Haru-fic up at Yuletide, and first twenty lines meme
So, so tired, and yet more middle-of-the-night bug-chasing anticipated. On the plus side, having to be on standby online all damned day resulted in some catching up via e-mail (which in turn resulted in some rearranging of my language-study plans -- it turns out I'll be attending a wedding in Israel this fall, so Hebrew just leapfrogged over Mandarin. I'm loving the library's Pimsleur CD series, by the way...) and the writing of a New Year's Resolution fic:
Title: Deserving
Fandom: Haru wo Daiteita
Characters: Yoshizumi, Iwaki, and Katou
Rating: PG
Summary: "What the hell am I in the middle of now?" Yoshizumi doesn't know what to think when he lands a starring role opposite Katou's Iwaki.
Wordcount: 1054
Written for: glass-icarus, who had specified that "possessiveness is a giant thing for me; thus, obviously, when I mentioned Yoshizumi, I didn't mean a threesome. :P Katou and Iwaki being sweet are fabulous, Yoshizumi calling them out on it is also fabulous, Yoshizumi poking fun at them or talking to them about their relationship (in passing or not), any combination of the three of them bonding over acting..."
Link: http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/arc
(I'll repost in this journal in a couple days or so - the file's on another machine)
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The first lines of my last twenty fics -- which we'll here call anything longer than, say, 200 words. (Writing exactly to 100 or 200 tends to compress my style/expository choices, which undermines the exercise of seeing if there are any patterns or prevailing inclinations...)
1. Yoshizumi Naotaka frowned at the list his manager had just handed to him.
2. Roger almost didn't recognize himself in his dream, what with its funhouse-mirror-style changes to his body.
3. Roger fully intends to learn Spanish someday, but it's just not something his brain can handle right now -- not while he's trying to master new ways of staying ahead of the rest of the pack.
4. As he slings his duffel bag into the cabin assigned to him, Andy privately wonders if he's going to end up feeling like a third wheel all week, even though it's just him and Rafa on the boat.
5. Roger Federer isn't shy about being the top detective in his precinct.
6. Mise en place: it means "everything in its place," and it's the part of putting together a dinner that Roger most enjoys: he likes peeling, pruning, shaving, carving, and chopping the vegetables for a soup, the fruits for a fondue, the cheeses for a dessert tray.
7. "Ack!"
8. Lime is not a venue that Sawa Nagisa would spend any time in, if the choice were wholly left to him.
9. After the aborted test drive, both Dee and Ryo programmed caller-specific ringtones into their phones.
10. Diana hasn't forgotten how Ryo said he'd be "rooting for her" in her quest to command Berkeley's attention, but she's still thrown for a loop when she connects the dots and realizes it must have been Ryo who tipped Berkeley off about her impending engagement to someone else.
11. One of the things Shimizu enjoys the most about being the manager of a movie star is getting to visit foreign countries.
12. As his manager drove him to Iwaki and Katou's house, Yoshizumi mused over the invitation he had received from the couple.
13. Snape wasn't sure which was making his headache worse -- the infernal racket from the residents of the flat below his, or the insipid conclusions some imbecile had managed to con the editors of Twenty-first Century Potions into publishing.
14. Ryo likes to think of himself as a reasonable guy, and he's rather quick to take umbrage whenever Dee or any of his other colleagues suggest otherwise.
15. It's been over ten years since the fall of Voldemort, and Draco Malfoy has become somewhat used to receiving unfriendly correspondence on a regular basis.
16. As he walked down the hallway of NY East's third floor, Bikky thought to himself, The problem with hospitals is that they're too friggin' noisy.
17. Most weeks, Will Stanton seldom wandered south of the Thames.
18. "Fuck," Dee growled.
19. One of Bikky's most treasured possessions is a jacket that's never fit him properly.
20. When Kai returned to his hotel room, he found his partner watching an old documentary featuring Stephen Hawking.
Patterns? Um... That I tend to write longer sentences than most of you is probably not news (*waves at![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
westernredcedar, who wrangled with this firsthand when she recorded "The Hounding of the Baskervilles"*). That I often start out stories with characters in media thinkety is likewise Not A Revelation. Beyond that... aaah. At the moment I wouldn't be able to recognize a Fibonacci sequence if it smacked me with a slide rule. I think it's time to go check on my cauldron of tomato stew and then either kick a sonnet closer to shape or succumb to another two-hour catnap.
groggyTitle: Deserving
Fandom: Haru wo Daiteita
Characters: Yoshizumi, Iwaki, and Katou
Rating: PG
Summary: "What the hell am I in the middle of now?" Yoshizumi doesn't know what to think when he lands a starring role opposite Katou's Iwaki.
Wordcount: 1054
Written for: glass-icarus, who had specified that "possessiveness is a giant thing for me; thus, obviously, when I mentioned Yoshizumi, I didn't mean a threesome. :P Katou and Iwaki being sweet are fabulous, Yoshizumi calling them out on it is also fabulous, Yoshizumi poking fun at them or talking to them about their relationship (in passing or not), any combination of the three of them bonding over acting..."
Link: http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/arc
(I'll repost in this journal in a couple days or so - the file's on another machine)
The first lines of my last twenty fics -- which we'll here call anything longer than, say, 200 words. (Writing exactly to 100 or 200 tends to compress my style/expository choices, which undermines the exercise of seeing if there are any patterns or prevailing inclinations...)
1. Yoshizumi Naotaka frowned at the list his manager had just handed to him.
2. Roger almost didn't recognize himself in his dream, what with its funhouse-mirror-style changes to his body.
3. Roger fully intends to learn Spanish someday, but it's just not something his brain can handle right now -- not while he's trying to master new ways of staying ahead of the rest of the pack.
4. As he slings his duffel bag into the cabin assigned to him, Andy privately wonders if he's going to end up feeling like a third wheel all week, even though it's just him and Rafa on the boat.
5. Roger Federer isn't shy about being the top detective in his precinct.
6. Mise en place: it means "everything in its place," and it's the part of putting together a dinner that Roger most enjoys: he likes peeling, pruning, shaving, carving, and chopping the vegetables for a soup, the fruits for a fondue, the cheeses for a dessert tray.
7. "Ack!"
8. Lime is not a venue that Sawa Nagisa would spend any time in, if the choice were wholly left to him.
9. After the aborted test drive, both Dee and Ryo programmed caller-specific ringtones into their phones.
10. Diana hasn't forgotten how Ryo said he'd be "rooting for her" in her quest to command Berkeley's attention, but she's still thrown for a loop when she connects the dots and realizes it must have been Ryo who tipped Berkeley off about her impending engagement to someone else.
11. One of the things Shimizu enjoys the most about being the manager of a movie star is getting to visit foreign countries.
12. As his manager drove him to Iwaki and Katou's house, Yoshizumi mused over the invitation he had received from the couple.
13. Snape wasn't sure which was making his headache worse -- the infernal racket from the residents of the flat below his, or the insipid conclusions some imbecile had managed to con the editors of Twenty-first Century Potions into publishing.
14. Ryo likes to think of himself as a reasonable guy, and he's rather quick to take umbrage whenever Dee or any of his other colleagues suggest otherwise.
15. It's been over ten years since the fall of Voldemort, and Draco Malfoy has become somewhat used to receiving unfriendly correspondence on a regular basis.
16. As he walked down the hallway of NY East's third floor, Bikky thought to himself, The problem with hospitals is that they're too friggin' noisy.
17. Most weeks, Will Stanton seldom wandered south of the Thames.
18. "Fuck," Dee growled.
19. One of Bikky's most treasured possessions is a jacket that's never fit him properly.
20. When Kai returned to his hotel room, he found his partner watching an old documentary featuring Stephen Hawking.
Patterns? Um... That I tend to write longer sentences than most of you is probably not news (*waves at
westernredcedar, who wrangled with this firsthand when she recorded "The Hounding of the Baskervilles"*). That I often start out stories with characters in media thinkety is likewise Not A Revelation. Beyond that... aaah. At the moment I wouldn't be able to recognize a Fibonacci sequence if it smacked me with a slide rule. I think it's time to go check on my cauldron of tomato stew and then either kick a sonnet closer to shape or succumb to another two-hour catnap.
And I absolutely love the idea of Yoshizumi finally getting a starring role! It would be really interesting to see how he deals with it, because I get the feeling that he's not entirely comfortable with the idea of being a "star." Also love Katou's jealousy, and how Yoshi is reassured by that. And of course the usual nausea with his lovey-dovey friends!
Re "first lines" meme: I'm glad that I'm not the only one who writes long sentences! I've been trying to trim them down, but they still turn out pretty long. Also, "Ack!" has to be the best first line ever! ^_^
I fancy you're right - Y would likely be seriously nonplussed at being cast as a lead. Look at how he kept interrogating Iwaki on who was the real lead of Fuyuu...
Also, "Ack!" has to be the best first line ever! ^_^
I really do need to write more squawky Ryo - he's so cute when he's shocked, no matter how justified. *evil grin*
*headbutts*