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birlcholtz · 3 years

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First Story Lines

thanks for the tag @the-lincyclopedia!

Rules: List the first lines of your last 5-20 stories. See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line. Then tag others!

alright i'm going to try to go in reverse chronological order but it might be approximate since i'm going by posting date for most of them and not when i actually started it. also this is probably going to showcase the fact that i write things in phases--i tend to prioritize one fandom (or just one type of writing) at a time

Evan died on Tuesday night. (survived by)

Petunia Evans loved her sister. (WIP)

Regulus knows Sirius is leaving. (WIP)

When Regulus gets on the train to Hogwarts, his parents do not wave goodbye. (Heart of a Lion Rewrite)

The first day after the revolution dawned bright and warm. (as-of-yet untitled sequel to Rainfall)

Jack can almost feel the clock ticking down on his last Samwell preseason. (Pie and Prejudice)

Renee's latest hobby is mentally writing texts to Allison Reynolds. (A.J.R.)

Jean leaps out of the car, flies up the stairs to the third floor, yanks his key out of his pocket, slams the door to their apartment open, closes it more gently behind him, and runs into the kitchen. (Double Text)

If Jeremy had to pick one person to talk to for the rest of his life, it would be Jean. (Wait)

This is not the first time Larissa's hands have itched to pick up staff paper and pen, to commit to memory the way Justin's voice rises and falls when he reads his poems to her. (the point of creation)

Chowder starts small. (blue skies)

Mobs don't just spring up out of nowhere. (liar, liar)

Graduation, like everything that's happened in Chowder's senior year, is bittersweet. (haus 3.0)

There's a knock at Lardo's door right as she's submitting her last econ problem set. (send duckling pics)

Hausgiving this year is still a current-team-only event, but Bitty's quite pleased with what he and Shitty have dubbed 'Hausgiving 2.0' and what Lardo refers to exclusively as 'Hausgiving aftershocks.' (2 Haus 2 Giving)

Suzanne has often heard it said that life brings you unexpected things. (puck drop)

Bitty is waylaid by Ransom and Holster only seconds after he sets foot in the living room of the Haus. (let's do this)

Lardo has a key to the Haus, and she uses it all the time, but usually she doesn't use it at two in the morning. (Race You)

When Chris meets Jack Zimmermann, the first thing he thinks is, I thought he'd be taller. (Being Chowder)

When Andrew opens the door, he is greeted with the sight of Neil. (Hi, Andrew)

okay let’s see... i think a lot of my first lines tend to be very short, indicative things? most of the time there’s A Thing That Happens, but there’s no dialogue. the longer ones also tend to be fluff/humor, while with the short ones there’s a lot more variety (the first five on this list are all quite short and on the angsty side of things, for example, although they vary in how much they slam people with it, while #6 and #7 are also really short but those fics are funny/fluffy)

as for my favorite, i honestly don’t know??? i do like #1 a lot because it’s just. wham. something else i noticed, though, is that i frequently have a kind of one-two punch with the first couple of sentences? off the top of my head that happens in #5, #8, #9, and #20, and i’m sure it’s in everything i wrote for friendship week to some extent. so like the first sentence is often pretty declamatory and then the second sentence adds ~flavor~

i feel like #5 is going to change a lot before i finish writing rainfall #2

oh goodness i .... don’t want to come up with people to tag so anyone who’s reading this rn and has at least a handful of fics to analyze, do this!!!

#tag games

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