Mmm, distractions!
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!
1. There was also the incident with the red pen, but really that book had just been so very wrong that Rodney had done the library a favor by annotating it.
2. “Flirting,” John says carefully, “is batting your eyelashes at someone you like.”
3. Torren stares up at him with the solemn fascination of a four-month-old and for a few moments Rodney feels like maybe he is more than equations and universal laws.
4. When he and Sheppard move with the military stealth they have been trained in for years, they are performing a clumsy approximation of the easy grace with which Teyla moves all the time-whether they are trying not to be caught, running for their lives, or merely walking the halls of Atlantis.
5. And John’s touch-John who defies all equations from his improbable hair to the astonishing number of times he’s returned from suicide missions-his touch reminds Rodney that the world doesn’t always have to be qualified by theories.
6. “And yet I still have the feeling that I’ll end up with a poisonous snake attached to my ass.”
7. "It is strange to me that you fear your own people more than the Wraith, but Ronon and I will help, whatever you need."
8. He turns his head, trying to decipher the difference between nightmare and reality as he blinks at the shadows in his bed that eventually resolve themselves into the shape of Rodney's body.
9. Sometimes he wonders if he’ll ever know everything about John Sheppard, if the list will ever be complete.
10. Rodney had a dim recollection of a morning a few weeks ago when he had smiled and nodded at Radek in an attempt to make him go away and Radek had smiled smugly back before heading off to the check-in desk.
11. And this, Rodney thought miserably, burying his face in his hands, was what happened when you took relationship advice from a thirteen-year-old.
12. "There was a duck inside a hare?"
13. “Of course your dog would be an idiot, too,” Arthur said.
14. Her brothers laughingly told her that she lived up to her name-her stories were like a spell that held her audience in a trance until she was finished.
15. “Anne Elliot,” she said, staring defiantly back at the woman.
Plus, oh, two or three more that are so woefully neglected as to not even be on my hard drive (having been burned to CDs when I switched computers four years ago). Though only one of those is probably actually worth the effort of trying to salvage.
1. There was also the incident with the red pen, but really that book had just been so very wrong that Rodney had done the library a favor by annotating it.
2. “Flirting,” John says carefully, “is batting your eyelashes at someone you like.”
3. Torren stares up at him with the solemn fascination of a four-month-old and for a few moments Rodney feels like maybe he is more than equations and universal laws.
4. When he and Sheppard move with the military stealth they have been trained in for years, they are performing a clumsy approximation of the easy grace with which Teyla moves all the time-whether they are trying not to be caught, running for their lives, or merely walking the halls of Atlantis.
5. And John’s touch-John who defies all equations from his improbable hair to the astonishing number of times he’s returned from suicide missions-his touch reminds Rodney that the world doesn’t always have to be qualified by theories.
6. “And yet I still have the feeling that I’ll end up with a poisonous snake attached to my ass.”
7. "It is strange to me that you fear your own people more than the Wraith, but Ronon and I will help, whatever you need."
8. He turns his head, trying to decipher the difference between nightmare and reality as he blinks at the shadows in his bed that eventually resolve themselves into the shape of Rodney's body.
9. Sometimes he wonders if he’ll ever know everything about John Sheppard, if the list will ever be complete.
10. Rodney had a dim recollection of a morning a few weeks ago when he had smiled and nodded at Radek in an attempt to make him go away and Radek had smiled smugly back before heading off to the check-in desk.
11. And this, Rodney thought miserably, burying his face in his hands, was what happened when you took relationship advice from a thirteen-year-old.
12. "There was a duck inside a hare?"
13. “Of course your dog would be an idiot, too,” Arthur said.
14. Her brothers laughingly told her that she lived up to her name-her stories were like a spell that held her audience in a trance until she was finished.
15. “Anne Elliot,” she said, staring defiantly back at the woman.
Plus, oh, two or three more that are so woefully neglected as to not even be on my hard drive (having been burned to CDs when I switched computers four years ago). Though only one of those is probably actually worth the effort of trying to salvage.