Writing and style.

[foxmonkey]

I've wondered about this one a lot over the years. Today's question:

Style. Are there writers you can pick out by style alone? If so, what is it that you recognize? If you're a writer, is having a recognizable style important to you? Why or why not?

Comments

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

I think this has a lot to do with writers influencing each other and fandom merging into some characterization/style consensus.

Characterization/style consensus, absolutely! That's exactly what I'd been thinking about, that the trap of fanon characterization has certainly caught its fair share of victims. Not that the fic is bad, but...it's just kind of sad not to be able to tell who wrote what.