What's Your Style? - A Meme
What kind of stuff do you write? What is the watermark by which a discerning eye can look at your work and know that it's yours?
Anyway, I'll get you started:
I don't write stories. I write extended metaphors, and obsessive ones at that. My experience with the craft is so limited that I can't describe anything unless I have some second meaning to help me write what I'm saying. Very large chunks of my past selves tend to find their way into the main characters, so that the writing becomes a bit of an attempted exorcism (this is just one step better than writing about your current self, and I eventually want to write about other people, now that I grant them provisional reality. I'm starting to see the value in having distance from yourself and the narrator; if you must write as yourself, do it with retrospect, at a distance from which you can see ironies. I don't set out to write about myself any more than I attempt to imitate my own handwriting. I mostly hope I grow out of it). If it's drenched with symbolism and of inconsistent quality, it might be something I wrote. If it's published, it's not something I wrote. Sadly, I have seen what good writing looks like, and am thus thrust out of the Garden of Eden, never to return. But that is a metaphor, whose extensions I will now spare you.
Alright, folks. It's a meme, so hop to it. If you play along and your self-evaluation sounds interesting, I might be inspired to check your stuff out. If you do some other kind of creative work, you can describe that instead as a substitute.
Anyway, I'll get you started:
I don't write stories. I write extended metaphors, and obsessive ones at that. My experience with the craft is so limited that I can't describe anything unless I have some second meaning to help me write what I'm saying. Very large chunks of my past selves tend to find their way into the main characters, so that the writing becomes a bit of an attempted exorcism (this is just one step better than writing about your current self, and I eventually want to write about other people, now that I grant them provisional reality. I'm starting to see the value in having distance from yourself and the narrator; if you must write as yourself, do it with retrospect, at a distance from which you can see ironies. I don't set out to write about myself any more than I attempt to imitate my own handwriting. I mostly hope I grow out of it). If it's drenched with symbolism and of inconsistent quality, it might be something I wrote. If it's published, it's not something I wrote. Sadly, I have seen what good writing looks like, and am thus thrust out of the Garden of Eden, never to return. But that is a metaphor, whose extensions I will now spare you.
Alright, folks. It's a meme, so hop to it. If you play along and your self-evaluation sounds interesting, I might be inspired to check your stuff out. If you do some other kind of creative work, you can describe that instead as a substitute.