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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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[fahye.livejournal.com]

See, even before I ever talked to either of them I was aware, vaguely, of the fact that they were people who took over in the RP...but by the time I came to actually get to know them, that seemed SO long ago that it never really entered my mind. I did know. But it was buried pretty deep.

I ellipse a lot less than I used to, I use dashes and semicolons and colons a lot MORE than I used to and I think I'm a bit addicted. I love brackets (sorry, parentheses) but try not to overuse them. I will only use ampersands if I'm writing poetry ot very, very stylised prose.

I don't know if she has actually been a huge influence on my writing per se, but she showed me that it was possible to be screamingly funny AND to flesh out characters fully and have deep themes/dark plots/etc. in the same story. I will never be as funny as her but damn, I wish I could be.

[nextian.livejournal.com]

I love () so much but I tend to edit most of them out -- but then I always miss one. It was pretty much a commonplace in my writing workshops to get "Emma, you can't just have one set of parentheses" and then I would cry.

Hahah, on her goodbye post I sent her this long, sad, maudlin comment that was basically like "You invented subtext in my head," because: YES what you said.