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silver_sunList the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.
1. "What do you mean there's no body?" Gwen says angrily to the woman at the desk, while Rhys stands as silent support behind her.
2. I had drifted through the Rift for so long, formless and un-aging, caught on the currents of time.
3. The world has gone nuts; it’s the only logical explanation.
4. It’s miles from the edge of town when he stops the car, the moonlit forest road deserted.
5. Normally being hot, sweaty and naked in bed is something Jack finds fun.
6. The day had been difficult, and Ianto can see the left over tension still knotted in Jack’s shoulders where he lays on the bed in front of him.
7. It’s been brewing for a while now, the tension, the anger and the impotent rage at situations beyond his control.
8. The night air is chill as the myriad of brightly coloured lights sparkle, their reflections shimmering on the ice and the ocean.
9. Jack drifts on the edge of consciousness, only dimly aware of his surroundings and of the cool hands that lift his head and hold water to his parched lips.
10. In the bed behind him Ianto slumbers, as Jack stands at the casement window, looking out at the moonlit Welsh countryside beyond.
11. Ianto is in the basement archives when the lighting suddenly fails, switching from the harsh brightness of the fluorescent strip lights to the dim red glow of the emergency backup system.
12. Wearily Jack strips off his torn and blooded shirt, feeling the snag and pull of the material where it has dried and stuck against his skin.
13.It is purely by chance that Jack happens upon the Red Dragon bar, hidden away as it is in a side street not far from the Hub.
14. One minute he’d been helping Ianto lift a crate out of the SUV, the next Owen had woken up on a mountainside, in the rain, with Ianto asleep across his legs.
15. Ianto is halfway through his morning routine of shower, shave, and make coffee, when Jack calls him.
16. Owen stumbles out of a pub and into the cold December night, not wishing to be part of the enthusiastic countdown to the New Year that has just started inside.
17. It isn’t so much that somebody is taking office supplies, Ianto really has no problem with people wandering off with a few pens or a packet printer paper, it's just that he’d prefer them to let him know first.
18. Andy switches off his mobile with a sigh, and slouches back on the sofa.
19. Walking quickly along the rain soaked streets, Ianto tries not to look at the skyline ahead of him, which seems strangely bare now that Torchwood Tower has been demolished.
20. Ianto finds the vial in the archives, on one of the long nights he spends working there, too fearful about Lisa’s health and the risk of discovery to go home and rest.
I almost always write in third person present tense. I tend to start straight into some form of action, although I rarely have dialogue as the first sentence. I use long, maybe sometimes too long, sentences.
If anybody can see anything that they think is obvious and I've missed let me know.
1. "What do you mean there's no body?" Gwen says angrily to the woman at the desk, while Rhys stands as silent support behind her.
2. I had drifted through the Rift for so long, formless and un-aging, caught on the currents of time.
3. The world has gone nuts; it’s the only logical explanation.
4. It’s miles from the edge of town when he stops the car, the moonlit forest road deserted.
5. Normally being hot, sweaty and naked in bed is something Jack finds fun.
6. The day had been difficult, and Ianto can see the left over tension still knotted in Jack’s shoulders where he lays on the bed in front of him.
7. It’s been brewing for a while now, the tension, the anger and the impotent rage at situations beyond his control.
8. The night air is chill as the myriad of brightly coloured lights sparkle, their reflections shimmering on the ice and the ocean.
9. Jack drifts on the edge of consciousness, only dimly aware of his surroundings and of the cool hands that lift his head and hold water to his parched lips.
10. In the bed behind him Ianto slumbers, as Jack stands at the casement window, looking out at the moonlit Welsh countryside beyond.
11. Ianto is in the basement archives when the lighting suddenly fails, switching from the harsh brightness of the fluorescent strip lights to the dim red glow of the emergency backup system.
12. Wearily Jack strips off his torn and blooded shirt, feeling the snag and pull of the material where it has dried and stuck against his skin.
13.It is purely by chance that Jack happens upon the Red Dragon bar, hidden away as it is in a side street not far from the Hub.
14. One minute he’d been helping Ianto lift a crate out of the SUV, the next Owen had woken up on a mountainside, in the rain, with Ianto asleep across his legs.
15. Ianto is halfway through his morning routine of shower, shave, and make coffee, when Jack calls him.
16. Owen stumbles out of a pub and into the cold December night, not wishing to be part of the enthusiastic countdown to the New Year that has just started inside.
17. It isn’t so much that somebody is taking office supplies, Ianto really has no problem with people wandering off with a few pens or a packet printer paper, it's just that he’d prefer them to let him know first.
18. Andy switches off his mobile with a sigh, and slouches back on the sofa.
19. Walking quickly along the rain soaked streets, Ianto tries not to look at the skyline ahead of him, which seems strangely bare now that Torchwood Tower has been demolished.
20. Ianto finds the vial in the archives, on one of the long nights he spends working there, too fearful about Lisa’s health and the risk of discovery to go home and rest.
I almost always write in third person present tense. I tend to start straight into some form of action, although I rarely have dialogue as the first sentence. I use long, maybe sometimes too long, sentences.
If anybody can see anything that they think is obvious and I've missed let me know.