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Swiped from ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) velithya
Rules: List the first lines of your last 20 stories (if you have less than 20, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favourite opening line.
( Working backwards from most recent stories: )
Hmm, patterns.
9/20 start with the viewpoint character's name.
What's somewhat notable to me is that there is some difference between how I start fics that are continuations of a series relative to ones that aren't. Series continuations are a lot more likely to run with the expectation that the reader will understand something of the framework/setting specifics, unless you're looking at ridiculous future bullshit entries, which are usually outsider POV and are going hard for characterisation of the viewpoint character.
It also seems to run a little bit in waves, because often it seems like a few stories in succession will have a similar opening style - but the stories aren't posted in exactly the order they were written, in places, so I don't even know if that's anything but coincidence.
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