Writing meme

[unfeathered]

Seen absolutely everywhere on my flist:

What would you say are the trademarks of my writing? What themes or quirks or turns of phrase have you noticed? What is it that makes a story by me -- well, a story by me?

This is going to be interesting... :-)

Comments

[unfeathered]

It's so cool that everyone is saying this. I wasn't quite sure what to expect from this meme, but this is way beyond whatever it was! It's just so great that what I feel I'm writing is actually what people are reading! And even more so than I realised.

Your comment about a camera that no-one notices is fantastic!

The motivations thing is something I got from Becky going on and on about it - and I've now got to the point where I actually know why something isn't working - it's because I haven't got the characters' motivations sorted out in my own head.

I'm grinning madly from all your compliments! :-)

(And I'm sorry I haven't got back to Brit-picking your stuff yet. Things have been made around here - and in my brain - recently, but as soon as I get a lull I will have another go!)

[morgynleri]

*offers chocolate-chip cookies*

Motivations are what I usually refer to as "getting into a character's head", so I know about not getting them right. Particularly with one character, and I'm not going to get started, because a page of rant on Dumbledore being an impossible old git of a muse really isn't what I want to do right now.

Heh. Good to make someone happy. Makes my day better.

No worries about delays in the Brit-picking. I've currently been pounced upon by a different muse with original stuff. Well, a couple. One in the same universe as Max and Vain, the other the titular character of another universe. And Gideon has his own set of oddities... fortunately, not accent. History, though, I suspect I shall have entirely too much fun with.

[unfeathered]

Just come back to answer this after two days of in-depth conversations with my beta trying to get my head round S1 Jack - the first time I've ever really had trouble getting into someone's head, and I so didn't expect it to be JAck! I thought I'd have trouble with Rose and Nine, but they were fine. It's just Jack, because he's so very complicated and there's so much we don't know - and I've basically had to re-write my entire Rose and Jack fic because of that. And of course it's going to be so much better, but it threw me a little, because - as you said above - getting into characters' heads and motivations normally comes really easily to me!

Ah well... It wouldn't be art if we didn't have to suffer for it occasionally... *g*

[morgynleri]

I have trouble when I'm trying to write Rose, which may be why I'm just as happy doing Nine before he meets Rose, or AU Nine where he doesn't meet Rose... though the dynamics between him and Jack will be different without Rose... especially with the addition of, say, Vain, into the mix.

Which means the motivations change, and... *sighs* And my writing partner for that story vanished, which leaves the fun of Jack, Nine and Vain at the Apollo 11 launch hanging. Fortunately, well before I posted any of it. I might have to try and revamp it slightly, and write it all m'self... which isn't as much fun for something like that, 'cause it's all light-hearted and snark, not drama with hints of humour and angst both wound up in it.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I is a slavedriver yes?

[unfeathered]

Are you spying on me??? *g*

You're a very good slavedriver. I like to be challenged! :-)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

No I-
Was looking to see if I'd actually commented on the original question andskimming through what people had already said - That's ALL honest *g*

[unfeathered]

Oh, all right, then - I'll let you off.

And no, you didn't actually answer the question! *g*

(Cool icon btw!)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling I hadn't... I'll come back to it though ;)