives a character and a situation. (I write like I'm six.) But look at how many of these aren't from Naruto! And look at how few of them mention the Hyuugas in the very first sentence! Aren't you surprised?
We're going to the State Fair and will be having all kinds of fun. And I'm missing work, which is good because I hate my job with an unrivaled passion.
Also my parents are going to a couple's councillor today... they're not a couple. My dad's just crazy enough to believe that once you marry someone you stay married to them, miserable or not, until the day one of you stabs the other to death with a fondu fork, and not before. And my mom's just poor and stressed and a complete doormat.
I disapprove.
I am very sick of being home with them and am dreaming of the day when I have my own apartment and never have to speak to either of them again.
To cheer myself up, meme from
kazie_komikcat
List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.
1. One year before the founding of Konoha:
The Senju clan was on a mission.
2. He started walking her home from school after Iruka got concerned over the bruises, the black eye, and finally the broken arm.
3. "Lube... where's the lube?"
4. “Ooh, look, girls! A fortune teller!”
5. Life is full of maybes and what-ifs.
6. “How do you tie one of these things?” Kisame growled, fumbling with the black bow-tie on his white chef uniform.
7. Konoha was not home to many big franchises.
8. Tsume Inuzuka had the kind of maternal instinct that could derail a train.
9. "Mizukage-sama?" Kisame knocked respectfully on Madara’s doorframe in their little hideout before entering the office.
10. Once upon a time, Naruto reflected, his life had been rated PG.
11. Fakir only ventured into town these days when he needed vital supplies... food, soap, a fresh gallon of ink, a ream of paper, that kind of thing.
12. It started, as these tales so often do, as another night in Death City.
13. "Come on, Iruka," Kakashi grew tired of holding his seductive pose on the bed and flopped gracelessly onto his stomach, throwing a pillow through the open bedroom door and onto the desk in the next room over, where Iruka was pouring over something for work.
14. “Day one over,” the Kazekage sighed, pulling his bag off of the single pack mule that made the journey down to Konoha with his entourage twice a year.
15. Gaara was the least favorite child in his family (thus was sent to live with his bi-polar uncle), and therefore never really got an accurate impression of his father.
16. This is a story about a family.
17. Sasuke blinked.
18. Sasori dropped the arm of the marionette he had been repairing on his work desk and stood, returning to the tangled forest of preserved limbs and puppet strings that hung in the depths of his ‘workshop’.
19. "Gaara’s locked himself in the library.”
20. “Hey, ‘Tachi, do you want to play?”
Well, I start with a short-ish declarative sentence that gives a character and a situation. (I write like I'm six.) But look at how many of these aren't from Naruto! And look at how few of them mention the Hyuugas in the very first sentence! Aren't you surprised?