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.)

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[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

and lots of explicit sex.

I am happy to be branded with that assumption. ^_^ Yeah, the POV thing is something I do a lot, isn't it? I don't like pages and pages of italicized thought; that bugs me beyond all sanity. And first person isn't always what I want (I prefer 3rd as a rule), so, if the POV is tightly on that character--not merely limited to him but right in his head--I can tell you lots about the character's mood and thoughts without having to transcribe actual "But it's not like that, he thought. How can I convince him I'm sincere!" for pages and pages. Because people don't think in full sentences like that; it's jarring.