First lines of fic meme!

[alias_sqbr]

I think I may have done this before, but I have written new things since then. Stolen from various people on tumblr. Some of these are original fiction, but I write that exactly the same way as fic.

1. I saw Dee again today.
   
2. Maisie was in no mood for a ball.
   
3. It was getting easier to shoot people.
   
4. Cassandra was halfway through her second set of sword exercises before she realised someone was quietly trying to get her attention.
   
5. "You know that's not your heart right?"
   
6. "So...how are things in Kirkwall?" asked Varric, like it was no big deal.
   
7. He was dreaming again.
   
8. She caught her up in a punishing kiss.
   
9. "That is a pretty belt, Cassandra," said Leliana. "Did your secret admirer give it to you?"
   
10. They made the loveliest pair of brides Georgiana had ever seen.

And since I posted the finished fic recently but it's actually the first first line I ever posted to the AO3: "Mary Bennet was a very accomplished girl."

In my defense, 8 starts with an excerpt from a deliberately bad romance novel. I was tempted to add the comma that is, in retrospect, CLEARLY missing from 5 but that wouldn't be an accurate reflection of my writing style haha.

Overall I seem to write pretty boring first lines. Many of these are far more interesting in conjunction with the second line, though, eg for 1, "They were so thin, their skin dry as dust, and I could not bear to look them in the eye."

Comments

[bunny_m]

"So...how are things in Kirkwall?" asked Varric, like it was no big deal.


Ohhh, this is such a *perfect* capture of Varric, poor wee lad...

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks! That's the one line I'm 100% happy with :)