How would you describe your humor?
Maybe a bit too complex. Sometimes when I make a joke people don't realize the joke. Sometimes I need to explain references so the comic of the moment of the moment is gone. Luckily this is not the rule and not all of the jokes I come up with are so dreadful
I really enjoy a good laugh and within certain limits of taste I'm perfectly fine with dark humor as well. I must say that gross humor is not my cup of tea and I don't seem to be able to understand the comic in the utterly random kind of humor found in some youtube videos.
I know for a fact that you have only written a few LBT fanfics. (All of which I tend to enjoy quite a bit, myself.) As good as the stories are though, was there ever a time you felt unsatisfied with certain parts of the story? And if so, what were those parts and why?
There sure are plenty of parts in my stories which I am not satisfied with. The first two "The Big Quarrel" and "The Cold Time" include not a single self-created character to begin with (also my English by the time I translated those two was so poor that I am still puzzled that people read them, but as this is more about the contents I will not further comment on the language). As for "The Big Quarrel" I think too much of the story is way too predictable. There is nothing REALLY surprising about the entire storyline. There are moments in both of these stories which I think are a bit too much of a clichÈ for me to be happy with it. Sometimes I'm afraid I did not make characters act the way that would be likely. For example the fear of Ali to be bannished from the herd in "The Big Quarrel". It is just implausible for the kid to be bannished. Or in the Cold Time we have a rather made up reason ("don't scare anyone") for not telling everyone about the sharptooth he and Ali had seen. Sometimes (not always) some of the characters are acting and talking "out of character" I'm afraid.
In some respects I took more care with "Old Threehorns", but I got in a tricky dilemma there in some points moving somewhere along the narrow line of what would and what would not be plausible to happen in a land before time story.
One general weakness of many of my stories is that they are very long winded and sometimes unnecessarily so. Much of the Cold Time is a long chain of events that don't always bring the story forward. In some cases I left passages which I wrote to prepare the stage for later scenes which I then decided not to write leaving the prepared stage sort of dangling in midair.
