Ganked from Canis_takahari

[luciazephyr]

This actually looked pretty interesting and I've been thinking of my Author Appeals and Signature Style a lot lately.

six ways you can tell you're reading a fic by luciazephyr

1. The title is from a song and is often in lowercase. I like the look of it and actively dislike the rules of what words are capitalized in titles, so I lowercase everything partly to avoid that altogether.



2. Reference Overdosed. I will flanderize Fitz Kreiner's reading habits so he will casually drop references to Vonnegut while reading Danielewski. If the character I'm writing is even hinted at being pop cultured, I will exploit that mercilessly.



3. I reference Greek Mythology in everything. Everything. To date, off the top of my head, I know I've written things that mention Aeolus, Astraeus, Artemis, Athena, Icarus, Hestia, Hades, Persephone, Ganymede, Aoide, Orpheus, and probably even more. My penname is Zephyrus for a reason.



4. I overuse a particular sentence structure. "[character speaking]," [they said as they did this], [then more description]. Comma, comma, period.



5. I write in chunks, in "scenes." This goes back to the fact I've grown up in fandom and because of that I write a certain way. I started by writing short fics and Five Ways format. Now that I'm getting into longer (MUCH LONGER, christ, do not ask me how long the Dresdenfic is going to be, I don't even want to think about it) works, I still carry that format a little.



6. I cannot write in omniscient third person. I need to keep my writing close to the inside of the POV character's mind. How they observe and think about the world is even more important than the world itself to me.

Comments

[sarken]

I do four a lot, too, and I'm trying to break myself of the habit, or at least change "as" to "while" from time to time. It's not working very well.

[thene]

#5 is me, too. I am kinda resigned to it being the way I am, at least for now. I don't think it's a crime so much as a matter of style; god knows there are writers who let scenes drag on way too long, but I do kinda worry about it sometimes.