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[fahye]

I do not know where this meme comes from, Ji found it, but I think it's great:

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach.
— Alfred Hitchcock

When I write a story, what do you immediately look for?

Comments

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

1. Intelligent, precise, clinical narration.
2. Rare, the uniquely pair-bonded with each other.
2a. The exception: profoundly fucked-up people whose issues are miraculously totally complementary.
3. Food as an intense sensual pleasure.
4. Unusual attention to details of cosmetics and wardrobe.
5. And of course: science.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

MEDICINE.

Oh, and at least one character who has difficulty recognising or expressing their feelings.

[weatherfront.livejournal.com]

A narrative brain that spins at the speed of RIDILOUS RPM

[soda-and-capes.livejournal.com]

Recurring themes. Some sort of thematic metaphor or five. Science. Very subtle twists. Language play.

[littledust.livejournal.com]

THEEEEEMES. The meta you don't write, except you do. SCIENCE. Arresting imagery. Perfect word choices.

[ariastar.livejournal.com]

SCIENCE. Twisty clever tricks of phrase, and language as delicious pornography.

[sour-idealist.livejournal.com]

Recurring motifs, images, metaphors. A bit towards the end where it all falls into place - events, emotions, themes, something coming together. Very specific figurative language. Intriguing turns of phrase. Science/medicine presented in an almost mystic way. Complicated and precise vocabulary. Very frequently, too many layers to process entirely on one reading.

[genarti]

Hands. Characters who think in metaphors of math and science and medicine. Relationships on the edge between healthy and unhealthy, if they don't tip right over into frank (but compelling!) unhealthiness. Metaphors that recur, and recur, and then subvert themselves into something encapsulatingly perfect.

[anr]

Something very well written. :)