TnT: writing styles personified
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Today's TnT is brought to you by a niggling memory of somethingazuire said once on a different writing community - something about her writing style being (at the time) personified by a Victorian gentleman, complete with top hat and cane, who can turn himself into objects when the need arises.
My own writing style is more of a young child in his first candy shop, dashing about to all the different sorts of sweets, unable to choose one as favourite for very long.
How would you personify your own writing style?
alexseanchai and clare_dragonfly! Everybody should gear up to challenge them incontest 51 - entries due Thursday.Today's TnT is brought to you by a niggling memory of something
azuire said once on a different writing community - something about her writing style being (at the time) personified by a Victorian gentleman, complete with top hat and cane, who can turn himself into objects when the need arises.My own writing style is more of a young child in his first candy shop, dashing about to all the different sorts of sweets, unable to choose one as favourite for very long.
How would you personify your own writing style?
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Date: 2012-05-31 03:06 am (UTC)1. The Engineer - notes things extremely carefully, trying to write the exact actions with no associated emotion or consideration for the reasons. 3rd person limited narrator, basically (usually). When I RP, I tend to do this, because I think it simulates real interactions better. Emotions can be misread, and that doesn't happen when you say "Bob sighed angrily" as opposed to "Bob sighed loudly, furrowing his brow." It makes things more interesting.
That said, it's really annoying to read for long.
2. The Dreamer - OH MY GOD I CAN'T STOP THINKING. This one describes things and contemplates everyone's reasoning. Wondering about things more than doing. A lot more worrying about the why (and how) than the what, when, or where.
I think it would be fun to write an entire novel in this persona. She'd never describe the actions, just the reasoning. I do enjoy reading this, but I get frustrated when I write it (I feel like I'm being boring).
3. The Child - My inner 10-year-old, just goin' to town. OH MAN LET'S PUT SOME UNICORNS IN HERE YES.
Yeah, they're all basically extreme-ified aspects of my personality.