Oh, What the Heck

[ithildin]

In for a penny, in for a pound.

Pillaged from wiliqueen

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?

Comments

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

That would be your excellent OFCs :)

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Oooh! An actual response! [g] I almost didn't post thing thinking no one would reply. So, thank you. Oddly enough, mischief5 and I were talking about OFCs last night.

[dejla.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, I think I'd expect to see the major female character having competence issues--that is, although she is competent, and when she's not thinking about it, she has no problems, she's afraid of turning out to be incompetent at something she needs to be able to do.

There's also the mentor/mentored trope -- that one I notice because I use it too: sometimes the lines between friendship and sex, or friendship and love, get blurred.

Your powerful men often walk into situations where they find themselves hitting the wall with their partner and realize that they're not able to pressure the partner into doing what they want and have to either give in or find another way around the situation.

I think maybe I should shut up now.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Why should you shut up? I always enjoy discussing fic with you :) Silly!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

So, in between computer crashes....

I have lots of really stubborn women in my fic, huh? [g]

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

Almost everything you write seems as if it could possibly fit into the same universe. The characterizations are consistent, and even the timelines seem to match up. No 100 different first kisses for you! It's like there's one great epic story in your head being slowly revealed, bit by bit.

Which is cool.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

even the timelines seem to match up

There's a reason for my Excel spreadsheet! :) Seriously, I have one. I'd be lost without it [g]

[keerawa.livejournal.com]

I find that rather terrifying, for some reason. Do the final entries involve taking over, subverting, or destroying any part of the world I might miss?

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

I use it to make sure I don't have characters in two places at once, and to remember the years of significant events. with a series spanning nearly 500 years, it can get confusing if I don't have a reference. so I check and make sure I don't duplicate a year, then after, I'll fill in a few notes on the spreadsheet as a marker for later.

The spreadsheet/timeline doesn't contain any information that hasn't already appeared in a story. I'm not sure if I'm explaining it properly or not. In other words, I don't know what's going to happen yet in most cases. The spreadsheet isn't a series outline for what's going to happen.

Now that I've totally confused everyone... :)