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I'm wondering if I have a pattern.
List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.
1. Dean's not sure how, but he can tell even though Sam speaks with only his hands, when his brother is being sarcastic.
2. On a Tuesday Sammy comes home with only socks on his feet
3. Dean likes bartending, probably better than any other gig he gets, or at least that's what Sam assumes.
4. Plink.
5. "Oh man, I think I've seen this before."
6. Two months of downtime.
7. John tries to remember exactly why he didn't just leave his two boys in the last truck stop.
8. John drives.
9. The partially inebriated youth in front of him is having trouble with the name McCoy.
10. Dean didn't think he would ever have been in a position where Sam having boobs wasn't the worst thing about a curse.
11. He sits in the dingy basement of a bar, fingers walking the strings of his guitar.
12. At first, Dean's pretty sure that Sam has gone insane.
13. Dean is holding aloft a large object with a blanket draped over it and looking inordinately pleased, which never bodes well for Sam and his current state of sanity.
14. "Do you ever think it's weird?"
15. So there's this curse that neither of them ever talk about.
16. Sammy learns to tie his shoes the first time he's shown.
17. Something hard knocking against her temple wakes her from the depths of slumber.
18. Keep inside your opponent’s swing if he's got a long reach.
19. Every now and again Sam wakes up groggy and disorientated.
20. Dean thinks probably the funniest thing about their whole day was the poor, teeny nerds who ran the joint trying to find a vest that fit his brother.
So, the things I see:
-> I've written 20 stories since January (not including request ficlets). I don't know if that seems like a lot but it's nothing to the way I used to write. Damn job of being busy-ness. Heh.
-> 12/20 have the character's name in the first sentence or it starts with the character's name.
-> I begin in the middle of something alot.
-> I use the first sentence for my cut tags a lot.
-> I start with statements mostly.
Hmmm... interesting.
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List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.
1. Dean's not sure how, but he can tell even though Sam speaks with only his hands, when his brother is being sarcastic.
2. On a Tuesday Sammy comes home with only socks on his feet
3. Dean likes bartending, probably better than any other gig he gets, or at least that's what Sam assumes.
4. Plink.
5. "Oh man, I think I've seen this before."
6. Two months of downtime.
7. John tries to remember exactly why he didn't just leave his two boys in the last truck stop.
8. John drives.
9. The partially inebriated youth in front of him is having trouble with the name McCoy.
10. Dean didn't think he would ever have been in a position where Sam having boobs wasn't the worst thing about a curse.
11. He sits in the dingy basement of a bar, fingers walking the strings of his guitar.
12. At first, Dean's pretty sure that Sam has gone insane.
13. Dean is holding aloft a large object with a blanket draped over it and looking inordinately pleased, which never bodes well for Sam and his current state of sanity.
14. "Do you ever think it's weird?"
15. So there's this curse that neither of them ever talk about.
16. Sammy learns to tie his shoes the first time he's shown.
17. Something hard knocking against her temple wakes her from the depths of slumber.
18. Keep inside your opponent’s swing if he's got a long reach.
19. Every now and again Sam wakes up groggy and disorientated.
20. Dean thinks probably the funniest thing about their whole day was the poor, teeny nerds who ran the joint trying to find a vest that fit his brother.
So, the things I see:
-> I've written 20 stories since January (not including request ficlets). I don't know if that seems like a lot but it's nothing to the way I used to write. Damn job of being busy-ness. Heh.
-> 12/20 have the character's name in the first sentence or it starts with the character's name.
-> I begin in the middle of something alot.
-> I use the first sentence for my cut tags a lot.
-> I start with statements mostly.
Hmmm... interesting.
Really quickly edited to remove: Oh hahahaaa! I just for a second had the first line of my
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I think that's why I'm better at the shorter than the longer fic (in fandom at least) because I always start in the middle of something and so end quickly. :D
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I begin in the middle of something alot.
THIS. I love it! I love when the writer doesn't drag the beginning of the story but rather the reader is immersed in the thick of the story, of the action, of the characters right away. Slow story-building that ends with a bang doesn't do it (much) for me. Don't get me wrong, I like it, but I like more to get involved in the story and the characters right from the beginning. It's probably an attention-spam problem of mine, but there you have it. I tend to look for that kind of beginning even -and especially- in novels that I buy.
Interesting post! Thank you
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