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

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Easy ways to tell if Amy wrote it?

1. Exquisite use of language, with exceptional attention to detail,
2. Somebody is squirming,
3. By at least part of the way through, the reader is squirming,
4. By the end of it the reader wonders if they're going to go to hell, and if it will be as much fun as what they've just read.

♥

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

attention to detail,

I'm hoping that means my boredom with describing places or physical appearances and such is compensated for by other, jucier details! Unless maybe you meant grammarian detail?

Squirm. Oh, one of my favorite verbs, when used in a smutty or about-to-be-smutty context. Mmm!

*hugs you*

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

:D

One of the distinctions of your writing is that you always give the perfect amount of information - sensory, emotional, physical, location - to totally immerse the reader in whatever you have happening.

And yes, your use of grammar, of language, of tone and dialogue, are always so precise and well balanced.

When I stop squirming (and looking over the my shoulder for the guy with the horns, a tail, and a contract for my soul) I always sit for a moment in silent awe, and just a leetle envy, for your consummate writing skills.

*hugs back bashfully*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*chases away the guy with the contract* Go away! She's no one's but her own! ^_^