Ten Ways...
Jan. 19th, 2006 05:32 pmEveryone else is doing it, and it looks like fun! So...
Ten Ways to Tell You're Reading a Story By Lissa
1.) A love affair with hyphens. But I've gotten better with them! Really!
2.) Eye color? What eye color? After ODing on stating eye color in my previous fandom, I almost go out of my way to avoid it now.
3.) Someone abuses the furniture. If there is a teenaged boy and a couch in the same story, he's guaranteed to be hanging upside down off of it.
4.) You want plot? I got plot. I've got too much plot. And I can work with anything. JKR tosses Remus into a den of rabid weasels and makes Sirius eat a banana cream pie while he laughs? I can still work it in. HA!
5.) Sex? Not much of it. Especially not in detail.
(Um, unless
nassima's drawn something.)
6.) Erm, the lack of that "beta-ed by..." line. I know, I know.
7.) It's LONG.
8.) Minimal setting and description, maximum emotional explanation. Sometimes a little too little of the first, and sometimes a little too much of the second.
9.) The Brit-pickers would have a field day. (Although I've been improving there as well.)
10.) It can usually be set in the Accidentally In Love universe. Even if it is Neville gen. (Or Flitwick-Nott-Bryce WWII stories.)
That was fun :)
Ten Ways to Tell You're Reading a Story By Lissa
1.) A love affair with hyphens. But I've gotten better with them! Really!
2.) Eye color? What eye color? After ODing on stating eye color in my previous fandom, I almost go out of my way to avoid it now.
3.) Someone abuses the furniture. If there is a teenaged boy and a couch in the same story, he's guaranteed to be hanging upside down off of it.
4.) You want plot? I got plot. I've got too much plot. And I can work with anything. JKR tosses Remus into a den of rabid weasels and makes Sirius eat a banana cream pie while he laughs? I can still work it in. HA!
5.) Sex? Not much of it. Especially not in detail.
(Um, unless
6.) Erm, the lack of that "beta-ed by..." line. I know, I know.
7.) It's LONG.
8.) Minimal setting and description, maximum emotional explanation. Sometimes a little too little of the first, and sometimes a little too much of the second.
9.) The Brit-pickers would have a field day. (Although I've been improving there as well.)
10.) It can usually be set in the Accidentally In Love universe. Even if it is Neville gen. (Or Flitwick-Nott-Bryce WWII stories.)
That was fun :)