Tag: 7 sentences meme

Seven sentences meme

Rules: go to page 7 of your WIP, go down to the 7th line, copy the next 7 sentences, then tag 7 people to do the same.

I was tagged by several people at least 2 weeks ago – I don’t even remember who-all tagged me. @iamanartichoke, I think, and @loxxxlay, maybe @foundlingmother or @illwynd…? I don’t want to go that far back in my activity feed. Anyway, I was waiting until I actually had 7 pages of the new chapter of Abyss. I hope I’ll actually be able to post the chapter before too long…

I did not have long to ponder the
odds, because the guards leading me had come to a halt before a cylindrical
chamber, walled in glass with metal floor and ceiling, suspended by metal arms
that gripped its sides.  The one-eyed
man, Director Fury, stood on the walkway beside it, watching me intently.  The guard at the head of one of the columns
flanking me pressed a button beside the door to the glass cylinder and it slid
open.  I briefly considered what would
happen if I did not walk through the door of my own volition; these eight
Midgardians, with all their armor and weaponry and specialized training, could
not physically force me—and from Fury’s piercing gaze, at once calculating and
warning, I gathered that he knew.  Good
thing I was here of my own volition, then.
I stepped into the cell, then turned and watched the door slide closed
again.

Fury’s boots clanged like battle drums on the
metal slats of the suspended walkway as he paced over to a podium topped with
one of Midgard’s ever-present screens.

I think I’m just going to tag back whoever tagged me because it’s been long enough that I’m sure y’all have new stuff now. Who else? @incredifishface, @seidrade, @wouldyouknowmore

7 sentences & last sentence memes

I was tagged by several different people to do these WIP memes: @loxxxlay tagged me to do the 7 sentences one and @illwynd and @seidrade tagged me for the last sentence one. But I’ve been so bad at keeping up with writing recently that I don’t really have anything new. The 7 sentences meme is especially hard because…

The rules are as follows: go to page 7 of your WIP, go to the 7th line, share 7 sentences, and tag 7 more writer-bloggers to continue the challenge.

…but I don’t have 7 pages of any unposted fics (except a really old one that I think I’ve used for this meme before) or new chapters of partially posted fics. The only new chapter for which I’ve written anything is 2 pages of the next chapter of The Abyss Gazes Also – which I swear I have not abandoned, even though I haven’t updated it in over a year now. (So rest assured, person who left a comment on the last chapter saying “Dear author, Wherth [sic] art thou updating this?” Don’t I wish I fucking knew.)

So I’ll just have to make do by going to the seventh line of the last page I’ve written and sharing 7 sentences (or possibly 8… but I wanted to finish the line of dialogue):

Thor jerked his head back at Stark. “Wherever these mortals wish to take you. I will be accompanying them.”

“‘Mortals’? Really?” I heard Stark’s muffled robotic voice mutter.

I snort-laughed; it was a touch vulgar. “As what? Their hired muscle? Are you going to help them beat the Tesseract out of me?”

And then here’s the last sentence I’ve written, which is not consecutive to the foregoing:

When he spun Mjölnir and lifted us into the air, I was facing backwards over his shoulder, the side of my face pressed uncomfortably close to his.

The 7 sentences meme says I’m supposed to tag 7 people and the last sentence meme says I should tag as many people as there are words in the sentence. I’m pretty sure I don’t know 27 fic writers on here, so I’m just going with 7. Sorry if I’m re-tagging some people, but I was tagged long enough ago that maybe some of y’all will have something new to share (unlike me) …: @darklittlestories, @fairy-changeling, @foundlingmother, @incredifishface, @runnerfivestillalive, @satanssyn-n-things, @wouldyouknowmore