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icarus_chained) wrote2008-08-31 12:42 am
icarus_chained) wrote2008-08-31 12:42 am
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I've seen various versions of this, so I'm going with the simplest, owing to being mostly brain-dead at the minute ;)
Post the first lines of your 20 most recent fics, and see if there are any patterns.
Some minor alterations, as I apparently cannot write in a simple fashion. So. I'm not counting drabbles (500 or less), or long fics made up of drabbles (Moments, Dreams of Human Evil ...). Multichps, and fics with sequels, I'm only taking the first line of the first part, no matter which part I bump into while scrolling back.
Phew! That's complicated. There's a pattern, right there. I can't write in straight lines.
1) Commander Clark Kent of the Metropolis Aerial Defense Force stood to one side of the City Bridge, just to the left of Lord Luthor's central dais, and scanned the empty cloudscape beyond the great for'ard Glass. (Steampunk, Part I, counting from part X)
2) "Something's wrong." (Choices and Chances)
3) His face is new. (Real)
4) Alfred hadn't seen it coming. (Protect and Serve)
5) In his time among them, Alfred had taught all of his collected family to dance. (Dancing Lessons)
6) She was in love again. (Brute Beauty - counting back from Fierce Fragility)
7) He and Avon fought regularly. (Seeing)
8) After the white ones had returned, and the agony of flame, J'onn had gone swimming with Arthur. (The Deep Quiet)
9) Neither of them knew it at first, but they had both taken to touching him in the same fleeting instant. (An Infinite Lightness of Touch)
10) The woman sat beneath the statue, the blade resting on her knees. (Against the Dawn)
11) She shouldn't have been surprised. (Tiger and Hawk)
12) Alfred sighed lightly as he rounded the last turn of the Batcave stairs, listening to the quiet, emphatic statements that signifed what counted for a raging arguement for these particular people. (True Deceptions, counting back from Old Hearts)
13) Clark watched the dance contentedly, leaning back against the groaning buffet table and smiling quietly at Alfred as the frazzled older man passed by on his way to politely eviscerate an unfortunate waiter. (Pas de Trois, counting back from Takes Three to Tango)
14) The day Kalm went back to the Viewers, with the thanks of the Royal Family, the Queen had turned to Raw and asked him if he'd rather go with him. (Home)
15) She watched them at the dance, her sister and her dearest friends, from a shadowed corner tucked away near a handy exit. (Peace)
16) There was a package waiting for me on my desk this morning. (Gotham Noir, Part I, counting from part 7)
17) Glitch looked around him, and felt a sudden, powerful urge to start humming, or challenge Cain to a duel, or propose a game of canasta, whatever that was. (Mind & Soul)
18) "Mon Capitaine?" (Thank You)
19) If you could go back to the past, to a critical point in your life, just long enough to tell yourself one thing, what would it be? (The Triumph of Blood)
20) They stared in silence into the yawning mouth of the cave, the Princess and the Martian. (In the Hall of the Grey King, Part 1, counting back from part 2)
Patterns? Ah, lets see:
1) I seem to go for either long and descriptive, or completely innocuous in opening sentances.
2) I very rarely start a fic with dialogue. I think I prefer some set-dressing first, or something.
3) The first sentance appears to be primarily to settle me into the POV of the fic, and the mood. More like a personal reference point than anything to help the readers. Heh. Guess I'm a selfish writer.
4) In a good few of them, the first line actually does tell a lot of the point of the story. This surprises me a little. I didn't think I was that organised ;)
Heh. In short, I seem to write whatever comes at the time, and work from there, with very little consideration for the people who actually have to read all my crap.
Post the first lines of your 20 most recent fics, and see if there are any patterns.
Some minor alterations, as I apparently cannot write in a simple fashion. So. I'm not counting drabbles (500 or less), or long fics made up of drabbles (Moments, Dreams of Human Evil ...). Multichps, and fics with sequels, I'm only taking the first line of the first part, no matter which part I bump into while scrolling back.
Phew! That's complicated. There's a pattern, right there. I can't write in straight lines.
1) Commander Clark Kent of the Metropolis Aerial Defense Force stood to one side of the City Bridge, just to the left of Lord Luthor's central dais, and scanned the empty cloudscape beyond the great for'ard Glass. (Steampunk, Part I, counting from part X)
2) "Something's wrong." (Choices and Chances)
3) His face is new. (Real)
4) Alfred hadn't seen it coming. (Protect and Serve)
5) In his time among them, Alfred had taught all of his collected family to dance. (Dancing Lessons)
6) She was in love again. (Brute Beauty - counting back from Fierce Fragility)
7) He and Avon fought regularly. (Seeing)
8) After the white ones had returned, and the agony of flame, J'onn had gone swimming with Arthur. (The Deep Quiet)
9) Neither of them knew it at first, but they had both taken to touching him in the same fleeting instant. (An Infinite Lightness of Touch)
10) The woman sat beneath the statue, the blade resting on her knees. (Against the Dawn)
11) She shouldn't have been surprised. (Tiger and Hawk)
12) Alfred sighed lightly as he rounded the last turn of the Batcave stairs, listening to the quiet, emphatic statements that signifed what counted for a raging arguement for these particular people. (True Deceptions, counting back from Old Hearts)
13) Clark watched the dance contentedly, leaning back against the groaning buffet table and smiling quietly at Alfred as the frazzled older man passed by on his way to politely eviscerate an unfortunate waiter. (Pas de Trois, counting back from Takes Three to Tango)
14) The day Kalm went back to the Viewers, with the thanks of the Royal Family, the Queen had turned to Raw and asked him if he'd rather go with him. (Home)
15) She watched them at the dance, her sister and her dearest friends, from a shadowed corner tucked away near a handy exit. (Peace)
16) There was a package waiting for me on my desk this morning. (Gotham Noir, Part I, counting from part 7)
17) Glitch looked around him, and felt a sudden, powerful urge to start humming, or challenge Cain to a duel, or propose a game of canasta, whatever that was. (Mind & Soul)
18) "Mon Capitaine?" (Thank You)
19) If you could go back to the past, to a critical point in your life, just long enough to tell yourself one thing, what would it be? (The Triumph of Blood)
20) They stared in silence into the yawning mouth of the cave, the Princess and the Martian. (In the Hall of the Grey King, Part 1, counting back from part 2)
Patterns? Ah, lets see:
1) I seem to go for either long and descriptive, or completely innocuous in opening sentances.
2) I very rarely start a fic with dialogue. I think I prefer some set-dressing first, or something.
3) The first sentance appears to be primarily to settle me into the POV of the fic, and the mood. More like a personal reference point than anything to help the readers. Heh. Guess I'm a selfish writer.
4) In a good few of them, the first line actually does tell a lot of the point of the story. This surprises me a little. I didn't think I was that organised ;)
Heh. In short, I seem to write whatever comes at the time, and work from there, with very little consideration for the people who actually have to read all my crap.