Meme time

[kangeiko]

To combat the rage (and caffeine-fuelled insomnia), memes.

Choose your genre show, answer the questions using episode titles from that show--if possible, don't repeat any.

I choose Babylon 5.



Are you a male or a female?
The Paragon of Animals

Describe yourself:
The Paragon of Animals

How do you feel:
Interludes and Examinations

Describe where you currently live:
A Distant Star

If you could go anywhere where would you go?
The Parliament of Dreams

Your favorite form of transportation:
Ship of Tears

Your best friend is:
The Face of the Enemy

What’s the weather like:
Darkness Ascending

Favourite time of day:
A Fall of Night

If your life was a TV show, it would be called:
A View from the Gallery

What is life to you:
Learning Curve

Your fear:
The Illusion of Truth

What is the best advice you have to give:
Learning Curve

Thought for the Day:
Moments of Transition

How I would like to die:
Knives

My soul’s present condition:
Conflicts of Interest

My motto:
The Quality of Mercy



*

List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.


1. It's sweltering under the studio lights, and it doesn't seem to matter that it's still bloody freezing outside.
2. He likes his class for the most part, although there was a little too much meddling in their selection for his liking.
3. It doesn't work on him.
4. It sounds ridiculous, and he knows it.
5. "Are you sucking his prick?"
6. All the reputable feeds are today up in arms about Delaware banning an Army Babes calendar.
7. She thinks she would have liked a child.
8. At one point, maybe it was during February, they forgot all about you.
9. No, my dear, that is not correct.
10. Regular readers of my column will know that I have the same regard for my Editor as I do for the syphilitic geriatric necrophile who last month became convinced that my leg was the reconstituted corpse of his favourite porno star.
11. Sofie's a good girl.
12. We are so goddamned terrified of fear, you ever notice that?
13. Here she comes, walking through the / door in her lovely blue dress, / collar tight about her neck like a - / (noose!) / - bright pearl choker.
14. Men talk: / they're full of speeches and rhetoric and surely you see, / of this and that and don't you agree / and wouldn't you say, and my, isn't it lovely today.
15. It ain't something he'd normally ask for, and it sure ain't something he'd normally tolerate, this quasi-fucking-pity.
16. This is one of the things he's forgotten.
17. She aches all over, sores and cuts staining her tunic ruddy with every breath.
18. Harvey had never been particularly fond of mirrors, even as a child.
19. Kaylee looks full and ripe in her bridal finery.
20. When you were a child, you lived on the fourth floor of a ten-storey apartment block in one of the newer areas of the city, above an incontinent woman and a man with only one leg.

I don't know what the above say, other than I do a hell of a lot of writing for yuletide (fully 8 out of 20 fics are Yuletide-related).

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing most of these are in fandoms I don't know in the slightest, but (10) is priceless, (20) really pulls me in, and the two in verse are very strong. One of the things I've been learning from this meme is that sometimes a long first line is a good thing.

[kangeiko]

I've been doing a lot of yuletide which means I've been flailing all over tiny fandoms I've never written in before... it's been great fun, but also a bit scary. And I'm a lot-standing friend of the long first line!

[amatara.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that episode-name thingie is fun! I don't usually do memes (um, in fact I don't usually do very much apart from posting fic every other month or so *g*) but am severely tempted to give this one a try!

Your best friend is: The Face of the Enemy
Interesting... *thoughtful*
As in: a good enemy is better than a bad friend?

Re first lines: what strikes me in yours is the completely different tone/style/accent etc. used for each of them. Comparing 5, 10, 12, 15 and 19, for example - you manage to make them all sound totally unique. That's a fantastic quality to have as a writer, being able to switch style so easily.

[kangeiko]

*g* Some of those are actually from a similar time period, but they're from *very* different characters. :) I love distinct characters that have very particular speech patterns, how you can 'hear' the character in your head. It makes things so much easier. (Which is the problem I have with characters I find bland - I can't 'hear' them, so I can't write them.)