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[fahye]

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I want to do a creative/meta meme but there is nothing going around, and it's not like I have that much fic to be asked about*. But ask me writing questions anyway?

*I had to remove that part, it is a dirty dirty lie where I am concerned.

'Writing questions' can mean pretty much anything you want it to mean, my sweets. I have a lot of work to do tonight and I'm going to need something to do in my breaks.

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[areyoumymemmy.livejournal.com]

Do you ever think consciously about your own style of writing, or is it something that just sort of happened?

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Hmm. THIS IS HARD. There have been a few periods in my life where I have made a very deliberate, furious effort to improve my writing in a particular direction, usually because of being impressed by someone or something. Actually, one of these was a deliberate effort to improve my RP, which bled over into my prose remarkably.

These days I think about it at the beginning of any given story, because I have a few different 'settings'; very lyrical, very clinical, plot-and-dialogue-with-occasional-humorous-or-metaphorical-bits, and what I suppose is my general style (a more natural-feeling combination of everything). I probably don't alter my style to suit a character's voice as much as I should, sometimes, but usually me expressing things the way I want them to be expressed is more important than worrying about if a person would have that word in their vocabulary.

Is that the kind of answer you were looking for?