✒️ Post your written line you really like

Posted 6 years, 9 months ago (Edited 6 years, 9 months ago) by Caine

I have no idea how fast this thread will die considering majority of the people here are artists rather than writers, but it probably won't hurt trying!

The idea of this game are very simple: Post a line (or a few) from your writing project, whether it's a novel, short story or OC bio / background detailing! 
It can be something you're really proud of or something you simply like, or just want to share with other people! Feel free to also tell others a bit about the context if you feel like it

Rules & guidelines:

  • Keep them PG13 max! Let's keep this game something everyone can participate to and read without fear! 
  • Sensitive content should be either blacked out like this THIS or under spoiler. Again, make sure it's PG13 max!
  • No fanfiction lines unless they contain an original character of yours in the line(s) you post!
  • Don't double post. Double posting is allowed! Otherwise this thread will die lmao 
  • You're allowed to post longer chunks of text too, but keep it moderate and put it under spoiler tag so people don't need to scroll through all of it to reach the next post!
  • Feel free to post as IC if your story line is related to a character you have!
Also, here is a general thread for writers if you want to hang out with others or talk about your projects! And if you have anything to ask, feel free to ping or dm me! 
v4mpirism

a little excerpt from a wip of mine (if you'd like to read it, it's here)

On days like these, Brandon would usually stay inside. He didn’t find any fun in being outside in the cold, even if it was like that most of the year. The warmth would comfort him and his sorrows. He’d light a candle and read by the window, as it snowed, or when it rained in the summer. He spent most of his free time in solitude.

Damien, on the other hand, loved being outside in the cold. Him and his siblings often used to play in the snow together, especially when he was younger. The memory always had a special place in his heart, but since the three of them had to study more for their schoolwork, they had a lot less spare time. It never seemed like he would mind, though. If he did, he’d never show it.

AllseeingDaydream

"You don't understand, do you. I don't fight to disable, to disarm, to capture. I fight to kill."

- WM's fighting style, for all that its centered around stamina, inevitably comes to the conclusion of kill or be killed. They don't know how to fight, fight with their whole power and wit, without the aim of eventually killing the other combatant. They never learned to.

[I wrote this recently after a musing on how WM fights...]

VictoryDrawsStuff

An excerpt from a writing piece I did for my amazing writer friend Auralina33 as writing practice! Featuring her OC Mari ! I AM SO PROUD OF THIS-

"Mari does not know what feeling he is feeling, he does not know the name of this feeling. It felt terrible, it felt more painful than his injured arm. The feeling of being drowned into an abyss of negativity filled with “what ifs” . He felt this before, but could never figure out the question of “what is this feeling?” that he felt."

justsomehumanperson

I like this line from Cursed, Divine, and Upside Down quite a bit:


"Wait, you're telling me boiling goat's milk is budget alternative for Phoenix tears?"

"Provided the goat is young, happy, and healthy."

"Strange how that works."

"You learn a new thing every day," I deadpanned, as I measured the Phoenix tears.

MentalVoid

I recently wrote a one-shot very sad ending for one of my OCs and I liked these two sections from it!

She collapsed to the ground, her heart screaming out in agony. She tried to keep her magic in check, tried desperately to keep it from spilling out, but the pain was too great. Ice flooded from her hands into the ground, and frost immediately blanketed the area around her. And then, the pain was gone – replaced with a gnawing, empty void. The Widow had – in her own twisted way – helped, by shutting off Evelina’s emotions for good.

and the ending line

Decades after his passing, and well past the point that Evelina should have died as well, rumors still floated around Ottenfeld of an ice witch slaying anyone who threatened her star-crossed lover…or his family.

aurae stxrfallen

from answering questions related to her character. took place in the disc server for the campaign shes in , so yeah

(also *casually revives thread* aheehee)

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FreyaDearest

“You want to kiss me, then?”  It might not be the best way to clarify, but Lavrenti wants to make sure he heard him right.  Adrien spins back around to look at him.

“Seriously?  That’s what you retained from all that?”  He sounds almost bewildered, and the mechanic can’t help but laugh again.

“That, and apparently how I’m preferable to a Denny’s.  The kissing thing seemed way more flattering.”  It’s all teasing, and Lavrenti laughs even harder when the other dramatically rolls his eyes.

“It was a nice Denny’s, keep that in mind,” the ghost defends with a playful huff.

“The staff had weekly blunt rotations in the backroom.”

Gossamer Skyvault 🌃 IndigoBookwyrm

A summary of Gosling: "maintains an aura of dignity and grace while lacking any degree of physical gracefulness itself."

little phoebe sometimes vanillaflavouroddish

 I'm writing an oc story called outcasts and my whole acc revolves around it! I hope to make it a novel one day

"Something calls to Phoebe in the deep recesses of her mind.
A garbled, wholly grinding sound on the ears;
one that wouldn't make much coherence to anybody but her.

She was used to the sound, after all.

This, of course, would be the other part to
Phoebe's dual nature,
the one that causes the other such misery;
her Amnesia.

Her dreams would be vivid.
Florid with imagery of her arguing with her other side for dominance of her body.
Upon waking, she could never tell if it were real or not,
but whenever she slept deeply it crept back up on her.

Amnesia was right at home."



GeorgieTheArtist

Context - Zayden was kidnapped by a beast for food however he woke up earlier so the beasts scattered into the woods watching him from the tree's 


"Where am I?! Show yourself demon!" a pause of silence as wind blew over Zayden's hair messing it up. "Or what?" the shadows spoke. "OR I WILL EAT YOUR TOES" he said with no hesitation moving in the direction of the voice with his sword.

aurae stxrfallen

i return. wau.

context - the start of an rp scene after a dnd session; love just got heavily injured during a fight with a werewolf and aurae saved him and now she's worried about him despite her insisting they are "Just" rivals

the walk back to psychosis is spent glaring daggers at love.

she's unusually quiet. she hovers just a few paces behind him, never taking her eyes off the back of his head. there's something in the space between them, bubbling up and boiling over, threatening to explode. starlight rendered furious, coalescing and culminating into a supernova.

she saw what happened to him. the image of teeth and claws tearing into purple skin never leaves her mind.

he almost died.

scratched up and bitten, patches of skin tearing off, covered in his own lilac blood and still having the gall to wink at her and take everything she says as a challenge. he would have stayed in danger if she didn't teleport him out, judging by how he jumped right back in. when she moved him out of harm's way, she had almost wanted to wrap her hands around his stupid, pretty neck and finish him off herself.

maybe she'll do it now.

they reach the city walls again. she waits until everyone else leaves to do their own thing, or at least until she's alone with love, then finally speaks. it's quiet, despite the amount of time aurae spent with roiling emotions beneath. anger, mostly. a healthy dose of worry. a dash of hatred. the tiniest hint of affection. the silence of her voice doesn't come close to masking her feelings.

"you're a fucking idiot."