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[varadia]

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/tag by me -- well, a story/tag by me?

And if you want to request a drabble when answering this, go ahead. I will be slow, as I have about ten drabbles already promised, but!

I like writing challenges.

Today at work is a slow day. I am still teaching the new grad student, and I have my lesson plans to prepare, and I have my own experiment to get going. And my shoulder hurts.

I think I am most annoyed by the sore shoulder. I have changed my pillow, I have changed the way I sleep, I have done relaxation exercises, and my neck is STILL TIGHTER THAN A THING THAT IS TIGHT.

*sigh*

Bleh. Ah well. I shall persevere. And maybe rip out the muscles in my neck, or something.

Fits of rage are so cathartic. The aftermath'd just be a pain. Woe.

Comments

[vivien]

You have the wry asides down. Which is a good thing! That is one mark of your style, though, the quick sentence that casts a slightly quirky light on narration.

My day is slow tooo. I am at home with the blahs, but there is sleep. Glorious sleep.

[varadia]

I envy you. *sadface*

And hee. I keep trying not to put those in non-Raven tags, and then I am just like--that will never work.

But I try!

*snugs*

Blahs suck.

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

It may be stress hurting your shoulder - is there anything coming up that might be making you tense? I ask because I had that for a week leading up to Millicon, because I have a deep-seated horror of travelling. Hence: Ow.

Ummm. Hot baths? Many of them? Not really much else I can suggest, except strategic painkillers to make it bearable. :(

[varadia]

Canasta always makes me think of Jocasta. It is weird. *solemn*

And, yeah. I am in a PhD program, and my boss is a demanding man. *wry* The times I am not stressed I can count on one hand, and are my two weeks of vacation every year. Whee?

Painkillers might be nice. And a hot compress type thing. Maybe when I get home!

*hugs*

[wakeupnew]

What I notice about your writing is more of a structural thing than anything.

There are often one or two lines of dialogue or exposition, and then a space, and then more one or two lines.

So it winds up looking something like this.

You know what I mean?

Also, I second the wonderful wry notes. :D

[varadia]

*snickers*

Yeah, I know what you mean. I blame Raven. I did the spacing thing initially to give the text the same kind of jerky feeling that his movements have. Because he talks like that, too.

And then it stuck! I am impressionable like that.

Go me and my quirky? *g*

[jothra]

You like to add layers to scenes and situations, and make people wonder. So when you do slap down something straightforward, everyone is all 'what? no, it can't be that easy'. But it is.

Also I cannot explain it, but there is just a certain Lynneness to some of the stuff you write. I think it comes from having talked to you on AIM for quite a while, as well as reading what you write. Some of you carries over. Especially your sense of humor!

[varadia]

*chalks another up in the wry asides column!*

I am predictable!

*grins*

I do try for the layers thing, though. I like it when people distrust the plainly obvious. Most of my characters do, too.

Heh?

[genarti]

Line breaks! Um, in tags. I am not as sure about fics.

Also things like... confirming what a character says, either by saying "He is/does," or with some other short sentence expanding on it. (Often with a certain degree of oblique humor.) If that makes sense. *grasps for coherency*

[varadia]

Like:

"Line of dialogue."

He is kidding.

Really.

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Like that?

[genarti]

Yes, precisely.

Or, like:

"I do this."

He does.

[Canon thing] is a bitch.

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That sort of thing.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I agree with the line breaks and the wry asides. Also a tendency to phrase good things backhandedly.

[varadia]

I am with you on the first two!

I am unsure what you mean by the last one. *curious*

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

I am so not awake enough to explain its relevance to you very well, but what I meant was:

For example, I want to say Bobby is smart. The normal way to say this is "Bobby is smart." The negative or backhanded way would be "Bobby isn't stupid."

[varadia]

*laughs*

Oh, man. I DO do that.

And again it started with Raven, who, while he is not stupid, is not always smart, either.

It is a trickster thing.

And then that phrasing stuck. *wry*

Whee? *pats you* Go sleep?

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

O hay Lynne.

Remember this one thread (http://community.livejournal.com/milliways_bar/15841764.html?thread=650879460#t650879460)? The one that I asked for, months and months back, and then dropped, because I suck?

Well, stuff happened between Sam and Father Mulcahy (notably, Mulcahy finding out that Sam is Lucifer, because Sam was an idiot and forgot to warn Medusa thoroughly that she shouldn't call him that in public), and I got to thinking about it. And proceeded to re-read that old thread, and realised I did have a tag after all, and thought to catch you on AIM and ask about it. But! There was no catching a Lynne, and I was sad and impatient, and, er, tagged. So. Uh. There is a nine-month-old thread with a tag on it for you. Totally up to you if you want to pick this up again; God knows I wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to, given my previous suckitude.

But. Er. There is a tag.

:D?

[varadia]

I saw! I will pick it up.

I have been so bad with Aslan lately.

SORRY ASHIE AND DI.

*passes tea*

I'll probably hit it up after work, though. So we will be in ultraslowtime!

[bethan-b-bad.livejournal.com]

HI I LOVE YOU.

*passes cake*