10 Ways You Know It Was Written By Me

[jtucktattoo]

I read this over on Fangs, Fur, and Fey. It seemed cool and interesting, so here's mine

Comments

[ejfrostuk]

This was fun to read. "Plus it gives me the freedom to write about monster truck driving vampires who live in trailer parks" had me really chortling. Thanks for giving me a laugh today. It was much needed. :)

Glad you like it.

[jtucktattoo]

Glad I could give you a chortle.

Re: Glad you like it.

[ejfrostuk]

It was also interesting to see your perspective. We have a lot of common ground -- 2 through 7 -- but there are some points where we wildly diverge, and it's interesting to see where. The guns thing particularly. There are almost no guns in either my urban fantasy or my scifi. None in my urban fantasy because there's lots of magic and I've never understood the point of guns when most of the characters can stop bullets with a spell. But, then, Harry Dresden is usually packing, so it's probably just me. None in my scifi because I figure we'll have developed better weapons over the next 100 years (which has been fun to think about from a world-building perspective). My scifi characters are usually armed, but as the phased-light weapon packing cyborg character says, "not in the conventional sense