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minxyWays you know you're reading one of Minxes stories (seen most recently on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
saffronhouse's LJ):
1. There is an existential crisis, or the lead character otherwise Comes To A Realization. This is also known as angst, with a resolution.
2. Love = someone you can talk to + lust + insecurity that they won't want you back. Oh, the irony.
3. There is only a 60% chance of slash in a starring role.
4. There will be dialog in which the reader is not told who is speaking, or how. You have to guess.
5. Characters are lonely, possibly isolated. At least at the beginning.
6. There is no 'meant to be,' there are choices and decisions and options. And angst.
7. Sometimes, there is no sex. But sometimes, there really really is.
8. Sometimes, there is no plot. Sometimes there is a hint of a plot, and sometimes (at least in my head) there is half a plot. But there's always angst, even in the total absence of plot.
9. Expect characters to meet each others eyes, to smile genuinely or otherwise, to kiss or otherwise have an oral fixation, and to play with each other's hands. Unless they don't.
10. Expect characters to fall for a completely different partner in the next fic. That's how it is. What?
And, for a little more self-indulgence, lines from my WIPs:
If this is Thursday, it must be Belgium.
"Be gentle, but clear; understanding and absolute about what can and can’t be done, because if you give them hope, they will take nothing else."
Teal’c disliked telephones; if one could not at least see the person one was talking to, it was difficult to believe that the slightly metallic voice in ones ear was a living breathing being.
“Um, Sam, have you been smoking something that you shouldn’t, as an Air Force officer, have been smoking?”
That night, Jack knew it was over.
Whatever, I don’t whine. I am a tough, hard as nails, take no prisoners beyotch. And Dr. ‘I’m not a shrink but I play one on the base’ Jackson says if I just repeat that to myself enough it will be true. When he’s not telling me that I whine, that is. Quack.
And SG-1 was his team. He never fled their company.
saffronhouse's LJ):1. There is an existential crisis, or the lead character otherwise Comes To A Realization. This is also known as angst, with a resolution.
2. Love = someone you can talk to + lust + insecurity that they won't want you back. Oh, the irony.
3. There is only a 60% chance of slash in a starring role.
4. There will be dialog in which the reader is not told who is speaking, or how. You have to guess.
5. Characters are lonely, possibly isolated. At least at the beginning.
6. There is no 'meant to be,' there are choices and decisions and options. And angst.
7. Sometimes, there is no sex. But sometimes, there really really is.
8. Sometimes, there is no plot. Sometimes there is a hint of a plot, and sometimes (at least in my head) there is half a plot. But there's always angst, even in the total absence of plot.
9. Expect characters to meet each others eyes, to smile genuinely or otherwise, to kiss or otherwise have an oral fixation, and to play with each other's hands. Unless they don't.
10. Expect characters to fall for a completely different partner in the next fic. That's how it is. What?
And, for a little more self-indulgence, lines from my WIPs:
If this is Thursday, it must be Belgium.
"Be gentle, but clear; understanding and absolute about what can and can’t be done, because if you give them hope, they will take nothing else."
Teal’c disliked telephones; if one could not at least see the person one was talking to, it was difficult to believe that the slightly metallic voice in ones ear was a living breathing being.
“Um, Sam, have you been smoking something that you shouldn’t, as an Air Force officer, have been smoking?”
That night, Jack knew it was over.
Whatever, I don’t whine. I am a tough, hard as nails, take no prisoners beyotch. And Dr. ‘I’m not a shrink but I play one on the base’ Jackson says if I just repeat that to myself enough it will be true. When he’s not telling me that I whine, that is. Quack.
And SG-1 was his team. He never fled their company.
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Date: 2006-01-23 09:11 pm (UTC)So, your saying that your fic has angst, and other stuff, unless it doesn't, but it will always have angst. ;)
It's haaaaard, isn't it, to anatomize? My list was all about style, because I'm too chicken to look at content. It's interesting how some people used content as their 10 things and others didn't. I don't know what to make of that. *puts it into the abyss of thinkiness*
And your WIPlines intrigue me. Especially the one in which Daniel is called a quack. That may be my current favourite one-word sentence. :)
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Date: 2006-01-23 10:35 pm (UTC)Exactly. It is what it is, except when it's not. Actually, I was reading your list and thinking that I just don't have the same vocabulary for describing style. And I could totally do a meme about what I DON'T do in fics, because that would help explain a lot. For example, I don't like rehashing the same psychological head space over and over again, and since motivation and change and psychological complexity are not physical, I use adventure and sexuality and action and inaction and risk to explore all of it. Choices. Which means I've written gen, slash, het, threesomes, poly, UST, unrequited love, lack of interest in love, science, action, medicine... all of which come back around to angst. With an arc, because I need that change.
And your WIPlines intrigue me. Especially the one in which Daniel is called a quack. That may be my current favourite one-word sentence.
lol. You are welcome to adopt it and pet it and feed and call it George. It's from a fic that I have a character and voice for, but no plot and no where to take it. It's been a WIP forEVER.
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Date: 2006-01-23 09:42 pm (UTC)Dangit, now I have to do the "10 ways you know you're reading my fic" thing, too. *thinky*
This is so much fun! I love reading these. ...and I clearly used ALL my Deep Thought up in Philosophy today. Huh. *g*
*is happy feather-head*
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Date: 2006-01-23 10:38 pm (UTC)'Daniel is a quack' story is Sam POV with absolutely no plot. None.
*pets your feather-head* You're so soft and fluffy!
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Date: 2006-01-24 12:54 pm (UTC)Though the lines from WIPs I will do... once I'm up to date with my reviews (three more to do!) and my TV (oy vey!);)
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Date: 2006-01-24 06:28 pm (UTC)The 10 things meme is interesting. I like doing different things with each of my fics, so it's nice to see what I have and haven't been able to do differently. Up next, a musical farce?