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[kyra_neko_rei]

I started to write, of all things, a story about werewolves.

The first line, which oh-so-helpfully came to mind while at a Christmas party an hour away from home when I didn't think to bring any sort of notebook-type thing, is as follows:

I woke up on the Waningmorn naked, deeply scratched up, lying in a pool of sticky blood too large to be all

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[deepseasiren]

love first lines.
First lines are often the very hardest to write. Once it gets written however, then the rest seems to flow.

[kyra_neko_rei]

For me they seem to be the easiest, in a way, and at the same time the hardest. I always want to make them grab the reader and make hir want to know more. It's the first burst of pure creativity.

[kyra_neko_rei]

*grins* I know! "Too much blood for it to be all mine" is GOOD?

Yeah, I got this thing going where EVERYBODY is a were of some sort, and society has adapted around that little detail. So there's social divides between canines and felines, a religion of moon worship, and everything compensates for that once a month everybody spends three days out of commission and comes out of it with no memories, even though they occasionally kill each other.