Meme of First Lines, yet again

[browngirl]

Mmm, Monday mornings.

One of the great things about the First Lines meme is reassuring your friends that you're actually writing. May was a hellacious month, but I have several stories of short-but-more-than-drabble length in rough draft form, and should hopefully be able to polish and post them in June and July. (And then I'll get to stories like my "Year of Troubles" linked tales that don't actually have text written yet.)



"Midsummer Pudding"
Remember the shire_kitchen Recipe Fic Challenge? Contemplating my audience there, I submitted my het and gen bunnies for it. This is the slash bunny I had for it.
"Hullo, Sam," Merry said, bouncing into the kitchen. "What's that you're making?"

"That Certain Conversation"
Because I actually do think about the implications of the "cheerful nonmonogamy" I've written into my Shire.
It was as pretty a day as Bilbo had ever seen, sunny and bright.

"Breredon"
I have such a fascination with hobbit OCs. I'm probably going to get roasted on some Mary Sue site for this one, but I put Hawthorn through several tests, and I don't think she is a Mary Sue.
"So how," Pippin murmured into Hawthorn's soft brown hair, his arms snug round her little waist, "did such a lovely lass come to grace hoary old Budgeford? I know you weren't here when last I turned by Bolger Hall."

"A Drop of Ocean"/"This Drop of Sea" (which title sounds better, do you think?)
Rosie didn't know how she knew. She just knew.

"Party Games"
I've been working on this off and on for a YEAR now. Goodness gracious, that's ridiculous.
'Sam, yes, Sam, just like that...'

"Near Kin"
Oh, I have so much to say in this story. I'm just not sure if I can accomplish it.
Mr. Merry always put Sam in mind of thunder.

"Telling the Dream"
Just a bit of hobbitsmut. Right now the fandom doesn't really need a trivial, fluffy F/M, with daffodil_bolger writing an amazing, profound F/M series, so I'm letting this one wait a bit for another day.
Hazy summer sunlight and the Brandywine's babble...."Merry." Frodo's voice, warm in his ear, Frodo's touch, seemingly all over his skin.... "Mmm, yes." Merry moans, sinking into warmth....'

I'm also still working on Patching Up and A Full Fair Day, which were profiled during WIP Amnesty Week, so there's no point re-posting their first lines here.





"The Virtues of Pajamas"
Crackfic for pikakao, based on some of her drawings and one in specific. (I should make a mental note to link to that drawing in the story.)
"Emergency Preparedness Tips," Bart read aloud, while Wally gritted his teeth and for the umpteenth time did not swear. "Bart, I don't think I need---"

"Best Man" petronelle proposed a challenge, and I'm working on a story for it.
So, when she floats into his room a few hours later and sits on the side of his bed he has no idea what to think. <--not the actual first line, but the first line of what I have.

"1001 Uses For A Cape"
This is the long-owed OT3 story I promised issendai, but my Tim-voice in it is still not quite there. I may need to find a beta for it. Or several more issues of YJ.
"Hey, look at that, I think the truck's crashing!" Bart exclaimed, swerving sharply. Tim dug his fingers into Bart's slick shoulders to hang on. "There's no time---"

"Shades of Red"
This one definetely needs a beta (it will probably be my story for making_sausage), and may never get off the ground. I've found the distance between what I want to say and what I'm succeeding in saying frustratingly wide in this one.
"Well, she's almost certainly Ariadne Pinxit." Tim takes off the large brooch that housed the facial scanner; he already plugged the scanner into the laptop as soon as the hotel room door shut behind them.

"Inkblots"
I think I finally have a Tim Drake in my head, though I'm not sure how recognizeable he is to anyone else. I'm working on that. Oh, and the fact that there's no slash stories based on the issue of Gotham Knights I'm basing this on still boggles me. Someone else must have written about that scene...
Sometimes, Tim sees patterns at the edges of his vision.

"Than are Dreamt"
Even before i read the anvilly canon on the subject, I noticed some parallels between Steph and Jason. (I'm also capable of seeing that the sky is blue. Note my brilliance.) Besides, I like writing het.
Steph was not going to stagger, and she was not going to yawn, no matter how damn tired she was.



A bonus: a bit of original fic I'm working on for my other journal, a sequel to my 2003 NaNoWriMo novel. If people are interested I'll post a link here when it's done.

"Dessi's Moment"
Sling in hand, Dessi narrowed her eyes; a flock of doves was whirling up out of the trees, disturbed by Dinas, and she slung pebbles at them as she watched them fly.

Comments

[petronelle.livejournal.com]

Yay having a Tim in your head.

It's a little scary trying out new character voices in a new fandom, but -- we're here for you, lady.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*big beaming smile* And I'm *really* glad of that. Thank you. :)

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

I have such a fascination with hobbit OCs.

A most understandable weakness. *grins*

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*grins at you* So how did I not know until recently that you are writing a long lovely story about a great OC, and a midwie to boot? The knowledge must have slipped my whirling little brain. Oooh , when I have time this summer I am going to read Lily's story from start to finish.

[lame-pegasus.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

And when I have time this summer I'll actually finish it!!! I just got rid of chapter 14 and 15, and there are still three missing...*big sigh*

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

"A Drop of Ocean"/"This Drop of Sea" (which title sounds better, do you think?)

It's a little hard to tell without seeing more of the story, but my initial reaction is that I like the second version better.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*nod* The story is Rosie during the week or so that Sam is gone seeing Frodo off to the Havens. If I had been her I'd've wondered if he were coming back.

[elanorgardner.livejournal.com]

You amaze me.

Is one of those your "That String Around Your Finger" fic? *peers at list*

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*giggle* I am blushing very much. :)

And as I emailed you, I didn't put my lj comm="hobbit_smut"> story in there, because that would have been Telling. :D

I'll post the story on the 13th, I think. It'd be fitting. :)

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Seeing as I got to read one of the drafts, I definitely don't think that Hawthorn is a Mary Sue. I love her, and the story that she's in -- and it's more like Pippin's listening in on it, than it being hers alone...

Love your writing. So, so much.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

It was such a reassurance, such a huge reassurance, that you found her a real character. I need to finish up that story and put it out there. :D

*hugs you tightly* Yay writing. :D

[danachan.livejournal.com]

Yay writing, indeed. :D *hugs you even more tightly*

And I did, and I would like to see the story all finished up and posted. Because then I could read it again, and I did so like reading it the first time around. Thank you for having let me, love.

*snugglepiles*

[abby-normal.livejournal.com]

Just a bit of hobbitsmut. Right now the fandom doesn't really need a trivial, fluffy F/M, with daffodil_bolger writing an amazing, profound F/M series, so I'm letting this one wait a bit for another day.

Um, hey, no fair. I mean, very sweet and thank you and all but no fair. How many times are you going to make me say that the world needs more F/M? *taps foot*

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

That it does, and more F/M there shall be. The story is on the back burner, not in the fridge. :D