another writing meme? could it be i'm procrastinating?
Still writing. Sort of. My aunt took me out to dinner because my parents are annoying the shit out of me.
Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!
There are twenty of them. I'd say it's about 50% original and 50% fannish, with the fannish leaning heavily towards TWW.
1) They walk in together, with Sam's arm wrapped firmly around Will's waist, and Will gives himself a moment of feeling sorry of Josh, of understanding how hard it must be to want so many conflicting things so badly, to have such tunnel vision, and to be so afraid to love other people.
2) He's not young, not that young, he's accomplished and qualified and he has a child, for christ's sake, and no idea where Danny gets off acting like he knows everything, like he knows Alan, just because he's less than a decade older than Alan is and has known him for less than a year.
3) "Battery acid is a 0," Doug said, "so yes. On the bright side, the pain from the bullet wound should eclipse the pain from having his internal organs eaten away by stomach acid."
4) "Hey, Princess," he said absently, "when your father is trying to kill me, please remind him that he started it, okay?"
5) Ronon snorted, but thankfully his animalistic art-student need to get laid kept him from sticking around to make another comment about John's cock and Rodney's unnatural obsession with it.
6) "If we all get fired because of your need to come out of the closet on national television, believe me when I say that Alan won't be the only person you're supporting on the one and a half million dollars you pulled in this fiscal year, buddy."
7) Danny still looked pale and tired, but less brittle; she wasn't afraid he was going to crumble under her hands anymore.
8) "I know you're secretly a nerd, but I didn't think you were so hard up for cool friends that you had to hang out in grocery stores," Keerthi said.
9) Danny liked to remind Alan that they could definitely afford to do it financially, and that Danny would, in fact, quite enjoy having a trophy husband, but Alan usually put an end to that line of thinking.
10) "I'm going to need significantly more liquor if I'm going to accept that as a logicial excuse," he said.
11) "'Hi, this guy who lives in my building stalks you from the bushes across the street, you should totally go over and say hi,'" Elsie says, and Will flips her off.
12) Sam could tell that she knew it wasn't crazy, that she was perfectly aware that Sam had no plans on coming to his father's wedding. Mothers knew everything.
13) "Well, unfortunately, while I have no problem outlining the history of a two-party system in American politics for hours on end, I know very little about plumbing."
14) He's not even sure what's going on inside his own head, but being with Sam would drown it out, it always did.
15) Will covers his face with his hands and wills himself to wake up, because there's no way he's comfortable living in a reality where his father pimps him out to the grandsons of European monarchs.
16) "Sam, the point of being a published author is to use your fame to get laid, not to hide your fame."
17) When Josh can't find Will, he takes it as a sign that whatever god may exist is sparing him the pain of actually having the conversation he apparently has to have.
18) "It's seventy-eight degrees and sunny in Guam and we could be on a plane this afternoon," Sam says before Will can even say hello, and he figures that's as close as he's going to get to an apology.
19) "Are you trying to tell me you've never had friends before, McKay?" Sheppard asked, raising an eyebrow.
20) "Sheppard, I swear to god, if you help me get out of this, I will build you a flying robot if that's what you want," Rodney insisted, and the hell of it was, John actually believed him.
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I know we're supposed to post them out of context, but I will say that the person that Keerthi is talking to in number eight is not one of her friends, but rather Danny XD
Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!
There are twenty of them. I'd say it's about 50% original and 50% fannish, with the fannish leaning heavily towards TWW.
1) They walk in together, with Sam's arm wrapped firmly around Will's waist, and Will gives himself a moment of feeling sorry of Josh, of understanding how hard it must be to want so many conflicting things so badly, to have such tunnel vision, and to be so afraid to love other people.
2) He's not young, not that young, he's accomplished and qualified and he has a child, for christ's sake, and no idea where Danny gets off acting like he knows everything, like he knows Alan, just because he's less than a decade older than Alan is and has known him for less than a year.
3) "Battery acid is a 0," Doug said, "so yes. On the bright side, the pain from the bullet wound should eclipse the pain from having his internal organs eaten away by stomach acid."
4) "Hey, Princess," he said absently, "when your father is trying to kill me, please remind him that he started it, okay?"
5) Ronon snorted, but thankfully his animalistic art-student need to get laid kept him from sticking around to make another comment about John's cock and Rodney's unnatural obsession with it.
6) "If we all get fired because of your need to come out of the closet on national television, believe me when I say that Alan won't be the only person you're supporting on the one and a half million dollars you pulled in this fiscal year, buddy."
7) Danny still looked pale and tired, but less brittle; she wasn't afraid he was going to crumble under her hands anymore.
8) "I know you're secretly a nerd, but I didn't think you were so hard up for cool friends that you had to hang out in grocery stores," Keerthi said.
9) Danny liked to remind Alan that they could definitely afford to do it financially, and that Danny would, in fact, quite enjoy having a trophy husband, but Alan usually put an end to that line of thinking.
10) "I'm going to need significantly more liquor if I'm going to accept that as a logicial excuse," he said.
11) "'Hi, this guy who lives in my building stalks you from the bushes across the street, you should totally go over and say hi,'" Elsie says, and Will flips her off.
12) Sam could tell that she knew it wasn't crazy, that she was perfectly aware that Sam had no plans on coming to his father's wedding. Mothers knew everything.
13) "Well, unfortunately, while I have no problem outlining the history of a two-party system in American politics for hours on end, I know very little about plumbing."
14) He's not even sure what's going on inside his own head, but being with Sam would drown it out, it always did.
15) Will covers his face with his hands and wills himself to wake up, because there's no way he's comfortable living in a reality where his father pimps him out to the grandsons of European monarchs.
16) "Sam, the point of being a published author is to use your fame to get laid, not to hide your fame."
17) When Josh can't find Will, he takes it as a sign that whatever god may exist is sparing him the pain of actually having the conversation he apparently has to have.
18) "It's seventy-eight degrees and sunny in Guam and we could be on a plane this afternoon," Sam says before Will can even say hello, and he figures that's as close as he's going to get to an apology.
19) "Are you trying to tell me you've never had friends before, McKay?" Sheppard asked, raising an eyebrow.
20) "Sheppard, I swear to god, if you help me get out of this, I will build you a flying robot if that's what you want," Rodney insisted, and the hell of it was, John actually believed him.
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I know we're supposed to post them out of context, but I will say that the person that Keerthi is talking to in number eight is not one of her friends, but rather Danny XD