first lines meme
Jun. 15th, 2019 08:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
toujours_nigelflicked off musesfool. Rules: list the first lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.
agyana: “I thought you would be furious,” Yudhishtira said after everything was over, and only the bruises remained to remind Arjuna of his great feats.
pravilabhate: They meet again in Hastinapuri’s palace, its bright halls now a haven for ghosts, and Dushala screams at him for clinging to life when their brothers are dead.
life, the one you get: The first thing Peggy Carter does when she meets Steve Rogers for the second time is point a gun at him, her hand steady, the Walther PPK unwavering.
sukhin: Sita is ten when first she meets Shanta, once Princess of Ayodhya and Anga.
yashashvini: “Queen Kaushalya’s son will be Crown Prince,” Manthara says when she dances in, exultant. “Not yours at all.”
saputra: He holds Srutakarma in his arms the first time and realises he has no notion of how to be a father.
yukta: So they go, back to Nisadh after everything, Nala godlike in his divine raiment and Damayanti lovelier with the turning of years.
mugdhakriti: Hidimbi is not young when she meets Bhima, not by human standards, nor by those of her own long-lived folk.
dvitiya: She thinks better of Madri, once her anger abates.
kuhaka: When he is four and his sister one and all the brothers it is unsafe to remember in his waking hours ranged between five and twenty, a mendicant comes to Gandhar from the fertile plains of the Ganga, a woman a handful of years younger than his father, and “wary as a goat,” says Vrihadvala, and shrugs when Suka hushes him.
The only pattern I can see is that most of these stories begin after something significant has happened in the larger narrative, and the first line is a retrospect/summation. idk, I'm bad at spotting patterns.
musesfool. Rules: list the first lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.agyana: “I thought you would be furious,” Yudhishtira said after everything was over, and only the bruises remained to remind Arjuna of his great feats.
pravilabhate: They meet again in Hastinapuri’s palace, its bright halls now a haven for ghosts, and Dushala screams at him for clinging to life when their brothers are dead.
life, the one you get: The first thing Peggy Carter does when she meets Steve Rogers for the second time is point a gun at him, her hand steady, the Walther PPK unwavering.
sukhin: Sita is ten when first she meets Shanta, once Princess of Ayodhya and Anga.
yashashvini: “Queen Kaushalya’s son will be Crown Prince,” Manthara says when she dances in, exultant. “Not yours at all.”
saputra: He holds Srutakarma in his arms the first time and realises he has no notion of how to be a father.
yukta: So they go, back to Nisadh after everything, Nala godlike in his divine raiment and Damayanti lovelier with the turning of years.
mugdhakriti: Hidimbi is not young when she meets Bhima, not by human standards, nor by those of her own long-lived folk.
dvitiya: She thinks better of Madri, once her anger abates.
kuhaka: When he is four and his sister one and all the brothers it is unsafe to remember in his waking hours ranged between five and twenty, a mendicant comes to Gandhar from the fertile plains of the Ganga, a woman a handful of years younger than his father, and “wary as a goat,” says Vrihadvala, and shrugs when Suka hushes him.
The only pattern I can see is that most of these stories begin after something significant has happened in the larger narrative, and the first line is a retrospect/summation. idk, I'm bad at spotting patterns.
