I felt like doing one of these (despite lack of material)

[shirenomad]

Not counting some random creative writing assignments throughout the years, my first work of fiction was All In Your Mind. Actually, it was a creative writing assignment too, but it was decent enough to save a copy. Partially because I keep telling myself that one day I'll rewrite it from the ground up with the same premise but much better writing style. I never do. Anyway, it's a sci-fi piece, and it opens with the mood-setting, but not very descriptive:

Space.

Two paragraphs later the scene shifts to a spacecraft interior and I never so much as address anything outside the ship for the rest of the story. Now you know why I want to re-write it.

I was a lot prouder of Homesick, my first fanfic, which described the Nibelheim Incident in FF7. It actually opened with a quote directly from the game (Lucrecia's "I heard that he died five years ago..."), just to help set the theme/mood, but the first line I wrote myself was:

Four beings were approaching the town.

Not that helpful either. As a side note, I've noticed both of these stories open with an "establish the situation" moment from some odd perspective I never return to again. Seems to be a habit with me.

Falling Stars was too short to employ that tactic; the entire fic consisted of only four pieces of correspondence. (It also manages to spoil part of the game with the first sentence, so I had to censor here as a precaution. Click the link if you want the actual line.) The fic's about FF5, mostly because I had just beat it and no one else was writing about it at the time.

"Chancellor, I'll understand if you complain, but I plan to be the one aboard the [SPOILER] when it launches."

Tale of the Tonberry started as a goofy email to GIA's Double Agent column, but afterward I realized I was looking at my first pure comedy piece (not counting the occasional MST, which I'm not going to reference here).

In the beginning the gods gathered for a great celebration, and they did feast and drink for many an eon, and when they awoke from their stupor they discovered a universe had been created in the backyard and none could remember who had done it.

Then there was Meant to Be, which I'm beginning to suspect isn't (much to the annoyance of my brother/proofreader, who really wanted to see this one happen). I started writing this FF7 epic about the Turks almost right after I finished Homesick, but it's been left untouched for over a year. I'd still like to finish it someday, but right now I just have other priorities. Incidentally, I went with my habit of a strange-perspective introduction, this time a flashback:

Elmyra fidgeted as the train approached the station.

I also fell back on the habit (sort of) with Lost, which I guess will be my first musefic when I finish. I can excuse the opening moment this time: few people who will read this have heard of the setting I plan to use, so I had to describe it before leaping in. Actually, I scattered several other descriptive tidbits like this throughout the fic for just that reason.

The nodes of the multiverse can be compared to the stars in a galaxy.

*looks back up at the entire post* Damn, that was wordy. Guess I had to make up for having less fics to talk about.