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ruuger and others:
Rules: List the first lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.
"So..." Jon finally asked. "Now what?" *
Sometimes Michelle has to remind herself that the woman who comes to visit her is her daughter. *
Buffy raised her front right leg to deliver the finishing kick, while the cornered wolf looked about in panic for the rest of its flock. *
Willow woke up on the library floor with a groan of pain, because that's how you wake up after being smashed under a bookcase, or under anything really. *
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the camp *
From the bridge of the V/S Þor, Árni has seen so many boats by now; from the big cruiseliners that barely notice the waves to tiny open dinghys beating their spray-soaked way west across the ocean, navigating by hope and rumour, desperate for sanctuary. *
It's not that she doesn't trust Root (which is annoying in and of itself) when she says she had the Machine come up with a sweater pattern that makes the wearer invisible to surveillance systems; she just doesn't understand why that means it has to be red and green and feature very odd-looking reindeer. *
Ensi wishes she could love the summer. *
Buffy says Dawn's just looking for an excuse to have two birthdays, which, hey, what would be wrong with that? *
Angel hadn't been to a bar since getting his soul, more than 85 years ago now, and sworn to live alone far away from the temptation that every living, breathing, blood-filled human was to his tortured soul... *
This just wasn't OK, Barry the Wheelbarrow thought several times as the Fat One rolled him along streets that hadn't been repaved in a long time. *
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Well, I may be kind of cheating since at least two of these come from three-sentence fics. But an alarming amount of these seem to set up the central conflict/problem/what have you of the fic in the very first sentence. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but they're mostly short, so it's by necessity I guess. 9 out of 10 also introduce the main character by name.
Also, only 1 out of 10 is all-moose AU. I'd been hoping that would be a new thing, but I guess not.
ruuger and others:Rules: List the first lines of your last 10 published stories. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.
"So..." Jon finally asked. "Now what?" *
Sometimes Michelle has to remind herself that the woman who comes to visit her is her daughter. *
Buffy raised her front right leg to deliver the finishing kick, while the cornered wolf looked about in panic for the rest of its flock. *
Willow woke up on the library floor with a groan of pain, because that's how you wake up after being smashed under a bookcase, or under anything really. *
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the camp *
From the bridge of the V/S Þor, Árni has seen so many boats by now; from the big cruiseliners that barely notice the waves to tiny open dinghys beating their spray-soaked way west across the ocean, navigating by hope and rumour, desperate for sanctuary. *
It's not that she doesn't trust Root (which is annoying in and of itself) when she says she had the Machine come up with a sweater pattern that makes the wearer invisible to surveillance systems; she just doesn't understand why that means it has to be red and green and feature very odd-looking reindeer. *
Ensi wishes she could love the summer. *
Buffy says Dawn's just looking for an excuse to have two birthdays, which, hey, what would be wrong with that? *
Angel hadn't been to a bar since getting his soul, more than 85 years ago now, and sworn to live alone far away from the temptation that every living, breathing, blood-filled human was to his tortured soul... *
This just wasn't OK, Barry the Wheelbarrow thought several times as the Fat One rolled him along streets that hadn't been repaved in a long time. *
----
Well, I may be kind of cheating since at least two of these come from three-sentence fics. But an alarming amount of these seem to set up the central conflict/problem/what have you of the fic in the very first sentence. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, but they're mostly short, so it's by necessity I guess. 9 out of 10 also introduce the main character by name.
Also, only 1 out of 10 is all-moose AU. I'd been hoping that would be a new thing, but I guess not.
