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Top 10 Ways to tell you’re reading an Arianna story:
1. If it’s one of the earlier stories, Blair will end up near death and in the hospital. (Yeah, I know it’s cliché, but it’s still the easiest way to make Jim crack and reveal his feelings).
2. Far too many ellipses, dashes and run-on sentences (even after StarWatcher has sternly cleaned up the majority of these personal writing quirks – so just imagine how many there are in the first draft, lol! What? You don’t want to imagine – uh huh, I know, it’s painful and tosses you right out of the story, but how else does one write ‘babbling’ or hesitant uncertainty?)
3. There’s a good chance it’s yet another resolution to TSbyBS, or at least an attempt to explain the last season, if not the whole series.
4. It’s probably gen, but not necessarily, lol, because I like to focus on their unique friendship.
5. The characters swallow, clench their jaws (Jim, anyway) and nod or shake their heads far too much, except when raking fingers through hair (Blair) or massaging the back of his neck (Jim).
6. It’s probably dripping with angst. (Er … did I hear someone mutter ‘melodrama’?) And if not outright weeping, there’s a lot of burning and stinging and tear-glazed eyes happening … and even more swallowing of lumps in throats.
7. It’s long. Often very long!
8. There’s a probability that it will be either a case story or a missing scene/epilogue story as I attempt to link most of my stories to canon, unless it’s an AU, lol, and even then the odds are the story started from a canon base (uh, based upon my interpretation of canon, ie Blair is Jim’s Guide, they are meant to be together, nothing happens randomly in the Universe).
9. If it’s one of the later stories, either or both Jim and Blair might well end up in the hospital. (What can I say? I like to hurt them … but I always make them better again. ::grin::)
10. I think all but one story has a happy ending (Gone Fishing), and it’s always a completed story when posted except for one cliffhanger (Trick or Treat).
1. If it’s one of the earlier stories, Blair will end up near death and in the hospital. (Yeah, I know it’s cliché, but it’s still the easiest way to make Jim crack and reveal his feelings).
2. Far too many ellipses, dashes and run-on sentences (even after StarWatcher has sternly cleaned up the majority of these personal writing quirks – so just imagine how many there are in the first draft, lol! What? You don’t want to imagine – uh huh, I know, it’s painful and tosses you right out of the story, but how else does one write ‘babbling’ or hesitant uncertainty?)
3. There’s a good chance it’s yet another resolution to TSbyBS, or at least an attempt to explain the last season, if not the whole series.
4. It’s probably gen, but not necessarily, lol, because I like to focus on their unique friendship.
5. The characters swallow, clench their jaws (Jim, anyway) and nod or shake their heads far too much, except when raking fingers through hair (Blair) or massaging the back of his neck (Jim).
6. It’s probably dripping with angst. (Er … did I hear someone mutter ‘melodrama’?) And if not outright weeping, there’s a lot of burning and stinging and tear-glazed eyes happening … and even more swallowing of lumps in throats.
7. It’s long. Often very long!
8. There’s a probability that it will be either a case story or a missing scene/epilogue story as I attempt to link most of my stories to canon, unless it’s an AU, lol, and even then the odds are the story started from a canon base (uh, based upon my interpretation of canon, ie Blair is Jim’s Guide, they are meant to be together, nothing happens randomly in the Universe).
9. If it’s one of the later stories, either or both Jim and Blair might well end up in the hospital. (What can I say? I like to hurt them … but I always make them better again. ::grin::)
10. I think all but one story has a happy ending (Gone Fishing), and it’s always a completed story when posted except for one cliffhanger (Trick or Treat).