Eleven things in order

[hirez]

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

So it's early morning, so sue me. So the sky was also a luminous pinky colour. So we shall find out if the business with shepherds is true later, no doubt.

One of the chaps at work has been writing that there skiffy for a while now. And, because he's a productive sort, writing Cthuloid-ish RPGs too.

http://walkwiddershins.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/songs-of-spheres-by-david-j-rodger

Comments

[zotz]

Not always. Seamus Heaney used it to start his translation of Beowulf.

[steer.livejournal.com]

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.