Apr. 1st, 2021

thrillingdetectivetales: Davie and Alan from the play, Kidnapped, kissing on the moors. Both men's faces are obscured. Davie has a hand on Alan's cheek. (Default)
A lovely little meme I borrowed from the delightful [personal profile] darvyn:

List the first lines of your last 10 stories (if you have fewer than 10, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line.

The full gamut is behind a cut, for space reasons, but... )

...I think my favorite out of all of them is the opener for Highway to the Edge. It does the best job of establishing character voice and conflict, imo, and I feel like the words "murder plot" are kind of an automatic hook to swindle someone into continuing to read at least a little further.

It has also become very clear to me, when weighing the first line from something like Curtain Call—which is a piece I wrote quite some time ago but only very recently posted—against the others, that I've gotten better at writing, in general. I still have a tendency to overwrite, but I think I've worked on my flow a lot and managed to hit a point where it's not necessarily a bad thing that I get florid at times.

I'm not sure that I have a pattern, per se, though I am pretty proud of my consistency when it comes to just flinging the reader straight into the action.

What are some of y'all's favorites of your own?

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thrillingdetectivetales: Davie and Alan from the play, Kidnapped, kissing on the moors. Both men's faces are obscured. Davie has a hand on Alan's cheek. (Default)
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