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List the first lines of your last twenty stories. See if you find any patterns.

Because why not?

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So...fffffff. Man, I don't know. Last time I did something like this, it was a pretty even mix of stuff like either #19 or #11. Short, declarative statements or long ones full of nested clauses that stretch the definition of 'sentence' to the breaking point. I still do a fair amount of that last bit, but I think I've gotten a broader range of sentence styles? I also seem to like doing...it's not exactly if/then structure, but like...set-up clause/concluding and/or contrasting clause? See 1, 3, 4, 9, 12, 13...yeah. Not a lot of dialogue--only three out of twenty, and two of those three are weird settings (one being a super-meta story and the other being...mm...I guess the best way to explain it is the viewpoint character is on the edge of a coma?) Anyway. I seem to like long sentences more than short ones...but at least two of these come from pieces that are all but prose poems...so IDK.

Anyone else notice any patterns? I'm curious...