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joonscribble:
Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern.
Okay, then; with 1 being the oldest and 25 the most recent...
1. "How's Charity? The baby?" Harry asked, voice full of concern.
2. Alex Tully pressed the gas pedal a little closer to the floor, then reached up to adjust the rear-view mirror for a better view of the kid.
3. Jonathan rubbed his hands over his arms against the bite of the cooling night air, then stifled a yawn and glanced over at O'Connell and his sister.
4. Lilah stared across the dark, smoky bar at the young man with fire in his eyes and long-fingered, surgeon's hands.
5. Giles frowned at the support request form on his desk, then paged Andrew.
6. Illyria had long suspected that others of her kind might also have escaped the Deeper Well.
7. "I'm going to ask you once," Jordan said intently, "and if I find out you're lying to me, it will forever alter our relationship."
8. "So you're the prophet," the teenager greeted him skeptically, eyeing his suit and briefcase.
9. Falling naked onto a California freeway had been a life-changing experience for Sarah Connor in more ways than one.
10. Lorne stared down from the balcony of Atlantis' gate room, watching the silent ring as though it might activate and disgorge their missing colonel at any moment.
11. "So," Dawn said, setting her mouth in a grim line as she finally cornered her sister in her designated room at Angel's hotel.
12. "You'd be the Bloke Who Survived, then," Spike said, studying the muscular, slightly awkward-looking young man he'd just been made responsible for.
13. John didn't know why he hadn't seen this coming.
14. Even if Wesley hadn't been watching the door carefully, he would have known the moment the man he was meeting had walked into the pub; the effect on the background murmur of conversation was immediate.
15. "Dr. Horrible's rampage through Los Angeles continued unchecked today as yet another bank was attacked--"
16. John McClane ran a shaky hand over his bald scalp, catching his breath-- just for a second, not like he really needed it-- before grunting and heaving himself back to his feet.
17. "Huh," Sherriff Jack Carter commented in surprise, staring as a young, fashionably dressed blonde emerged from the DoD vehicle, nary a suit or briefcase visible in her vicinity.
18. Zoe looked up at her Dad as they walked out of Café Diem at the end of her first day's shift, take two, and frowned a little at the pained expression on his face.
19. Faith approached the group clustered around the new headstones with a wary step.
20. Buffy smoothed a finger over the thick line of raised flesh on Rick's stomach, petting it absently as she curled into his side, bare skin warm against bare skin.
21. "It's not going to be the same when you're gone," the sheriff said, his words transmitted over the internal network of cameras in Lab 27 to a feed on Eva Thorne's laptop.
22. Henry smiled as Zoe approached his table with a fresh pot of coffee, and nudged his empty mug toward her.
23. "That was what," Dawn said thoughtfully, "a lutz-toeloop combination?"
24. "So how's the new girl working out?" Jack asked casually, hands in his pockets as he strolled down the halls of the SGC with his second favorite person still stationed under Cheyenne Mountain.
25. Everything is going to work out the way it's supposed to.
Analysis as follows:
I expected all of that. What I didn't expect is that I skew about equally toward visual description and description of movement, occasionally combined, with sound-word elaborations a very distant third. Now that I think about it, that's probably typical of my fic at large and not just opening sentences; I seem to be pretty good at immersing my readers in visual and tactile cues, but sound (other than actual dialogue) and the other two senses not so much. That's weird because in everyday life, I'm a visual/auditory learner; I guess it's something for me to work on.
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joonscribble:Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern.
Okay, then; with 1 being the oldest and 25 the most recent...
1. "How's Charity? The baby?" Harry asked, voice full of concern.
2. Alex Tully pressed the gas pedal a little closer to the floor, then reached up to adjust the rear-view mirror for a better view of the kid.
3. Jonathan rubbed his hands over his arms against the bite of the cooling night air, then stifled a yawn and glanced over at O'Connell and his sister.
4. Lilah stared across the dark, smoky bar at the young man with fire in his eyes and long-fingered, surgeon's hands.
5. Giles frowned at the support request form on his desk, then paged Andrew.
6. Illyria had long suspected that others of her kind might also have escaped the Deeper Well.
7. "I'm going to ask you once," Jordan said intently, "and if I find out you're lying to me, it will forever alter our relationship."
8. "So you're the prophet," the teenager greeted him skeptically, eyeing his suit and briefcase.
9. Falling naked onto a California freeway had been a life-changing experience for Sarah Connor in more ways than one.
10. Lorne stared down from the balcony of Atlantis' gate room, watching the silent ring as though it might activate and disgorge their missing colonel at any moment.
11. "So," Dawn said, setting her mouth in a grim line as she finally cornered her sister in her designated room at Angel's hotel.
12. "You'd be the Bloke Who Survived, then," Spike said, studying the muscular, slightly awkward-looking young man he'd just been made responsible for.
13. John didn't know why he hadn't seen this coming.
14. Even if Wesley hadn't been watching the door carefully, he would have known the moment the man he was meeting had walked into the pub; the effect on the background murmur of conversation was immediate.
15. "Dr. Horrible's rampage through Los Angeles continued unchecked today as yet another bank was attacked--"
16. John McClane ran a shaky hand over his bald scalp, catching his breath-- just for a second, not like he really needed it-- before grunting and heaving himself back to his feet.
17. "Huh," Sherriff Jack Carter commented in surprise, staring as a young, fashionably dressed blonde emerged from the DoD vehicle, nary a suit or briefcase visible in her vicinity.
18. Zoe looked up at her Dad as they walked out of Café Diem at the end of her first day's shift, take two, and frowned a little at the pained expression on his face.
19. Faith approached the group clustered around the new headstones with a wary step.
20. Buffy smoothed a finger over the thick line of raised flesh on Rick's stomach, petting it absently as she curled into his side, bare skin warm against bare skin.
21. "It's not going to be the same when you're gone," the sheriff said, his words transmitted over the internal network of cameras in Lab 27 to a feed on Eva Thorne's laptop.
22. Henry smiled as Zoe approached his table with a fresh pot of coffee, and nudged his empty mug toward her.
23. "That was what," Dawn said thoughtfully, "a lutz-toeloop combination?"
24. "So how's the new girl working out?" Jack asked casually, hands in his pockets as he strolled down the halls of the SGC with his second favorite person still stationed under Cheyenne Mountain.
25. Everything is going to work out the way it's supposed to.
Analysis as follows:
- Include dialogue: 10 of 25
- Include action/movement of some kind: 13 of 25
- Include at least one comma or semicolon: 19 of 25
- Include name of POV character: 20 of 25
- Are obviously third person (limited) POV: 23 of 25
- Include sensory cues: 3/25 auditory, 11/25 visual, 11/25 kinesthetic
I expected all of that. What I didn't expect is that I skew about equally toward visual description and description of movement, occasionally combined, with sound-word elaborations a very distant third. Now that I think about it, that's probably typical of my fic at large and not just opening sentences; I seem to be pretty good at immersing my readers in visual and tactile cues, but sound (other than actual dialogue) and the other two senses not so much. That's weird because in everyday life, I'm a visual/auditory learner; I guess it's something for me to work on.
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