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Out of whack.
Since there's nothing like audience participation to engage someone in online social activity, here I go. Post the first lines from your last 20 stories. Do you see a pattern?
I had to go back almost two years to get all of these - I'm doing twenty-one, since the last two were written as a matching set and I don't want to break them up. Among other patterns, I see that I need to write more and I tend to focus on one fandom at a time with a few side excursions.
1. An outstanding tradition of Port Royal’s inns was a deep understanding of the needs of the officers of the Crown, and in consequence, a lenient and kind position towards payment.
2. House knew this was a conversation Wilson had plenty of times, enough to get it down pat, and he’d listened in on it frequently enough to know the script on the other end of the line.
3. She still couldn’t recognize the face in the mirror.
4. Sulu didn't remember the exact wording of the quote he'd read in some English class on post-modern horror, but the gist of the anecdote had stuck with him.
5. It'd started innocently enough - the used bookstore was on the same block as the pet store, so it wasn't much of a hassle to take him along with her - and getting his book had gone easily enough once he'd stopped fawning over the owner for ordering a first edition The Man who Fell to Earth for him, something he didn't stop babbling on about until they got to the fish section - he'd managed to keep his luminous fish alive for nearly a year, anyway - and the trouble only came when Penny said she wanted to buy some Siamese Fighting Fish. Which, for Sheldon, was a remarkable testament to his growing strength of character.
6. Penny tried the door again, huffed when it still didn't unlock itself, and slumped back down on her own bench.
7. When Reuben’s six and his mother comes home from the hospital, she’s holding his new baby brother carefully so she won’t hurt his wings.
8. The first two nights had been overcast and windy; the early-fall rainstorm finally broke through on Thursday but didn’t let up until early in the morning, so they’d waited for Friday night.
9. It was getting harder to be patient.
10. “But you’re not listening to me, are you?”
11. This would be embarrassing if it didn’t hurt so much.
12. The smallest adjustments were the ones that tripped him up the most often.
13. Seven weeks isn’t enough to see it all.
14. At this moment Charlotte Charles is eight years, eight months, twenty-two days, seventeen hours and thirteen seconds old.
15. He didn’t get down on one knee to propose, just leaned over the table and put his hands over yours before he looked you right in the eye and quietly asked you to marry him.
16. Three days into the honeymoon and she’s already using my full name.
17. In retrospect, it’d been a pretty bad idea to begin with, but what Wilson couldn’t wrap his head around was why the guy thought he could pull it off.
18. It has been exactly twenty-two minutes and fourteen seconds since Ned sat down in the good room.
19. When Perry wants to drink, he doesn’t have to go anywhere; he’s got what he likes at home for when he wants to add some alcohol to his system.
20. I’ve needed this.
21. House learned German at the same time he learned English, and in the same way.
I had to go back almost two years to get all of these - I'm doing twenty-one, since the last two were written as a matching set and I don't want to break them up. Among other patterns, I see that I need to write more and I tend to focus on one fandom at a time with a few side excursions.
1. An outstanding tradition of Port Royal’s inns was a deep understanding of the needs of the officers of the Crown, and in consequence, a lenient and kind position towards payment.
2. House knew this was a conversation Wilson had plenty of times, enough to get it down pat, and he’d listened in on it frequently enough to know the script on the other end of the line.
3. She still couldn’t recognize the face in the mirror.
4. Sulu didn't remember the exact wording of the quote he'd read in some English class on post-modern horror, but the gist of the anecdote had stuck with him.
5. It'd started innocently enough - the used bookstore was on the same block as the pet store, so it wasn't much of a hassle to take him along with her - and getting his book had gone easily enough once he'd stopped fawning over the owner for ordering a first edition The Man who Fell to Earth for him, something he didn't stop babbling on about until they got to the fish section - he'd managed to keep his luminous fish alive for nearly a year, anyway - and the trouble only came when Penny said she wanted to buy some Siamese Fighting Fish. Which, for Sheldon, was a remarkable testament to his growing strength of character.
6. Penny tried the door again, huffed when it still didn't unlock itself, and slumped back down on her own bench.
7. When Reuben’s six and his mother comes home from the hospital, she’s holding his new baby brother carefully so she won’t hurt his wings.
8. The first two nights had been overcast and windy; the early-fall rainstorm finally broke through on Thursday but didn’t let up until early in the morning, so they’d waited for Friday night.
9. It was getting harder to be patient.
10. “But you’re not listening to me, are you?”
11. This would be embarrassing if it didn’t hurt so much.
12. The smallest adjustments were the ones that tripped him up the most often.
13. Seven weeks isn’t enough to see it all.
14. At this moment Charlotte Charles is eight years, eight months, twenty-two days, seventeen hours and thirteen seconds old.
15. He didn’t get down on one knee to propose, just leaned over the table and put his hands over yours before he looked you right in the eye and quietly asked you to marry him.
16. Three days into the honeymoon and she’s already using my full name.
17. In retrospect, it’d been a pretty bad idea to begin with, but what Wilson couldn’t wrap his head around was why the guy thought he could pull it off.
18. It has been exactly twenty-two minutes and fourteen seconds since Ned sat down in the good room.
19. When Perry wants to drink, he doesn’t have to go anywhere; he’s got what he likes at home for when he wants to add some alcohol to his system.
20. I’ve needed this.
21. House learned German at the same time he learned English, and in the same way.
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