dragonlady7

I saw this in

qowf's journal a while back and have been mulling it over.

A meme

If you happen to be working on some creative writing project, fanfiction or NaNoWriMo or what have you, post exactly one sentence from each of your current work(s) in progress in your journal. It should probably be your favourite or most intriguing sentence so far, but what you choose is entirely your discretion. Mention the title (and genre) if you like, but don't mention anything else. This is merely to whet the general appetite for your forthcoming work(s).

I have trouble being serious about these things, though. :) This would be much, much better if you were allowed to post, say, 100 words, or three short sentences, or something to that effect. Some of the best parts of my stories are the rapid-fire exchanges of dialogue.

Uh, obviously I need help with my titles.

Title: So far, "NaNoWriMo 2004", but I'll come up with something better.
Genre: Historical, possibly romantic, fiction. Set in Viking-Era Britain ca. 920 AD.
Completion: 25,000 words by later today, I hope
Available to read? Yes:

treigylgweith, friend that journal and I'll add you back and then you can read it.
Sentence:

"Mmm," Njall said dubiously, very low, his voice rumbling in his chest, "Saxons."

Title: It has simply been known as "Novel-In-Progress" since I started it in January.
Genre: Fantasy, pseudo-historical.
Completion: About 500,000 words, but it needs a rewrite.
Available to read: Not very much, but an excerpt is now posted on bridget.kelly.name.
Sentence:

"Why are you here?" she asked finally, squeezing past him and coming in to kneel beside [the dog] Skellig, who slobbered effusively on her face in a greeting rather more similar to that which Kyweir wanted to perform than it was entirely comfortable to contemplate.

(The runner-up sentence for this, from the same conversation as above, was so, so, so very tempting that I feel I have to cheat and post it as well, even though it doesn't capture the essence of the story at all:
"Not to be crude, but you'd never fucked me like that before," she said with a delicate shiver.)

Title: So far, "Puritans", but I plan on something a little more descriptive.
Genre: Historical fiction. Set in 1640s New England and England, featuring my real-life ancestors.
Completion: Ughh, has to be totally rewritten, but was last year's NaNo and is over 75,000 words.
Available to read: Not yet, but at least part will be posted on bridget.kelly.name when that website is more complete.
Sentence:

"I can't imagine a man able to make my level-headed daughter bite him simply by telling her he was leaving," he said.

Title: For ten years it has simply been known as The Novel. For two years before that, it was simply known as The Story.
Genre: Fantasy.
Completion: Ehh... I started it in 1991. I was 11. I didn't know anything about structure. It's huge, but it ain't nothin' like done.
Available to read: Uhm, not yet, but see website above.
Sentence:

Collien's sword clanked to the ground as his body rolled away from Tom's, and suddenly the horrible glint of metal was visible among the blood at his chest.

Title: It began life as a short story called simply "Layla" for a creative writing class. It's also called NaNoWriMo2002.
Genre: Science Fiction (of the space-cowboy type)
Completion: 75k words, needs rewrites
Available to read: Will probably post much of it on above website.
Sentence: