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Do you have a writing quirk?
Sakabelle:
This is sort of a weird question, but it's something I've always wondered. Do you have a stamp that you put on all or most of your stories? Just a little thing that you might include consistently in every world that you create? I guess sort of along the lines of how Josh Schwartz always has his characters eating yams and marshmallows at thanksgiving or JJ Abrams and his slusho, lol.
I know that I always personally have my characters stay in hotel room number 1508 - especially is some kind of drama is going to take place in the room. I also realized that I always unintentionall y have had major events take place in Boston.
Or am I the only one who does this? lol
mare:
It was brought to my attention that my characters quite often have scenes where they escape to or hide away in a bathroom lol
I do like alluding to things from my older stories in my newer ones. I took that from Stephen King lol
julilly:
Oh wow, I've never thought about this. I don't know if I do!
RokofAges75:
Hm... I don't do anything that intentional, like the hotel room 1508. Now I wish I did!
I do know that a lot of my stories contain references to Titanic, which is my favorite movie. I tend to refer to movies a lot in my writing.
I also like to include inside jokes and name minor characters after people, usually friends or readers. With all the medical drama I write, I hate having to come up with random names for medical personnel, so in Broken and BMS, I named most of the doctors and nurses after people who gave me feedback. I started Curtain Call in the middle of my Double Rainbow phase and named the first six nurses Dora (for double or double rainbow), Reyna (rain), Bo (bow), Allie (all), Thea (the), and Wei (way). In Secrets of the Heart, most of them are Beatles references.
My favorite form of passive aggressive revenge is to base characters on people who piss me off (usually in the fandom, but not on AC) and put them in unflattering roles. Broken and BMS, Curtain Call, and 00Carter all have some of those.
Sakabelle:
I love your inside jokes, Julie! Also, you Double Rainbow reference in Curtain Call is awesome. I love putting little themes like that in my writing. I'm trying to do more of that in my newer fics.
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