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[personal profile] lowkey
So, I was having a chat with my good friend [personal profile] danchekker (who is now on DreamWidth, guys! You should all go friend her up!), and we started to talk about how we each always write "the same story."

So, I thought it be awesome if people turned a critical eye to their own writing, and in as humorous a way as possible, described their most overused tropes. Here are mine!



One person listens to another person tell a two-fold story about the past: a happy opening, with a shocking turn that hints at the innate unfairness and violence of the world. The speaker always delivers this speech while talking in a faraway voice and while not making eye contact. At a later point, this story is either literally or metaphorically important to events that transpire.

APPARENTLY THIS IS WHAT I THINK MEANINGFUL CONVERSATIONS ARE

BASICALLY, I WRITE LIKE LIGHTNING SPEAKS

ALL OF MY CONVERSATIONS ARE BETWEEN LIGHTNING AND HOPE, AND LIGHTNING IS SAYING "Lightning can't protect, it can only destroy."

FFFEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSS


Furthermore, all of my characters are constantly struggling with self-destructive tendencies ("aren't we all?", I justify to myself), and ALSO my most dramatic deaths have the dying cough up blood.

Lastly, I'm finding it a little difficult to find FF characters' voices in longer dialogues. Cause, uh, in the game they really don't talk in more than a few sentences at a time, nor do they have meaningful discussions about feelings that don't descend into platitudes. THIS IS WEIRD



And how that I've said all this, I can't unsee it. aaarrrrrrggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Date: 2011-08-02 12:48 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
Yeah, I have a few outliers.

I have too much variation, I guess. I tried to be vague enough to capture everything.

Maybe... people live lives and stuff happens and they're unhappy but they try and sometimes give up and there are other people around them who notice these things and sometimes they allow these people in. Sometimes they don't. And it goes on. Because life is just a thing and sometimes it rocks and sometimes it sucks, and sometimes you rage and sometimes you cry and sometimes you enjoy and it's all part of everything.

I think at this point, I may as well say: stuff happens and life occurs.

Date: 2011-08-02 12:55 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
I CAN'T HELP IT. EITHER I'M NOT SMART ENOUGH TO FIND THE PATTERN IN MY STORIES OR I AM TOO MUCH OF A FAILURE TO WRITE THE SAME SCENE.

MAYBE MY SCENE IS KICKASS WOMEN BEING KICKASS WHILE EVERYONE AROUND THEM IS LIKE WOAH LET'S HELP. BUT THAT DOESN'T EXPLAIN MY SLASH. OR WHEN THE WOMEN FALL APART. OR WHEN HOPE IS THE NARRATOR. OR EVERY OTHER STORY I'VE WRITTEN THAT'S NOT ABOUT. WHICH IS A LOT.

I AM A FAILURE.

Date: 2011-08-02 12:59 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Natasha Romanoff from Avengers (10)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
I AM SHAMED. DFKJDKFJDFKDK I MUST NOW HIDE MY FACE AND SIT IN A CORNER AND CRY. LOTS AND LOTS. BECAUSE I AM INCAPABLE OF BEING AWESOME.

Date: 2011-08-02 01:03 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
I'M CURRENTLY WRITING A BACCANO FIC ABOUT A GIRL WHO IS LEARNING TO CRY AND A DUDE WHO IS TRYING NOT TO FEEL HER FEELINGS AND TRYING TO COMFORT HER AT THE SAME TIME.

Date: 2011-08-02 01:04 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
IS THAT ENOUGH PAIN AND BETTERMENT FOR YOU? XD XD XD

Date: 2011-08-02 01:13 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
You should! It is fantastic! And the bestest ever! ♥

Date: 2011-08-02 01:00 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
Heh, yeah. :D

(But I'm still trying to find that scene I write all the time. Because I'm still struggling to come up with anything. XD)

Date: 2011-08-02 01:03 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
Truth. I think People suffer is the meaning of all my stories. I'm going to leave it at that.

Date: 2011-08-02 01:11 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
FEELINGS MAKE YOU FEEL.

Date: 2011-08-02 01:14 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
XD Totally.

And Lightning has the emotional capacity of a teaspoon and this hurts Hope's feeeeliiings

Date: 2011-08-02 01:43 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
Ehehe, Lightning and Snow have such an interesting dynamic. :D

Date: 2011-08-02 01:44 am (UTC)
mako_lies: Lebreau (Default)
From: [personal profile] mako_lies
Ahaha ♥ That's kind of adorkable.

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Date: 2011-08-02 01:15 am (UTC)
nal_rene: Chibi Snow laying in snow. (10)
From: [personal profile] nal_rene
FEELINGS!