Despite their penchant for anachronism and not-quite British dialogue, the writing in Shoebox is really excellent, as well as much funnier than anything I have ever attempted (in the written form, at least). I had thought maybe the project had been abandonded but they updated a couple of times over the summer -- it seems like the multimedia aspect of it has been pretty much abandoned, though. I mean, early chapters would be made entirely of letters, or notes written back and forth, or large portions of story would be told through photographs, and now it's more like a fic with some illustrations. But it's still a pretty good fic.

As for the question, what kind of writer would I be if I just TOLD you? Have fun theorising (and if you don't want to theorise, I bet there's someone who does...).