Blind_go guessing yadda yadda yadda
Sep. 18th, 2006 04:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flonnebonneSo I'm making my way through the fics that were submitted to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
blind_go, and the going is pretty slow because I don't want to go blind from all the shiny awesomeness I'm reading. Seriously, what were all of you people on? That is some damn fine writing over there.
But trying to guess who wrote what is making my head hurt.
I have a notepad file where I'm recording my guesses and observations, except that not a lot of guessing or observing is going on. It's full of stuff like, "such and such fic uses present tense and AND ROCKS MY WORLD and I kind of think it might be so-and-so blah I dunno who it is." I honestly suck at identifying writing styles, especially at the micro-level. Like looking at commas and spelling and tedious stuff like that. Usually I just go with my gut feeling, especially when I'm too lazy to look closer.
In conclusion, when I win the prize for least number of correct guesses, I can say I told you so.
Also, if you participated in blind_go it is obligatory that you make at least five aftermath posts (five...go...you know). Anyone who doesn't do so will go blind.
blind_go, and the going is pretty slow because I don't want to go blind from all the shiny awesomeness I'm reading. Seriously, what were all of you people on? That is some damn fine writing over there.But trying to guess who wrote what is making my head hurt.
I have a notepad file where I'm recording my guesses and observations, except that not a lot of guessing or observing is going on. It's full of stuff like, "such and such fic uses present tense and AND ROCKS MY WORLD and I kind of think it might be so-and-so blah I dunno who it is." I honestly suck at identifying writing styles, especially at the micro-level. Like looking at commas and spelling and tedious stuff like that. Usually I just go with my gut feeling, especially when I'm too lazy to look closer.
In conclusion, when I win the prize for least number of correct guesses, I can say I told you so.
Also, if you participated in blind_go it is obligatory that you make at least five aftermath posts (five...go...you know). Anyone who doesn't do so will go blind.
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Date: 2006-09-18 08:23 pm (UTC)2. ahahaah, you know, um. present tense is basically my factory reset mode. it is freakishly difficult for me to write past tense. and then i read meta where people are like, "i can't read present tense it's just too weird!" and i feel suddenly bad. :(
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Date: 2006-09-19 09:55 am (UTC)I've always been surprised when people say they're weirded out by reading a fic in any tense. The past tense is definitely my factory reset mode, but present is fine too and even less common stuff like second person doesn't bother me. What does bother me, though, is poetry. I can't bloody read poetry. I am a sad, sad English major.