Fic Identity Meme

[rj_anderson]

This is a mega-cool idea for a meme, although like yahtzee63 (from whom I gacked it just now) I think I'm going to have a hard time answering it for anybody else. Still:

Pretend for a minute that the only contact you have ever had with me is through my fic. We've never exchanged LJ comments or emails, never hung out in chat or on IM, never talked on the phone or met each other at a convention, none of that stuff. The only thing you know about me is the kind of fic I write. Based on the way I write my characters, and the way they speak, think, and behave, what does that say to you about what kind of person I am, my attitudes and opinions about real-life issues?

And speaking of fic, I just finished the last chapter of "Galatea" today and it's off to the beta-readers, so I hope to have it up here in another couple of days. Yay!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

D&L sticks out most in my mind when I think of you, too, since it was the first thing of yours I'd ever read. Roughly in the order these thoughts occurred to me:

Definitely an adult, and female. Talented writer, with an appreciation for subtlety and grace in style. Funny! I love her sense of humor. Very creative, able to take existing material and make it her own. But she also pays attention to detail, and so doesn't write anything that makes little red "OOC" or "Huh?" flags pop up in my mind.

If not Christian, then at least conservative. Doesn't seem to have a problem with romantic age gaps...and strangely, she's making that not bother ME, either. Has realistic expectations of people, both in romantic situations and out of them. I love Maud--I've never met a heroine like her. Strong but patient, talented but meek. This is the way women *really* act, or at least how they *should* act.

After I met you in D&L, I found your blog and so got to see a little more of what you might be like in RL. But even just from your other fic (DW--which I never saw but you have singlehandedly made me love--and Alias, especially), I saw that you were even funnier than I first expected and had a deep appreciation for snark. You aren't afraid of putting your characters through uncomfortable circumstances--death, manipulation, disappointment, abuse--to make them more sympathetic or to improve them.

Just from your fic, the biggest impressions I got:

I wish I could read a whole novel of your writing, and I wish I could get to know you better as a person. :)

[(Anonymous)]

(One of these days, I won't need to edit my own posts...)

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[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Very kind. :)