Bwahahaha! Yeah, Right!

Tamara pointed me at this quiz, but it looked familiar enough that I was quite sure I'd already taken it and just hadn't bothered posting my result here for some reason. For which she "tsked" at me, because, you know, I don't post nearly enough quiz results here. Anyway, I went back and took another look at it, and it isn't quite the one I remember taking, after all. So, here ya go, Tamara:


You're a plotter, someone who carefully crafts an
intriguing plot to keep the reader hooked from
one scene to the next. You thrive on knowing
exactly where your story is going, and what's
going to happen along the way. Although you
might veer off your original plan for the
story, mostly you stick to your carefully
planned outline. You're a born storyteller who
enjoys sharing your stories with others.


What Kind of a Writer Are You?
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And may I just laugh uproariously at that result? I mean, plot? Me?! I can't write plot to save my life. Or, no, OK, I admit, I could write plot to save my life, but under less extreme circumstances, it really tends not to happen.

I think a big part of the problem here is that the quiz was based on majorly unfounded assumptions. Like, you know, the fact that if you're writing, you must be writing something with a plot. The question that asks you whether you know what the plot is going to be going in doesn't have a "Huh? Plot? What is this thing of which you speak?" option, so I'm pretty much left behind as far as categorizations go, right there.

I said a couple of posts ago that I like to think I have good writing skills (not that they're always in evidence on this blog), but that I do not have the makings of a novelist. This is precisely what I meant. You want a one-page vignette, you come and see me, and I might be able to do somethin' for ya. (Especially if you want one featuring Blake's 7 or Farscape characters, because I know I can write those.) You want a plot, you are most decisively on your own.

Of course, if you want long, rambling, pointless blog entries, I got those in great abundance...