Stolen from flyingharmony .

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses" to ( Read more... )

Snagged this from meridian_rose .

I found this interesting, because my usual D&D, Fable, and DAO character profiles are good/neutral aligned Elves who are either mages or thief archers. Also in my quiz I actually scored 11 Lawful Good and 10 Neutral Good, so I feel that's pretty accurate, but I didn't C&P the detailed results because no1curr.

I Am A: Lawful Good ( Read more... )

Taking a little break from beta-ing hrhrionastar 's absolutely-amazing-you-must-read-it Darken/Cara fic, and I thought I'd do the HiH House Sorting Meme just to clear the cobwebs out of my head. <3

Got this from scarletladyy

My sorting was between Ravenclaw and Slytherin, which I pretty much figured would be the case, though I wasn't expecting to be as overwhelmingly ( Read more... )

Hello!

I've been good today and done a lot of modding, updated a lot of fics on ff.net (Dragon Blood is up to chapter 10! I'll get it moved to LJ this weekend), and worked myself into a frothy rage over MS Prop 26.

( Lesley Ann Brandt and MS Prop 26 )

I thought this was interesting, and something relatively mindless I could do before class. I'll be answering all your lovely comments later this afternoon, I promise!

Under the cut is a list of books. Bold those you've read. Italicize those you want to read. Look at my list and see what books we have in common! This really made me realize how much ( Read more... )

I stole this from meridian_rose . It looked really fun/interesting.

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
- Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do readers immediately look for?

So, tell me, what you do expect from my work? What makes it recognizable as mine stylistically? What makes it recognizable ( Read more... )

3 - How reliable are your narrators? Can we believe everything they say? Or are they unreliable, their narration shaded by their feelings? Do your readers usually have more information than the character narrating? Do you use an external narrator, who is not part of the story? Are they reliable? Do you prefer reading a reliable or unreliable ( Read more... )

2 - Are the writing styles from the first question the only ones we have to work with? Do other styles, as James Wood says, not resemble narration?

As meridian_rose  said in her answer to this question, it depends on how narrowly we are defining narration. From a purely stylistic point of view, I would say that we are limited by society's expectations of a ( Read more... )

1 - What style of narration do you usually write in? Which do you prefer to read? First person singular, first person plural, second person singular (rarely well executed) , third person limited, third person omniscient? Are certain styles superior to others? Why or why not?

When writing fiction, I usually write in what I always thought of as ' ( Read more... )

This meme was designed by pristineungift  based upon the chapters of the book How Fiction Works by James Wood, as a gift to meridian_rose , who enjoys Writing Memes. It is meant to aid writers, both of fanfiction and original material, in understanding their writing process through exploring different techniques and styles of writing. This is roughly the first half of the ( Read more... )