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Via [personal profile] legionseagle:

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.

The interesting part is watching the AO3 work number go from 8 digits to 5 as I go back in time. )

My favorite is #15; the main character's voice is clear from the start. I'm also partial to #12, #10, and #6. I don't notice any particular pattern.

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Jan. 30th, 2021 05:20 pm
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For once, doing one of these within a year of the source becoming popular!

Cwyllan Mannes Bāt (379 words) by Castiron
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Beowulf (Poem), The Wellerman (Song)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Series: Part 3 of Beowulf Fragments
Summary:

A sailor's tale in Heorot.

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The Big Blue Box Problem (1645 words) by Castiron
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Peg + Cat (TV), Doctor Who (2005)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Peg, Cat - Character, Eleventh Doctor, Richard
Additional Tags: Screenplay/Script Format
Summary:

Peg, Cat, and Richard go looking for their lost toys and meet a man in a big blue box. Then there's a Really Big Problem.

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In my ACD Holmes/BBC Sherlock crossover fic Not Yet Dead, I had a throwaway reference to a poem Kipling had written in that 'verse called "Be A Man as Watson Was". I tossed around the idea of writing some of that poem but never did anything with it.

Enter M. Vernet, a contributor at McMurdo's Camp, who wrote a lovely poem in the comments and kindly gave me permission to repost here. I apologize to her for taking six months to get around to it!

Be a man as Watson was.... )

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