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[schmerica]

Along the lines of two steps forward, three steps back, I want you to tell me:

1) One thing as a writer you think I do well

2) Two things as a writer you think need to work on

3) Your favorite thing I've written, and your least favorite

I can't resist copying musesfool in all her memes. I changed this one, though, just because it seemed like an awful lot of work the original way. I doubt many people will respond, but I think coming up with one and two things is a lot more likely than two and three. Even though, you know, the first sentence doesn't actually make sense now.

Comments

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

1) You capture emotion in an almost short-hand way, by showing, never telling. This is an incredibly difficult thing to do, and you do it masterfully.

2) The only thing I think you need to work on is a tendency to excessive snark sometimes, but for the life of me I can't think of an example right now. So forget it. You're perfect.

3) My favorite thing you've written? A tossup between "The Outline of a Circle" and "A is for Apple." But I've liked everything you've written, in one way or another, except

4) Your response post parodying kelliem's rant on Ray smoking. I know it was friends locked, and many found it funny, but I actually thought it was mean. But I still love you, and god knows I love your talent.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yay, thank you for filling this out!

The only thing I think you need to work on is a tendency to excessive snark sometimes, but for the life of me I can't think of an example right now.

Huh, you know, that's really fascinating, because it never would have occurred to me -- I think, actually, in my head I assume my default setting is actually a sort of over-the-top sweetness, and I have to work to control it. I wonder if there's some sort of hypercorrection thing happening?

As for 4 -- well, I didn't tend that to be personal; it wasn't about kellie's specific rant as much as me finding the whole conversation that came up to be very amusing. I didn't intend it to be nasty, either, but I can see how it could have come across that way. Obviously, everybody finds different things funny.