The WIP meme
Mar. 6th, 2009 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
valarltdPost a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!
1) On the bright morning in spring, just after the drakkar had sailed taking the wild young men away to find land and glory or else Valhalla, Oleg went down to the sea.
2) “Paddle faster, I hear banjos,” Don sighed, leaning on the door of my little car.
3) This could be worse than the Vampire Night Auditor Debacle of 03, when a vampophobic manager had made four auditors work late.
4) Arnthor trudged through the snow, his feet wet inside the badly-made boots, and tapped the stupid geese with his stick to chivvy them back to their shed.
5) As he sipped some more coffee, he noticed a young man who looked familiar slouching down the street, peering in shop windows and generally acting as if he had no place to be, all the time in the world to get there and that both of these were a great burden to him.
6) He clutches the rigging where he is tied, determined not to make a sound.
7) Three hundred tail-lengths tall, the great palace rose in the heart of the city, buildings of shell and coral, bone and stone rising around it, but never equalling it.
8) He ran through the darkness of the forest, roots leaping out of the ground to trip him, branches seizing at his hair as if the wood itself was a living thing bent on helping his pursuers.
9) “In twelve hours, you will be expounding your Heinleinian-Nietschzean philosophy to Bruno 'the Mangler' Franzetti before he begins pounding on your ass."
10) The Pain-King had risen from a bed of nails when the spotlight came up and greeted the crowd with a cheerful patter about how important it was to get plenty of rest.
11) He'd wanted to call Queen Natasha a bitch since he'd met her, most unseemly in an eleven year-old meeting his new stepmother, and the urge had not dampened in nineteen years.
12) He was picking out a guy, crushing on him and would probably never even speak to him the whole semester.
13) "Lost in Rhenish and memory again," he grumbled, stopping himself as he reaching for Ringrose’s arm.
14) “And that means,” he grinned and boomed like a holoannouncer, “Commander Cliff Cody of the Space Exploration Rangers,” he dropped into normal tones, “wears his full regalia.”
15) “Who would replace Mother Mary with Mother Lilith?”
16) No one must know that Janine Delancy, the brave little crippled girl who brings such hope to so many is the twin sister of Gloria Cox, smut purveyor.
17) The Woods had gone to a couple PFLAG meetings, but there really isn't a lot of stuff for parents of a straight girl who dates a boy, who just happens to have periods in sync with hers.
18) But Steven’s handsome black face had been whitewashed, and his features digitally altered into European shape.
19) When she had danced them all to fiery dooms, using not only her best steps but modern Irish electronic folk, she had it at last.
1) On the bright morning in spring, just after the drakkar had sailed taking the wild young men away to find land and glory or else Valhalla, Oleg went down to the sea.
2) “Paddle faster, I hear banjos,” Don sighed, leaning on the door of my little car.
3) This could be worse than the Vampire Night Auditor Debacle of 03, when a vampophobic manager had made four auditors work late.
4) Arnthor trudged through the snow, his feet wet inside the badly-made boots, and tapped the stupid geese with his stick to chivvy them back to their shed.
5) As he sipped some more coffee, he noticed a young man who looked familiar slouching down the street, peering in shop windows and generally acting as if he had no place to be, all the time in the world to get there and that both of these were a great burden to him.
6) He clutches the rigging where he is tied, determined not to make a sound.
7) Three hundred tail-lengths tall, the great palace rose in the heart of the city, buildings of shell and coral, bone and stone rising around it, but never equalling it.
8) He ran through the darkness of the forest, roots leaping out of the ground to trip him, branches seizing at his hair as if the wood itself was a living thing bent on helping his pursuers.
9) “In twelve hours, you will be expounding your Heinleinian-Nietschzean philosophy to Bruno 'the Mangler' Franzetti before he begins pounding on your ass."
10) The Pain-King had risen from a bed of nails when the spotlight came up and greeted the crowd with a cheerful patter about how important it was to get plenty of rest.
11) He'd wanted to call Queen Natasha a bitch since he'd met her, most unseemly in an eleven year-old meeting his new stepmother, and the urge had not dampened in nineteen years.
12) He was picking out a guy, crushing on him and would probably never even speak to him the whole semester.
13) "Lost in Rhenish and memory again," he grumbled, stopping himself as he reaching for Ringrose’s arm.
14) “And that means,” he grinned and boomed like a holoannouncer, “Commander Cliff Cody of the Space Exploration Rangers,” he dropped into normal tones, “wears his full regalia.”
15) “Who would replace Mother Mary with Mother Lilith?”
16) No one must know that Janine Delancy, the brave little crippled girl who brings such hope to so many is the twin sister of Gloria Cox, smut purveyor.
17) The Woods had gone to a couple PFLAG meetings, but there really isn't a lot of stuff for parents of a straight girl who dates a boy, who just happens to have periods in sync with hers.
18) But Steven’s handsome black face had been whitewashed, and his features digitally altered into European shape.
19) When she had danced them all to fiery dooms, using not only her best steps but modern Irish electronic folk, she had it at last.
