Writerly meme

Well, I posted this friends-locked, and got absolutely no response whatsoever, so I'm reposting it now world-readable in the hope of getting some feedback that might give me motivation. Come on guys, motivate me to write!

autopope wrote:

This appears to be a meme on the wander - write down the first sentence or paragraph of every work of fiction you've currently got sitting in a file waiting for you to finish it:

I don't normally do LJ memes, but this strikes me as something I could potentially get something out of... at the very least alerting me to how cringeworthy some of my openings (fortunately rather more the older ones) are (and how sameish compared to autopope's examples). And maybe it'll give me fresh inspiration on one of these.

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