Can you recognise a writing style?

[tenaya]

A friend reccommended a SG1 writer, by the name of Eideann.
http://www.area52hkh.net/author.php?name=Eideann

The stories are long and I've been devoring them but after a while I reminded myself of how I felt about a pro writer who does mysteries out of England. Jo Bannister. I started reading her when some SG folks said she was writing a Daniel avatar, by the name of Daniel Hood. I have a love/hate relationship with those books. I buy them ($$$ from Amazon UK) She has an occasional very odd word choice, tends to make her Daniel very ethical, always right and terribly broken. She has an odd way of delving into details, and also of throwing some rude language into the vocabulary for shock value. I also read for hours, unable to put the stories down, and then wonder why I'm doing it.

So, those that have read the Daniel Hood stories, do you think Eideann is Jo Bannister?

Comments

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

I only read one Jo Bannister book because of the HC folks recs, and I was rather horrified to be honest. The author had written a Mary Sue, the Daniel character was nothing like Daniel Jackson, and various basic writing mistakes hadn't been put right by the editor before the book went to press.

I'm more forgiving with fanfic. I have read the Eideann stories, and I agree with you that the Daniel in them is extremely damaged, verging on unrecognisable at times. I still keep reading them, though, because I miss Jack and Daniel interaction on the show and these stories at least give me that (most of the time).

With the way Daniel is written, it's possible the two writers are the same. Eideann has more skill as a writer than Bannister did in the book I read, so I wouldn't match them up on that score.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Brody is a complete Mary Sue. I was pretty shocked. The misuse of words is intriging because you'd think a editor would catch that, unless it's an English/American thing. I'd have to pay more attention to those instances.

At least in the Eideann stories, the characters care about Daniel. Many times in fanfic the characters have been distorted, sometimes from lack of skill but many times I believe it's done to hit the writer's kink. I think public humilation is a strong one here, along with exploring trust issues and the ol' h/c angle. And boy they sure talk about everything, don't they!

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

It's not just the word use, but the random changing of PoV in the middle of a scene, great personality shifts, and things happening that don't appear to make any sense in the physical reality I live in.

In Eideann's stories the characters do indeed care, but they seem to treat Daniel like he's a delicate flower way too often. What's quite odd is that the stories seem like they're meant to be a series but there's very little continuity between the most recent one and the other two - I had to just forget I'd read the first two and treat the latest like a standalone. I dunno, perhaps it was meant to be standalone. You're right on the public humiliation thing - I hadn't picked up on that. With the same theme in all stories I agree it's probably a writer kink.

One thing about the stories is that they could be half as long and still manage to fit in the same story - the writing can be very repetitive, as if the author doesn't trust the readers to pick up on her message the first three or four times. But I still read them. *g*

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the reactions are totally different than I would have expected.

I read Eros first, now the Quality of his Enemies. It drove me crazy until I realized she just rewrote the story covering the same themes, and introducing the same OCs. The main difference is Jack is in love with Daniel in one story. Very curious.

And she does cover everything very thoroughly. We hear the phone call. We get the phone related verbatim to character 1. Character 2 comes in and we get the conversation again, verbatim. It's a bit much, though at least we don't get the step by step, "he went to cupboard, found the Chicken soup, closed the cupboard, walked to the stove, bent over to get the pan...."

I'm thinking the repetition of the important themes is a kink for the author in this case. And I still have a few more pages to read before I'm done! *g*

[gateruner.livejournal.com]

I've never read Jo Bannister before, but I have been enjoying Eideann's stories as well. I like how she really includes the team in the stories and still manages to keep things in focus. Even her OC was really intriguing.

[gateruner.livejournal.com]

I hit send too quickly, dagnabit!

I did want to say that my only real complaints are that she tends to make Daniel so breakable and vulnerable. It's a pitfall that I've fallen into myself, but the team even seems to want to point it out and that just isn't so, imo.

[tenaya.livejournal.com]

This Daniel is very AU, but I am interested in his issues. And so I keep reading away.