Twist on the "how you know it's me" meme

[amanuensis1]

I like the "top ten things that tell a reader it's one of my fics" meme, but I'm not so clueful as to recognize these elements in my own stories. You guys are boggling me with how insightful you are towards your own writing style. I mean, sure, I write certain characters a lot, and there are themes like smut and non-con, but I don't think about writing style when I write--I think about the specific story and where it's going and that's pretty much it. I just...write, the way that I do because that's what I do and how it comes out.

So, fine. A number of you have said you were able to peg my stories in the anonymous fic exchanges right away. Help me out here: tell me how. Yes, that's right, I'm asking you to do the meme for me. This is not a roundabout way of asking for compliments; I'd really like to know what I do that not everyone does in order to understand style better. And if it's just, "Well, you write those characters and you write non-con," let me know! That way I can know it's that simple and there's no other magic to it. (Well-meaning negative feedback is certainly welcome as well.)

Comments

[greenmouse.livejournal.com]

I think your Lucius. I've honestly never seen anyone write him the way you do, and it's what made me completely fall for you as a writer. So, yeah. Umn. You rock!

Also: If ponderosa illustrates it.

[greenmouse.livejournal.com]

Scratch that. ponderosa121 -- I've no clue who ponderosa is but it doesn't appear to be the artist.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

HEE! First I'm blushing and then I'm grinning. Yeah, Ponderosa's amazing, isn't she. I'm not sure there've been better moments in my whole life than the run of art she did for all the Pornish Pixies stories I wrote in 2004. I'm thrilled you like Lucius the way I paint him. I guess I put all my own fantasies into the dude. (See, all writing is just Mary-Sue-ism disguised. ^_^)