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I tell you something sad-funny about that first lines meme?
My first lines suck. I went to look at the stuff I’ve written and no lie, the first lines of every single one are so mundane there’s nothing worth sharing.
OK I lied, the one with Peggy and Bucky literally opens with “the sharp crack of rifle fire”, but like. I don’t know. I don’t do grabby first lines. I set a scene and try to suck you in.
I should probably take stock and analyze my mechanicals one of these days. Wednesday morning I wrote a scene I’d started and left off months before, which has grown to the point that it could pretty much have been a stand-alone story and conveyed as much as all of the other Bucky/Nat parts of Full of Grace put together, much more succinctly.
If I ever go back to original fic, I gotta be prepared to prune like that. One thing fanfic teaches you is that nobody really minds 10k words of fluff for 2k words of payoff. And I like writing that way. But I’d probably have more commercial success if I could just prune the fluff to a line, and tell the story efficiently.
Not that I’d have commercial success, mind. But in a wild AU where everything else aligned…
I tell you something sad-funny about that first lines meme?
My first lines suck. I went to look at the stuff I’ve written and no lie, the first lines of every single one are so mundane there’s nothing worth sharing.
OK I lied, the one with Peggy and Bucky literally opens with “the sharp crack of rifle fire”, but like. I don’t know. I don’t do grabby first lines. I set a scene and try to suck you in.
I should probably take stock and analyze my mechanicals one of these days. Wednesday morning I wrote a scene I’d started and left off months before, which has grown to the point that it could pretty much have been a stand-alone story and conveyed as much as all of the other Bucky/Nat parts of Full of Grace put together, much more succinctly.
If I ever go back to original fic, I gotta be prepared to prune like that. One thing fanfic teaches you is that nobody really minds 10k words of fluff for 2k words of payoff. And I like writing that way. But I’d probably have more commercial success if I could just prune the fluff to a line, and tell the story efficiently.
Not that I’d have commercial success, mind. But in a wild AU where everything else aligned…
