Ten Ways...
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lls_mutantEveryone 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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
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 :)
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Date: 2006-01-19 11:17 pm (UTC)Like the list BTW. Very true, especially 8... it's one of the reasons why I like your work so much.
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Date: 2006-01-20 06:58 pm (UTC)I noticed the Brit-ness more in Deny Thy Father and earlier chapters of AIL. Somewhere along the line I got more conscious of it, so it's been improving. But I do still notice it every now and then. Being born and bred in upstate NY makes the Brit aspects difficult sometimes! (Although I can always tell when I've been talking to my next-door neighbor right before I've been writing.)
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Date: 2006-01-21 12:43 am (UTC)And the dangling off of the furniture is great. I wish I'd thought of it first, but you're right. That's vintage you. lol
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Date: 2006-01-21 12:45 am (UTC)