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[flambeau]

Back while I was writing my sesa and yuletide stories, I really wanted to do an lj post about writing habits and writing techniques. Now I don't have to be secret any more, I'll try to make this post be that post

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[nopseud]

The only author I guessed was you.

There were a few lines in it, which I could probably find again if you're interested, and which just made me say, yep, that *has* to be torch. After that, I did also check your formatting choices and looked up a few spellings just to make sure ('godammit' is a good test word because there's quite a lot of variety in the people's spelling of it) and that matched, but I would have been really surprised to be wrong at that point.

[flambeau]

Of course I'd love to know which lines, but only if you feel like looking for them - I mean, not if it's troublesome. I'm just curious to know whether the things I would think of as being recognizable are the things that are recognizable to other people. :)

I didn't actually guess a single sesa writer correctly(out of the about 50% of the stories I'd read before the reveal, mind), and only two yuletide stories (out of the approximately 25%, ditto). Truthfully, most of the people whose writing I know well enough to identify, I already knew which stories they'd written from having betaed or otherwise participated in the creation process. *g*

[nopseud]

I should have made more nites at the time, but it was ridiculously late at night when I read it

[flambeau]

Whee! thank you so much, that is so sweet of you! And interesting, to me. *g* I would have suspected it would be (even) more dialogue, but looking at this, you are so right about the descriptive passages. Some of these are totally bits I would have pointed to, too, if I were trying to say "look, clearly this is me, here." And some of them aren't, which is also eenteresting. I think I probably do stuff that I don't know that I do. *g*

What would you say that your most characteristic writing tics are?

[nopseud]

I would have suspected it would be (even) more dialogue

A bunch of the lines I cut out to make it down to 14 were dialogue :-) They were all very torch, but I was trying to get a selection in. There's also the broader things, like the lack on internal dialogue and instead conveying mood etc with actions, which is really characteristic of your popslash.

Hmm. Probably I shouldn't have left the hobbit line in the list, because I wouldn't necessarily be able to peg that as you just from it sitting there on its own. It's just really, really funny :-) In context, though, it's very you, with the great punchline at the end of a scene.

By the way, I don't remember if I mentioned in the fb how much I loved the AJ/Lance stuff. I actually noticed even more of it this time through, from the pair of them being missing from the beginning scenes, right through to AJ not going with the others BSB boys to the elevator at the end. Nifty.

What would you say that your most characteristic writing tics are?Huh. Wow, that's difficult to think

[flambeau]

I saw that someone... hmm. melymbrosia, it was, had made a poll in her lj asking people if they had identified her yuletide stories, and if so, by what. Maybe that's an idea for you. I seem to have an idea in my head about what your stories feel like, for want of a better phrase, but I'm not sure I could put it in particularly technical terms, or even pick out sections that demonstrate it. And since I never made it through the sesa before the reveal, there was no attempt at practical application.

So glad to hear, re Lance/AJ! They kind of sneaked up on me. *g*