Things You’ve Noticed In Your Writing

i always have a kind of verbal twitch. it was 'slightly', but now it seems to be 'though'. i literally have to ctrl + f and pick the 'thoughs' out when i've finished, it's getting a little crazy.

I've been writing more sexually charged pieces.

ghosthorse:

I've been writing more sexually charged pieces.

Same here. It may just be the pairing I write, but my stories are getting less and less romantic and more and more smutty.

I've been writing a lot of war stories lately.

Siriano;:

Same here. It may just be the pairing I write, but my stories are getting less and less romantic and more and more smutty.

Same. And it gets worse as I get older, too. x]

Generally, whenever I'm writing a songfic, the song tends to make me think of a pre-existing pairing that I've either written before or have had in my head as opposed to creating new characters or a new pairing that fits the song exactly, if that makes any sense

/mind of a fanfiction writer

I can't do modern day. I have to have an exact year and torture myself with getting little details exactly right.

I haven't written a sex scene that was consensual/not regretted

Siriano;:

I can't do modern day. I have to have an exact year and torture myself with getting little details exactly right.

I do this, too, even in my alternate history (and currently un-posted) story--because you have to know the facts to tweak them.
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I use too many commas. When I edit a chapter I sometimes think, Where did all these commas come from?

I've started to write a lot of moment-in-time fics.

I create one main metaphor and let it evolve throughout the entire story and I also use an additional, not as prominent one. Pretend Just Pretend and What Little We Know are like that. And my latest story (which is not online) is the same way.

I repeat vocabulary throughout my chapters such as 'mere' and 'asks', and I always end my chapter with a single sentence.

Most of my pieces are either rated G or NC-17, squeaky clean or incredibly filthy. There isn't a lot of in-between for me

I have just noticed that I am older than 47.3% of my characters (I did the math; I was curious). I'm kind of shocked to the bone by this, especially since I created some of them when I was in grade school and never thought I'd be older than them...they just seemed eternally older than me and it's weird to realize that I've surpassed them in age. Maybe not wisdom, but years. Being older than David from Brendan Dude is freaky as crap since I always pictured him as some kind of old guy trapped in a teenager's body (though I'm currently only outliving him by a few months). Being older than Adam from Spin was a definite shock, haha. I don't really know why.

I use loads of adverbs. Sometimes that's a good thing, but sometimes it disrupts the flow of the writing and makes things feel too 'bulky.'

Whenever I'm writing in first person (which is most of the time), I often adopt a sort of dry, sarcastic narrative style. I do it with some characters more than others, but it would seem that all my main characters have quite a sarcastic tone at some points in the story, even if it doesn't suit them.

I like alliteration, which is something I know consciously, but it ends up a lot in my writing even when I'm not consciously attempting to create the effect, and often to the extent that certain sections of text are pretty much tongue twisters.

I know that there are probably more things that I will notice later, but one thing I've noticed (I think it happened in only one story) is that I had sort of "big" things happen when it was raining out. Example - The couple broke up. The girl ran off into the storm and ended up getting raped and killed by the guy's ex lover. And then when they caught the killer, it was raining.

Lately I've noticed that I'll often have a character (almost always the main character(s)) who is extremely dysfunctional or awful, and they do all this horrible shit and basically act abhorrently for a looong time, then all these things happen to make them gradually realize what a terrible human being they are and they fight so damn hard to turn their life around and rebuild all the bridges they burned, and they start to succeed and it seems like they're going to get a happy ending but then their past ends up biting them in the ass anyway and they end up worse off than they ever were before.

/run-on sentence like whoa

Yeah, I don't even know, man. :|

Also, I do a lottt of repetition, almost always in groups of three or five.

I drag out plots which makes my stories so long, so long in fact that I never want to finish them because I get bored and then delete them. It's a complicated process, really.

One thing I've noticed from my first stories in English - I was probably 14 when I started venturing in writing in my third language - is that my English is sooooo much better now. I used to write very simple sentences like She had green eyes. now I get a little more excited, mostly because I have a better control over vocabulary and grammar, so I dare being more descriptive. In my mother tongue, however - Portuguese - I've always had a thing for poetic descriptions, I was just lacking the tools to be the same way with the English language. In my stories overall, I noticed an evolution of the characters as well. If, in the beginning, the female character was always, well me, now I've developed a sense of creating and deattaching myself from the story. I also like to have some element of violence in my stories, I don't like it when everything's too perfect and smelling like roses. My first story in English on this site was co-written by a friend and it's about a girl getting bloody revenge on her boyfriend. Sort of teeny, but it's fun. There's always something ironic and a note of dark humor to my stories.