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

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

*nods* The dialogue is definitely what I notice - but then, I think my last story had only a couple dozen lines of it in 13,000 words, so your writing really appeals to me with the attitude of "Stores should be told by what people say."

(And I read that line above as "fangirl you madly with my left hand..." Which of course led me to wonder, wait, what does that mean her right hand is doing...?

*coughs* Well, it goes without saying that the incredible hotness of your stories is something else I recognise right off. :-D