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First Line Challenge

I stole this off someone else’s blog because cool 🙂

RULES: List the first lines of the last ten stories you published. Look to see if there are any patterns that you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any! Then tag some friends.

So in reverse order…

1) Ghost of a Memory – “It’s the only way.” (Garcy, Timeless)

2) Time – ‘I have no doubt that you will find him’ (Jemma, Agents of Shield)

3) The Wedding Job – Lacey smiled softly at Gold as he guided her down the aisle. (Rumbelle, Once)

4) I Believe My Heart – Henry had thought he was immune to pain. (GlassBeliever, Once)

5) Miracles Happen – Rumplestiltskin took a deep breath as he climbed out of the drivers seat of the rental car. (Rumbelle, Once)

6) True Love Ways – ‘What makes it even better, today our story starts anew…’ (Rumbelle, Once)

7) Bright Lights – It was a guilty pleasure, and not anything she would ever admit to any of her colleagues, but Belle was quite fond of spy movies. (Rumbelle, Once)

8) Dream Come True – Belle paused and took a lungful of crisp mountain air. (Rumbelle, Once)

9) Costume Party – Work, money, the pursuit of power, had utterly consumed him. (Rumbelle, Once)

10) To Be Loved – In real life there was no such thing as a happy ending. (Rumbelle, Once, NSFW)

Well it seems if I don’t start with a quote, then I start with the name of the character.

Tagging: @mariequitecontrarie, @bookwormchocaholic and @ifishouldvanish

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URL Playlist

@ifishouldvanish tagged me for this and wow what a super cool thing! Anyway, the thing was to pick a song for each letter of the URL which makes a playlist. There wasn’t any guideance on how to pick the songs so I did a combination of most played and alphabetically sorting my collection, scrolling and picking the one that jumped out 🙂

G – Get ‘Em Up by Nickelback

A – All the Right Moves by One Republic

L – Light by Sleeping at Last

A – After All by Saving Abel

C – Chasing Tornadoes by Plan Three

T – This is War by 30 Seconds to Mars

I – Into the Nothing by Breaking Benjamin

C – Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

P – Payphone by Maroon 5

I – I Still Burn by Tobias Regner

R – Riptide by Sick Puppies

A – Ain’t No Sunshine by Bill Withers

T – The End is Where We Begin by Thousand Foot Krutch

E – Easier to Run by Linkin Park

S – Same Mistake by James Blunt

Tagging @sarashouldbestudying, @little-inkstone, @bookwormchocaholic, @mariequitecontrarie and @rumple-belle but feel free to ignore if you don’t feel like it. I just thought it looked fun 🙂

#also spelling out my url made me think how much I love it again it was a good choice

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Honestly I don’t think I’m cut out for this people thing. There are too many and they are so loud.

And there are still 3 more days this week

#headphones are worlds best invention I swear

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I swear my uni has a welcome week building fail every year. Although I suppose two years running isn’t really a pattern *rolls eyes at self*

Last year there was a day of Humanities panels and there was a wasps nest in the room. Rather than find a different room, or reschedule, or even cancel, they just went on anyway. People got stung and everything.

Today I went for an intro lecture and the heating was broken, jammed full on and it was like a sauna in there (quite literally as for sustainability all the walls are wood panelled) and again rather than do anything about it, it was just ignored and a girl fainted.

I know the British stereotype is stiff upper lip, carry on no matter what, so perhaps it’s not very British of me to think they should have done something like move rooms, reschedule or cancel. I do think though that carrying on regardless is crazy and I don’t really understand why they do it. None of the scheduled events were that important.

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I’m so insanely stupidly nervous.

Semester starts tomorrow, not classes, it’s an introduction week with admin type stuff. It’s the first day of the course but not my first day at this uni. It’ll be a lot of my classmates first day but I did a foundation year here so I know exactly where I’m going and I’m prepared. I’ve done next weeks reading already, my bag is packed, my clothes are laid out, I’ve triple checked everything I can think of – and I’m still scared! Oh and it’s only 4pm /headdesk

I want it to be tomorrow and yet I really don’t at the same time.

Just ugh!

#anxiety is in overdrive as per usual

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Ok so total fail on the Fanfic Friday thing. I had a really bad mental health week and just yeah, nothing happened. So reset the clock and try again next week! Tomorrow is another day and all that jazz.

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Soooo that Fanfic Friday thing … because I decided…

What’s the fanfic Friday thing?

I figured I needed a deadline.

Back when I first started posting fanfic, my first WIP The War Within, I posted pretty much without fail every Tuesday. I remember making myself sit and write because I couldn’t miss posting day. I want to recapture that and therefore decided on Fanfic Friday, the day where I post something – anything (for the moment at least).

Like I said I only decided to do it on Wednesday so I’m trying to cut myself a break (rather than decide I’ve failed already) and declare that next week is Week One, giving myself a little more time.

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Soooo that Fanfic Friday thing … because I decided to do that on Wednesday this week doesn’t count right? *cringes*

#one day maybe I’ll master this doing things thing#today is kinda that day as I have hoovered the whole house but that doesn’t help in the writing completion stakes /sigh

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I finally got my hands on Avengers: Infinity War today – finally!! *mutters* stupid month long extra wait*

BUT

I feel kinda blah sucky (probably because I procrastinated all day *sigh*) and so I’m going to watch Leverage instead, or maybe The Librarians, I love that show.