Meme

[donutsweeper]

Meme, shamelessly stolen from everyone...

What would you say are the trademarks of my writing? What themes or quirks or turns of phrase have you noticed? What is it that makes a story by me -- well, a story by me?

Comments

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

You know, that's a good point. Worth noting, too, something that a writer friend of mine told me, recently, and I've seen in some of those 'writing inspirational' things.

Writing is not editing.
Editing is not writing.

I'm a *crap* editor. I'm learning to let that go and not carry it over into saying I'm a crap *writer*, because the mechanics are something I have to pay attention to/work at.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

and a beta can help with the editing issues. If the writing's crap, even the best beta in the world won't be able to help.

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Editing is a mystery to me. I just... don't do it. What first comes out of my head is pretty much what gets posted up.

I've done beta work before, but I don't make a habit of it... actually, I've done it for you, haven't I? (And for some reason that reminds me I was going to pester you to write femslash). Eh, I'm rambling now. But editing... It's an alien world.

[fandom-me.livejournal.com]

You have beta'd for me before, and you did a good job. I can't do it at all. Oh, story and characterization I ca prod, but I'm wary of telling someone what's wrong with either of those, so. Yeah, completely alien world.

I'm trying, slowly, to start doing some shorter stuff that hasn't been beta'd to hell and back. That makes me a bit of a hypocrite, but it's also making writing fun for me again.

...>.> Will do. (Femeslash)