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mad_jaks.
Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern.
There are a couple of these where the first sentence was literally only one or two words, so I've included a bit more for context.
1. I don't descend on Cardiff immediately.
2. Once John had disappeared back into the Rift, the team booked into a hotel to avoid themselves for twelve hours and, with one accord, headed for the bar.
3. Jack walked away from the TARDIS without looking back.
4. "You seriously used to time travel?" Owen asks, in between gasps as Jack roughly fucks him. (Well, that one gets straight to the point! *g*)
5. Lucy screamed and arched as his fangs sank into her neck, but it wasn't a scream of fear and she wasn't arching to get away.
6. "Oh, you'll like this," the Doctor said excitedly, when he realised where they'd landed.
7. Basil had been fretting at the reception desk for hours, listening to his wife's shrill cackles interspersed with the heartier laughs of the handsome stranger in the bar.
8. Tosh stood back and watched Ianto tie up their most recent and unusually humanoid – visitor from through the Rift.
9. Jack's on his way back from the opulent bathroom of the Biqal restaurant when he gets accosted by the Doctor.
10. "You see, the problem is," Giles admits, rubbing a hand over his eyes, glasses already removed and resting on the table between them.
11. It's not hard to find the Master in London in the late summer of 2007, despite the perception filter and the Master's general attempts to avoid drawing the Doctor's attention.
12. "Wait. (Next bit: There's something there, deep in the dark, cold of your head," Drusilla singsongs, and Lucy grits her teeth and holds on, brow furrowing with the effort of not resisting the intrusion of the icy, alien – demon – mind into her own.)
13. Angel's spunk is cold and bitter and dead.
14. "That was cruel," the Doctor says harshly from the bed, accusatory eyes on the Master's face.
15. Jack's eyes drift shut as he sinks to his knees, tension he didn't know he was still harbouring flowing out of him – long exhale, shoulders dropping, hands spreading loosely on his thighs.
16. "That your guitar?" Spike asks, charging across to it.
17. "Jack! (Next bit: There you are! Come on, we need to get going! What on earth took you so long?")
18. Jack's going to live forever.
19. Faith is the strongest person Martha's ever known.
20. Lindsey's had his share of lovers.
21. Angel's on his way back to the Hyperion – above ground, because it's dark out – when he gets jumped by some scaly, purple demons with a lot of annoying spikes.
22. Early morning. (Next bit: I lie on my back, sleepy and warm with the Doctor close beside me, not wrapped around me as he often is but on his back too, head nudging my shoulder, ankle hooked over mine, arm pressed against my side.)
23. The collar was a gift from the widow who took him in after he landed in Cardiff in the early hours of Christmas morning, 1869.
24. Jack's used to the Doctor keeping him waiting.
25. "…I gave up a life of crime for him."
The main pattern I can see is that the opening lines for my longer fics are sometimes (though not always) a bit dull, because I spend a paragraph or two setting the scene, where as the opening lines for the drabbles and ficlets tend to be a lot more interesting - because they have to be.
Also, over half (13) of those start with someone's name. Not always the name of the POV person, but definitely a name.
(Which brings me to something I've noticed from RP. I start an awful lot of sentences/paragraphs with the POV person's name. It's really noticeable when you're RP-ing because you get a column of these comments all beginning with the same word. It's made me really start trying to find other ways to start sentences!)
mad_jaks.Post the first line from your 25 most recent fanfics and try to find a pattern.
There are a couple of these where the first sentence was literally only one or two words, so I've included a bit more for context.
1. I don't descend on Cardiff immediately.
2. Once John had disappeared back into the Rift, the team booked into a hotel to avoid themselves for twelve hours and, with one accord, headed for the bar.
3. Jack walked away from the TARDIS without looking back.
4. "You seriously used to time travel?" Owen asks, in between gasps as Jack roughly fucks him. (Well, that one gets straight to the point! *g*)
5. Lucy screamed and arched as his fangs sank into her neck, but it wasn't a scream of fear and she wasn't arching to get away.
6. "Oh, you'll like this," the Doctor said excitedly, when he realised where they'd landed.
7. Basil had been fretting at the reception desk for hours, listening to his wife's shrill cackles interspersed with the heartier laughs of the handsome stranger in the bar.
8. Tosh stood back and watched Ianto tie up their most recent and unusually humanoid – visitor from through the Rift.
9. Jack's on his way back from the opulent bathroom of the Biqal restaurant when he gets accosted by the Doctor.
10. "You see, the problem is," Giles admits, rubbing a hand over his eyes, glasses already removed and resting on the table between them.
11. It's not hard to find the Master in London in the late summer of 2007, despite the perception filter and the Master's general attempts to avoid drawing the Doctor's attention.
12. "Wait. (Next bit: There's something there, deep in the dark, cold of your head," Drusilla singsongs, and Lucy grits her teeth and holds on, brow furrowing with the effort of not resisting the intrusion of the icy, alien – demon – mind into her own.)
13. Angel's spunk is cold and bitter and dead.
14. "That was cruel," the Doctor says harshly from the bed, accusatory eyes on the Master's face.
15. Jack's eyes drift shut as he sinks to his knees, tension he didn't know he was still harbouring flowing out of him – long exhale, shoulders dropping, hands spreading loosely on his thighs.
16. "That your guitar?" Spike asks, charging across to it.
17. "Jack! (Next bit: There you are! Come on, we need to get going! What on earth took you so long?")
18. Jack's going to live forever.
19. Faith is the strongest person Martha's ever known.
20. Lindsey's had his share of lovers.
21. Angel's on his way back to the Hyperion – above ground, because it's dark out – when he gets jumped by some scaly, purple demons with a lot of annoying spikes.
22. Early morning. (Next bit: I lie on my back, sleepy and warm with the Doctor close beside me, not wrapped around me as he often is but on his back too, head nudging my shoulder, ankle hooked over mine, arm pressed against my side.)
23. The collar was a gift from the widow who took him in after he landed in Cardiff in the early hours of Christmas morning, 1869.
24. Jack's used to the Doctor keeping him waiting.
25. "…I gave up a life of crime for him."
The main pattern I can see is that the opening lines for my longer fics are sometimes (though not always) a bit dull, because I spend a paragraph or two setting the scene, where as the opening lines for the drabbles and ficlets tend to be a lot more interesting - because they have to be.
Also, over half (13) of those start with someone's name. Not always the name of the POV person, but definitely a name.
(Which brings me to something I've noticed from RP. I start an awful lot of sentences/paragraphs with the POV person's name. It's really noticeable when you're RP-ing because you get a column of these comments all beginning with the same word. It's made me really start trying to find other ways to start sentences!)
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And I had to laugh a bit over your comment for #4!
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And hee! I guess there aren't that many opening lines with the word 'fuck' in them. In that context anyway!
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Oh, you wrote Lucy and Dru together. I was contemplating how much fun that would be to write quite recently.
And yay for cold dead (and bitter) seed. ;)
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Lucy and Dru are fabulous together. They only came about because of a discussion where we realised they could be similar but I'm really glad they did! You should write them!
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3) past tense "rools"
7)??? Fawlty Towers???
There's a few there I don't recognise - mostly from when I was finding it hard to do *anything*
*meeps softly*