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My head is like one of those 'found object' sculptures, where a bunch of mismatched broken-off bits of different types of pain that were lying in an alley have been semi-randomly welded together. (That image came to me at about 3:00 yesterday morning, right before I gave in and took the Nyquil. The metaphor that came to me after I took the Nyquil owed a lot more, aesthetically, to the climactic scene from "Raiders of the Lost Ark.")
The changes to the default lj urls are really bloody annoying. Thank you, IE users, for making things that much more annoying for the rest of us.
Ah, Snopes feed, you warm the cockles of my heart, you do.
And, since everybody else is doing it,
Ten ways of knowing that I wrote this fic:
1.) My characters do a lot of *looking* (gazing, glaring, glancing, staring ...). Also rolling their eyes and raising their eyebrows, leavened with the occasional smirk or moment of silence. That's about the range of emotional expression, right there.
2.) There will be allusions to things that nobody but me actually remembers. And possibly crossovers with things that nobody but me has actually read.
3.) My stories are not so much an iceberg with 95% hidden underwater (which implies depth) as jigsaw puzzles with half the pieces missing. Somehow, I expect my readers to want to fill in the gaps for me.
4.) I tend to go for too-clever metaphors and extended symbolism - can you tell? Usually, you can figure out the underlying theme of the story by thinking about the title *way* too hard.
5.) If my characters are talking, they'll be snarking. If they're snarking, they'll be loading it with double entendres. I have about three corny off-color jokes that I re-use in every story.
6.) If there's sex or romance, it will be non-explicit. Also, the people involved will be thinking about other people the whole time.
7.) I could go on; but the main characteristic? Is that I stop writing before I actually get to the end, and then just sort of leave it there.
The changes to the default lj urls are really bloody annoying. Thank you, IE users, for making things that much more annoying for the rest of us.
Ah, Snopes feed, you warm the cockles of my heart, you do.
And, since everybody else is doing it,
Ten ways of knowing that I wrote this fic:
1.) My characters do a lot of *looking* (gazing, glaring, glancing, staring ...). Also rolling their eyes and raising their eyebrows, leavened with the occasional smirk or moment of silence. That's about the range of emotional expression, right there.
2.) There will be allusions to things that nobody but me actually remembers. And possibly crossovers with things that nobody but me has actually read.
3.) My stories are not so much an iceberg with 95% hidden underwater (which implies depth) as jigsaw puzzles with half the pieces missing. Somehow, I expect my readers to want to fill in the gaps for me.
4.) I tend to go for too-clever metaphors and extended symbolism - can you tell? Usually, you can figure out the underlying theme of the story by thinking about the title *way* too hard.
5.) If my characters are talking, they'll be snarking. If they're snarking, they'll be loading it with double entendres. I have about three corny off-color jokes that I re-use in every story.
6.) If there's sex or romance, it will be non-explicit. Also, the people involved will be thinking about other people the whole time.
7.) I could go on; but the main characteristic? Is that I stop writing before I actually get to the end, and then just sort of leave it there.
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Okay, curse you trend-following *Firefox* people for making it that much more annoying for the rest of us.
*pats her happy Opera*
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And I'm so not doing a 10 things meme, as I've written about 1.25 fics, ever (and only the .25 was any good). XD
Nyquil will do that to visions. *nod*
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