: I feel stuck in a [description/action] sentence structure I'm writing the first draft of a story, I've found that increasingly, I'm writing sentences in a format (I don't know the technical name

I'm writing the first draft of a story, I've found that increasingly, I'm writing sentences in a format (I don't know the technical name of this) similar to below -

Coming to a stop at the foot of the dias, he knelt.

Raising his right fist to his heart, he said.

Leading the crowd, he strode through.

While doing a cursory reading, the sentences felt strange and jarring to me but I'm not sure. Are sentences of these type OK or should I refrain from using sentences of that type ? Also, how to make them more...crisp, perhaps ?

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