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eisen put up an id/writing meme! And, well, it does sound like fun, doesn't it? Goodness knows I think I have a fairly good handle on say, C.J. Cherryh's id by now. Or Lloyd Alexander. (Mr. Alexander liked clever, trickster type women, amiable ruthless manipulative bastards, naive narrators, and glitter. Lots of glitter. Also cats, he was a big fan of cats. They turn up almost as frequently as the amiable confidence artist mentors who really like flash and sequins and satin and turn out to have hearts of gold and steel backbones and a general allergy to responsiblity.)

Plenty of writers talk about "showing their id", but our id is a vital and unavoidable part of the fic-writing experience - it shows itself in everything we write, whether we know it or not! The id is an awesome thing. Plenty of our favorite fics would never have existed without it. But there's always that pesky question a writer gets to asking (or is that just me?): am I getting my ideas across clearly? How much of my id is showing up when I mean it to, and am I showing off parts of my id I didn't realize I had? It's important to know these things! Conscious id-identification can only improve one's ability to evoke what makes that particular idea so enjoyable for us!

So, we come before you, oh sages of the internet, with a question: what parts of our id do you see? We really want to know! (Don't be scared. We'll only bite you if you want it!)

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