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It's early Monday morning and I just can't bring myself to start doing work quite yet... the nutri grain hasn't even settled in my stomach!
Snagged from all over. The first twenty line meme - It calls for the first sentences of your last 20 stories and then you look for patterns.
1. "This happens to us with frightening regularity."
2. Dean is sitting on a shaded bench palming his overgrown bag of peanut M&Ms when he finally spots Sam.
3. "What're you doing?"
4. Most kids can look forward to summer.
5. Matt isn't sure just how he sees him.
6. There was a strange little void in between the cushion and the seat back on the passenger’s side of the Impala that was a catchall to all manner of things.
7. “Uh oh.”
8. “Why do you ask questions for others but never yourself?”
9. “One Winchester all alone, calls two Winchesters on the phone."
10. Pepper Potts drummed her perfectly manicured nails on the counter.
11. So, Cameron Mitchell could pretty much pinpoint the exact moment he became a twelve-year-old girl.
12. "What are you doing?"
13. Dean watched Sam’s back, a rigid angry line, disappearing into the bathroom.
14. Sam’s first coherent thought was nguhhhh.
15. "You're kidding, right?"
16. One summer Sam buys this ridiculously huge convertible because he's sick of being driven everywhere.
17. It's four weeks to go when Dean says, "I want a day."
18. Evan Lorne woke up in the infirmary.
19. “…and you know that big coat he always wears.”
20. Light.
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So, patterns? I think I start most stories with a single line rather than a paragraph. I can usually use my first line as a summary of sorts. 8 out of 20 stories started with speech... I think that's a habit - actually 9 out of 20 if you count the sentence that had speech in it. 2 and 6 seem to be the only full, descriptive sentences. Maybe 13 as well. Also? This points out that I post way less than I used to because I was shocked to see that it took me back into April to hit 20 stories... when I used to produce way more than that.
Comes with having a job where I actually can't write during the day I guess... *grins*
I also thinks it marks the time I've been stuck with my Toshiba and not the Thinkpad that was just really good to write on. The Toshiba is too big. It's great for watching shows on but sucks for writing on... you can't really balance it on your lap in bed or anything because it's too clunky.
Oh, I also used to never write in present tense and now I think it's 50/50. Why? I think because some of my favourite authors write in present tense and I probably picked it up because it was something I liked. I of course am a bandit for switching tenses mid-story. Argh.
Snagged from all over. The first twenty line meme - It calls for the first sentences of your last 20 stories and then you look for patterns.
1. "This happens to us with frightening regularity."
2. Dean is sitting on a shaded bench palming his overgrown bag of peanut M&Ms when he finally spots Sam.
3. "What're you doing?"
4. Most kids can look forward to summer.
5. Matt isn't sure just how he sees him.
6. There was a strange little void in between the cushion and the seat back on the passenger’s side of the Impala that was a catchall to all manner of things.
7. “Uh oh.”
8. “Why do you ask questions for others but never yourself?”
9. “One Winchester all alone, calls two Winchesters on the phone."
10. Pepper Potts drummed her perfectly manicured nails on the counter.
11. So, Cameron Mitchell could pretty much pinpoint the exact moment he became a twelve-year-old girl.
12. "What are you doing?"
13. Dean watched Sam’s back, a rigid angry line, disappearing into the bathroom.
14. Sam’s first coherent thought was nguhhhh.
15. "You're kidding, right?"
16. One summer Sam buys this ridiculously huge convertible because he's sick of being driven everywhere.
17. It's four weeks to go when Dean says, "I want a day."
18. Evan Lorne woke up in the infirmary.
19. “…and you know that big coat he always wears.”
20. Light.
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So, patterns? I think I start most stories with a single line rather than a paragraph. I can usually use my first line as a summary of sorts. 8 out of 20 stories started with speech... I think that's a habit - actually 9 out of 20 if you count the sentence that had speech in it. 2 and 6 seem to be the only full, descriptive sentences. Maybe 13 as well. Also? This points out that I post way less than I used to because I was shocked to see that it took me back into April to hit 20 stories... when I used to produce way more than that.
Comes with having a job where I actually can't write during the day I guess... *grins*
I also thinks it marks the time I've been stuck with my Toshiba and not the Thinkpad that was just really good to write on. The Toshiba is too big. It's great for watching shows on but sucks for writing on... you can't really balance it on your lap in bed or anything because it's too clunky.
Oh, I also used to never write in present tense and now I think it's 50/50. Why? I think because some of my favourite authors write in present tense and I probably picked it up because it was something I liked. I of course am a bandit for switching tenses mid-story. Argh.
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Oh and Toshibas overheat like whoa. My sister has one and it turns into an incandescent black block of plastic that left a permanent burnt-like stain on my mother's table.