I'm Glad I'm Not An Elephant.

[rionaleonhart]

I love the Charlie Brooker fandom, but it's terribly damaging for my confidence as a writer. The standard is simply too good. Even on the anon meme, my writing feels mediocre amongst all the anonymous brilliance; I feel guilty about taking a prompt because I'm sure someone else could fill it better, and I feel embarrassed despite the anonymity

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[rionaleonhart]

You don't need to worry; your writing is superb! Seriously, your grasp of Charlie Brooker's voice is actually frightening.

(ACCEPT MY UNWANTED PALTRY REASSURANCE.)

The answer to your late-night dilemma: you would and you know it.

[rionaleonhart]

As long as I didn't have to talk to me or look at me then it'd be fantastic.

...

...I swear you looked too short to be Charlie Brooker in a cunning disguise when I met you, but...

[wolfy_writing]

Depressingly, my Brooker-voice is actually almost precisely what my own internal monologue sounds like, but with more elaborate metaphors.

This is part of the reason I keep not actually doing fic except for that one time. My mental voice sounds nothing like Charlie Brooker, and there really isn't a Brooker-voice that flows smoothly and easily for me.

(On the alarming side, it is disturbingly easy for me to think like Jeremy Clarkson. All the "Make it go fast, blow it up, set it on fire, crush it, or if all else fails, make it funny" stuff just flows naturally.)

(On the even more alarming side, I find Barry Shitpeas far easier to characterize than Charlie Brooker. We even have the same 'like' and 'yeah' verbal tic.)