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The first lines meme. And more just random 25 stories rather than my last 25.
1. You stare at the map on the computer screen, searching for a solution among the pixels.
-- unposted fic, Stargate Atlantis
2. Daddy went back to work two days after the funeral.
-- Redshift, The Pretender
3. The banging of the hot water pipes will wake her at 5am.
-- What-ifs, Judging Amy
4. She knocks on his door twenty minutes after her father forgets to breathe.
-- Need, West Wing
5. The sun's too bright and he stumbles to the window to pull the curtains.
-- Life But Not Quite As We Know It, West Wing
6. Screw it.
-- Eulogy, West Wing
7. It will end the way it began.
-- Happy, Never,After, West Wing
8. She slowly got out of bed.
-- How Could I Ever Know, West Wing
9. "I only thought I saw it."
-- Dusk, West Wing
10. They follow the steps laid out the first time.
-- Reservations, West Wing
11. Another campaign stop.
-- Taking a Dip, West Wing
12. He will begin to lose his mind three years and five months before he stops breathing.
-- lullaby for the new world order, West Wing
13. She turns her office chair towards the window and slumps into it.
-- The Real World, West Wing
14. Amateur.
-- Shades Of, West Wing
15. "You should brief in blue jeans."
-- The tingle in my jeans, West Wing
16. She only raised her head off the arm of the couch when he slammed the french doors closed.
-- Fish, Flies and Showerheads, West Wing
17. She wasn't exactly sure how she ended up with her pants around her ankles and her cheek pressed against the desktop.
-- The Lifeboat, West Wing
18. At sixteen, David Rose charmed her into the backseat of his Chevy Impala.
-- All the Wrong Places, West Wing
19. A little gasp escaped her lips as her spine hit the wall.
-- Inscription, West Wing
20. She will be gone long before she leaves.
-- Gone, West Wing
21. You've been on the campaign trail for five weeks when she arrives to meet him at some non-descript hotel in middle America.
-- untitled snippet, West Wing
22. The absence of sound wakes her.
-- untitled ficlet, West Wing
23. She should've stammered, blushed, backed out of the room.
-- drabble, West Wing
24. She'd always been an open book.
-- Athenaeum, West Wing
25. I slowly surface through the layers of sleep, becoming aware of a pressure on my cheek and a soft breeze fanning my face.
-- Sweet Sighs and Broken Pleasures, West Wing
So basically my first lines are short, simple, and nothing spectacular. A majority start with a pronoun. Was interesting going through my stories, as someone who writes a lot of dialogue, it's really only the drabbles or ficlets that may start off with dialogue.
1. You stare at the map on the computer screen, searching for a solution among the pixels.
-- unposted fic, Stargate Atlantis
2. Daddy went back to work two days after the funeral.
-- Redshift, The Pretender
3. The banging of the hot water pipes will wake her at 5am.
-- What-ifs, Judging Amy
4. She knocks on his door twenty minutes after her father forgets to breathe.
-- Need, West Wing
5. The sun's too bright and he stumbles to the window to pull the curtains.
-- Life But Not Quite As We Know It, West Wing
6. Screw it.
-- Eulogy, West Wing
7. It will end the way it began.
-- Happy, Never,After, West Wing
8. She slowly got out of bed.
-- How Could I Ever Know, West Wing
9. "I only thought I saw it."
-- Dusk, West Wing
10. They follow the steps laid out the first time.
-- Reservations, West Wing
11. Another campaign stop.
-- Taking a Dip, West Wing
12. He will begin to lose his mind three years and five months before he stops breathing.
-- lullaby for the new world order, West Wing
13. She turns her office chair towards the window and slumps into it.
-- The Real World, West Wing
14. Amateur.
-- Shades Of, West Wing
15. "You should brief in blue jeans."
-- The tingle in my jeans, West Wing
16. She only raised her head off the arm of the couch when he slammed the french doors closed.
-- Fish, Flies and Showerheads, West Wing
17. She wasn't exactly sure how she ended up with her pants around her ankles and her cheek pressed against the desktop.
-- The Lifeboat, West Wing
18. At sixteen, David Rose charmed her into the backseat of his Chevy Impala.
-- All the Wrong Places, West Wing
19. A little gasp escaped her lips as her spine hit the wall.
-- Inscription, West Wing
20. She will be gone long before she leaves.
-- Gone, West Wing
21. You've been on the campaign trail for five weeks when she arrives to meet him at some non-descript hotel in middle America.
-- untitled snippet, West Wing
22. The absence of sound wakes her.
-- untitled ficlet, West Wing
23. She should've stammered, blushed, backed out of the room.
-- drabble, West Wing
24. She'd always been an open book.
-- Athenaeum, West Wing
25. I slowly surface through the layers of sleep, becoming aware of a pressure on my cheek and a soft breeze fanning my face.
-- Sweet Sighs and Broken Pleasures, West Wing
So basically my first lines are short, simple, and nothing spectacular. A majority start with a pronoun. Was interesting going through my stories, as someone who writes a lot of dialogue, it's really only the drabbles or ficlets that may start off with dialogue.