Eleven things in order

Sep 02, 2013 07:43

You know there's a dearth of ideas laying around when someone begins a piece with 'so ( Read more... )

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zotz September 2 2013, 09:31:11 UTC
Not always. Seamus Heaney used it to start his translation of Beowulf.

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steer September 2 2013, 12:43:44 UTC
Using this as my corpus http://americanbookreview.org/100bestlines.asp 5 minutes of python hackery gives me this advice.
You should start your novel with "It" (11%) "I" (11%) or "The" (8%) or maybe "In" (6%) or "Once" (4%). For an outside bet, use "He" or "You" (3% each). If you want to take a punt then go with "When" "A" "They" or "If" 2% each. That covers more than 50% of the data and the rest is experimental error. Nice to get some stats on the problem.

"So" had no occurrences.

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