First Sentence Meme
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meddowIt's that first sentence meme, nicked from a few people on my flist. Except I decided to post a bit more than the first sentence but rather a hefty chunk of couple of abandoned fics because having looked back on it, I like what I wrote and the fact that it shall never see the light of day saddens me a bit.
1. While Donna Noble knew that the series of events that had led to her being manhandled by security guards and bundled into a van had begun the day she had been given a job at HC Clements. She also knew that the major event in all of this was when she had met the Doctor, since it was always the Doctor that they were interested in. – From Upon the Upland Road
2. “Obviously they put something in the wine, you know, so that we…” - From Five Ways to Avoid Martian Sex
3. The most interesting thing about a Time Lord, Donna had decided, was his pockets. – From Pockets
4. Donna had a goldfish. He wasn’t actually sure about from where she had acquired it, but there it floated, in a bowl on a shelf in the TARDIS’ third kitchen. – From Garry
5. “No, Brigadier…Yes…No…Carmeliun Four…Yes…Yes, he’ll be back soon…No, I’m sure he hasn’t left me behind…No...Alright…Goodbye Brigadier.”
“Really, this is beyond childish, Doctor, this is infantile,” Sarah said as she put the phone down. - From Human Interest
6. If Kelsey Harper had been listening a bit more closely when her teacher was telling her class the story of Odysseus, she might have compared walking down Bannerman Road to choosing between the legendary monsters of Charybdis and Scylla. – From Between a Rock and a Hard Place
7. It appears that the truth is emerging about last week’s events at Canary Wharf. The ghosts that so readily became a prominent feature of our lives are quickly being forgotten, just as those cybermen that entered our homes and threatened our families. We shall dismiss what happened that day along with it we shall dismiss those that lost their lives in a battle about which we have no truth. But before we do, someone has to ask: what happened to Rose Tyler? – From What Happened to Rose Tyler?
8. James Norrington. Defiant boy. Stubborn man. It is past your time. – From For Honour a Heart's Demise
9. “Lost my cousin, lost my mentor and then lost my father,” Tonks announced as she placed down a card. – From Meanwhile Somewhere Off the Mortal Coil
10. "So what do you want to know?" – Post Journey's End fic attempt number one
11. Colin Tompkinson though nothing of the curly haired man who wandered onto his bus trailing a long scarf and a small child with matching curly hair, albeit a vivid red. – Random fluff inspired by Partners in Crime in which the Fourth Doctor meets a six year old runaway Donna.
12. One of the large problems with the twentieth century Jack found was the speed at which computers worked. – A Year That Never Was fic in which the narrative work like a cross section of an onion.
13. “My car or yours?” Barbara asked as they walked into the school car park. – That Barbara meets Nine fic I keep on nearly finishing but never quite.
14. Three people rushed after the vial in desperation as it fell towards the ground, their arms outstretched. These three were the last hope of billions.
None were in time. – Dark Heroes AU fic in which the Shanti virus kills everything.
15. Food cans rolled down the isle, some dented, others broken open spilling beans and spinach over the chequered floor. - Another Heroes fic featuring at teenage Noah Bennet meeting Arthur Petrelli
16. “This is for you,” Ginny said, dropping an old scrunched up piece of paper into Teddy’s hands, and watching him with curious eyes.
“What is it?” Ted asked as he scrambled to open the paper. On it was scribbled in purple ink an address. – Post DH fic
17. People had their groups, their cliques, those with whom they socialised with to the exclusion of all others. It was universal, Franklin understood, and certainly in place on the Hogwarts Express. – My notes on the document state: "The tale of Franklin Crouch: Muggleborn, Texan and Draco Malfoy’s best ever friend." I think it was for a badfic challenge.
18. The fable of the werewolf and his bride would illicit much controversy for many years. It was all sparked off course by an unfinished note found in the writings of Jonathan Strange; “The moral of the story is quite a simple one really…” Leading much debate at to what this simple moral was. If anything, the search for the answer was far from simple. – From an attempt to write a Jonathan Strange/Harry Potter crossover.
19. On a cold Wednesday night in February, two things fell out of the sky. – From The Unbearable Job of Following a Tough Act, that AU in which Donna takes over from the Doctor.
20. "This is," Donna announced, with wild childish excitement, "the greatest thing I have ever done." – Post JE epic fix-it fic, or rather, make-everything-worse fic.
21. She first saw her out of the corner of her eye.
With blonde hair tied in a bun, and wearing clothes that looked too old fashioned for someone so young, she was a beauty looked out of place. Classic, almost anachronistic in the same grey London streets Diana walked down every day.
“Donna!” she cried. “Donna! Donna Noble!” – Abandoned Ten/Donna fic.
22. The two Marines threw her into the Commodore’s office, and she landed hard on her knees. They walked out and she heard them lock the door behind her, as she scrambled to her feet.
“The immortal Captain Sparrow, I presume.” He was standing behind his old desk, back turned, seeming to be staring out to the ocean but in reality just the wall.
“Piracy, murder, arson…the list goes on, all of which I can understand, but what I cannot,” he continued, still with his back turned, not looking at his prisoner, “is why you are capitalising on a dead pirate’s name. I though better of you, Elizabeth.” – From an abandoned PotC AU.
23. Juliet was fifteen when she killed herself to be with her Romeo. Although the doomed teens are a particularly extreme example, there was certainly a trend. Harry first met Sally in their early twenties. Renee Zellweger was 32 when she landed her Mr. Darcy. Jennifer Ehle 26 and Keira Knightly 20. It seemed there was an age at which a woman lost her chance of romance. Meg Ryan was admittedly thirty-seven the last time she met Tom Hanks, but since they’d already lived to happy ever after twice before, it didn’t really count.
Donna Noble was thirty-seven, she was single with no man in sight and she was drunk, and trying to hide that latter fact from her mother. – Abandoned fic chronicling the relationship of Donna and Lance. Possibly the most cynical thing I have ever written.
24. "If you were George Clooney and some average looking middle aged red-haired woman from London said 'come with me and I'll show you all of time and space' would you say yes or no?" Donna asked
Martha let out laugh before replying, "You're not middle-aged."
"Near enough."
"I'm pretty sure he'd say yes if he believed you."
"How about Colin Firth?"
"Isn't the question you're really trying to ask is if you invited him to travel with you would George Clooney then sleep with you?"
"Or, it might be if George Clooney travelled with me, would I wind up in a gorgeous gown hanging off his arms at the Oscars telling journalist about how I met my lover when I was saving him from a race of ER-obsessed hair eating aliens from the planet Zom?"
"I think you might have put just a little too much thought into that scenario."
"Possibly. You're not busy right now, are you? I'm not interrupting some highly important top secret planetary defence thing?"
"Actually, I was just contemplating how bored I was. And it's Sunday. You're obviously feeling the same way if you're calling me out of the blue."
"I'm having my lunch. We're on the planet Justunie."
"So how is it?"
"Looks like bread, tastes like fish."
"No I meant things with him and her?"
"Like living in an old musical but without the singing." – An AU in which Ten, Rose and Donna travel around together.
25. “What’s gotten into you?” Vivian Rook asked Sarah, who was staring aimlessly at her glass of pinot.
“What?” Sarah asked, quickly coming back.
“What’s gotten into you?” Vivian repeated. “You’re not still wound up about that school explosion, are you? That’s not like you.”
“No,” Sarah replied
“I really don’t know how you do it. You seem to attract danger even in the most mundane of assignments. Besides, we’ve been sitting here for fifteen minutes and you haven’t yet asked me why I dragged you out to lunch and have thrust alcohol upon you – don’t tell me I’m getting predictable.”
“No, I just assumed you would explain,” Sarah said, taking a drink from her glass.
“We are celebrating your divorce,” Vivian announced.
With that Sarah nearly choked.
“What?” she asked once she recovered from a fit of coughing.
“Oh, surely you’ve heard my policy on life. Every woman has in her three marriages and two divorces. Any more than that and you’re Liz Taylor.”
“You and Eric, then?”
Vivian nodded her head. “And since I’m fresh out of divorces I thought I could use one of yours, since your not doing anything with them.” - From the original idea for my [Bad username or site: tardis_bigbang fic @ livejournal.com]
Conclusion: Far too much of what I write is never posted.
1. While Donna Noble knew that the series of events that had led to her being manhandled by security guards and bundled into a van had begun the day she had been given a job at HC Clements. She also knew that the major event in all of this was when she had met the Doctor, since it was always the Doctor that they were interested in. – From Upon the Upland Road
2. “Obviously they put something in the wine, you know, so that we…” - From Five Ways to Avoid Martian Sex
3. The most interesting thing about a Time Lord, Donna had decided, was his pockets. – From Pockets
4. Donna had a goldfish. He wasn’t actually sure about from where she had acquired it, but there it floated, in a bowl on a shelf in the TARDIS’ third kitchen. – From Garry
5. “No, Brigadier…Yes…No…Carmeliun Four…Yes…Yes, he’ll be back soon…No, I’m sure he hasn’t left me behind…No...Alright…Goodbye Brigadier.”
“Really, this is beyond childish, Doctor, this is infantile,” Sarah said as she put the phone down. - From Human Interest
6. If Kelsey Harper had been listening a bit more closely when her teacher was telling her class the story of Odysseus, she might have compared walking down Bannerman Road to choosing between the legendary monsters of Charybdis and Scylla. – From Between a Rock and a Hard Place
7. It appears that the truth is emerging about last week’s events at Canary Wharf. The ghosts that so readily became a prominent feature of our lives are quickly being forgotten, just as those cybermen that entered our homes and threatened our families. We shall dismiss what happened that day along with it we shall dismiss those that lost their lives in a battle about which we have no truth. But before we do, someone has to ask: what happened to Rose Tyler? – From What Happened to Rose Tyler?
8. James Norrington. Defiant boy. Stubborn man. It is past your time. – From For Honour a Heart's Demise
9. “Lost my cousin, lost my mentor and then lost my father,” Tonks announced as she placed down a card. – From Meanwhile Somewhere Off the Mortal Coil
10. "So what do you want to know?" – Post Journey's End fic attempt number one
11. Colin Tompkinson though nothing of the curly haired man who wandered onto his bus trailing a long scarf and a small child with matching curly hair, albeit a vivid red. – Random fluff inspired by Partners in Crime in which the Fourth Doctor meets a six year old runaway Donna.
12. One of the large problems with the twentieth century Jack found was the speed at which computers worked. – A Year That Never Was fic in which the narrative work like a cross section of an onion.
13. “My car or yours?” Barbara asked as they walked into the school car park. – That Barbara meets Nine fic I keep on nearly finishing but never quite.
14. Three people rushed after the vial in desperation as it fell towards the ground, their arms outstretched. These three were the last hope of billions.
None were in time. – Dark Heroes AU fic in which the Shanti virus kills everything.
15. Food cans rolled down the isle, some dented, others broken open spilling beans and spinach over the chequered floor. - Another Heroes fic featuring at teenage Noah Bennet meeting Arthur Petrelli
16. “This is for you,” Ginny said, dropping an old scrunched up piece of paper into Teddy’s hands, and watching him with curious eyes.
“What is it?” Ted asked as he scrambled to open the paper. On it was scribbled in purple ink an address. – Post DH fic
17. People had their groups, their cliques, those with whom they socialised with to the exclusion of all others. It was universal, Franklin understood, and certainly in place on the Hogwarts Express. – My notes on the document state: "The tale of Franklin Crouch: Muggleborn, Texan and Draco Malfoy’s best ever friend." I think it was for a badfic challenge.
18. The fable of the werewolf and his bride would illicit much controversy for many years. It was all sparked off course by an unfinished note found in the writings of Jonathan Strange; “The moral of the story is quite a simple one really…” Leading much debate at to what this simple moral was. If anything, the search for the answer was far from simple. – From an attempt to write a Jonathan Strange/Harry Potter crossover.
19. On a cold Wednesday night in February, two things fell out of the sky. – From The Unbearable Job of Following a Tough Act, that AU in which Donna takes over from the Doctor.
20. "This is," Donna announced, with wild childish excitement, "the greatest thing I have ever done." – Post JE epic fix-it fic, or rather, make-everything-worse fic.
21. She first saw her out of the corner of her eye.
With blonde hair tied in a bun, and wearing clothes that looked too old fashioned for someone so young, she was a beauty looked out of place. Classic, almost anachronistic in the same grey London streets Diana walked down every day.
“Donna!” she cried. “Donna! Donna Noble!” – Abandoned Ten/Donna fic.
22. The two Marines threw her into the Commodore’s office, and she landed hard on her knees. They walked out and she heard them lock the door behind her, as she scrambled to her feet.
“The immortal Captain Sparrow, I presume.” He was standing behind his old desk, back turned, seeming to be staring out to the ocean but in reality just the wall.
“Piracy, murder, arson…the list goes on, all of which I can understand, but what I cannot,” he continued, still with his back turned, not looking at his prisoner, “is why you are capitalising on a dead pirate’s name. I though better of you, Elizabeth.” – From an abandoned PotC AU.
23. Juliet was fifteen when she killed herself to be with her Romeo. Although the doomed teens are a particularly extreme example, there was certainly a trend. Harry first met Sally in their early twenties. Renee Zellweger was 32 when she landed her Mr. Darcy. Jennifer Ehle 26 and Keira Knightly 20. It seemed there was an age at which a woman lost her chance of romance. Meg Ryan was admittedly thirty-seven the last time she met Tom Hanks, but since they’d already lived to happy ever after twice before, it didn’t really count.
Donna Noble was thirty-seven, she was single with no man in sight and she was drunk, and trying to hide that latter fact from her mother. – Abandoned fic chronicling the relationship of Donna and Lance. Possibly the most cynical thing I have ever written.
24. "If you were George Clooney and some average looking middle aged red-haired woman from London said 'come with me and I'll show you all of time and space' would you say yes or no?" Donna asked
Martha let out laugh before replying, "You're not middle-aged."
"Near enough."
"I'm pretty sure he'd say yes if he believed you."
"How about Colin Firth?"
"Isn't the question you're really trying to ask is if you invited him to travel with you would George Clooney then sleep with you?"
"Or, it might be if George Clooney travelled with me, would I wind up in a gorgeous gown hanging off his arms at the Oscars telling journalist about how I met my lover when I was saving him from a race of ER-obsessed hair eating aliens from the planet Zom?"
"I think you might have put just a little too much thought into that scenario."
"Possibly. You're not busy right now, are you? I'm not interrupting some highly important top secret planetary defence thing?"
"Actually, I was just contemplating how bored I was. And it's Sunday. You're obviously feeling the same way if you're calling me out of the blue."
"I'm having my lunch. We're on the planet Justunie."
"So how is it?"
"Looks like bread, tastes like fish."
"No I meant things with him and her?"
"Like living in an old musical but without the singing." – An AU in which Ten, Rose and Donna travel around together.
25. “What’s gotten into you?” Vivian Rook asked Sarah, who was staring aimlessly at her glass of pinot.
“What?” Sarah asked, quickly coming back.
“What’s gotten into you?” Vivian repeated. “You’re not still wound up about that school explosion, are you? That’s not like you.”
“No,” Sarah replied
“I really don’t know how you do it. You seem to attract danger even in the most mundane of assignments. Besides, we’ve been sitting here for fifteen minutes and you haven’t yet asked me why I dragged you out to lunch and have thrust alcohol upon you – don’t tell me I’m getting predictable.”
“No, I just assumed you would explain,” Sarah said, taking a drink from her glass.
“We are celebrating your divorce,” Vivian announced.
With that Sarah nearly choked.
“What?” she asked once she recovered from a fit of coughing.
“Oh, surely you’ve heard my policy on life. Every woman has in her three marriages and two divorces. Any more than that and you’re Liz Taylor.”
“You and Eric, then?”
Vivian nodded her head. “And since I’m fresh out of divorces I thought I could use one of yours, since your not doing anything with them.” - From the original idea for my [Bad username or site: tardis_bigbang fic @ livejournal.com]
Conclusion: Far too much of what I write is never posted.
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Date: 2008-07-17 01:38 am (UTC)Indeed. These are all great starts but I'd especially like to see the cynical Donna and Lance one; that's definitely a story I'd like to hear, but then I think there should be way more Ten/Donna fic in the world so those ideas are intriguing to me also. I also love the phone conversation with Martha and Donna; excellent girlie friends interaction. It could probably stand as a drabble on it's own.
In conclusion, I'd be happy to read any expansion you had on any of these beginnings.
I'm being pushy, aren't I? I'll stop now.
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Date: 2008-07-18 08:55 am (UTC)And I wouldn't call that pushy, more encouragement. Writing is so very lonely. I have no idea if what I'm doing is good, or if there's an audience and have so few people to talk to about it. I'm not sure if it does any good, but I like having a shove.
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Date: 2008-07-26 01:23 pm (UTC)From the pieces you've posted above I'd say that what you're doing is a little bit more than good. There's definitely an audience and I'm happy to shove you if you think that it'll help.