1. Sci-fantasy. I do a little hard scifi, a little bit traditional fantasy, but generally elements of both tend to creep in.
2. By making it clear they're angry, or frightened, or in general need to be loud with surrounding clues. I don't think I've ever actually directly said they were yelling.
3. I have to watch myself with some words that I like, hehe. If I think it might be a problem, I do a search through the whole document for it and figure out if I'm imagining things.
4. Nothing would make sense out of context, and I don't think I could pick one.
5. A world in which AI surveilance and sabotage programs motivated by fear have subverted and completely destroyed the usefulness of the internet, but haven't otherwise harmed human society. Research into AI is banned, but still continues because of its usefulness in testing the prosthetic enhancements that everyone uses.
6. Coming of age. Cliche, but it's easy to structure conflict around. The framing story is sort of a romantic political thriller, as awful as I think that makes it sound.
7. Through 6's story, the protagonist gains and loses several powers that are alien to him, emphasizing the role of freedom in his happiness. He finally loses everything, and has to gain personal power to survive. It's not as obvious as this, of course, but it's there if you look.
8. Endings. Endings are always difficult for me, if I feel the story isn't going well in some way. I have the need to tie everything up neatly, where in reality some things can be left to the reader.
(sorry for the slight necro btw
Looked interesting and I forgot it wasn't on the first page)