Enchanted
I'm not sure I've ever read Masked Memories through in its entirety. Or if I have, it was a terribly long time ago. This morning I was going through reviews I've received; I'm not sure why either. Sometimes I need a little ego boost. Other times I just want to refresh my memory of what people have said about my work. I started reading Masked Memories out of nowhere.
Reading Masked Memories through this morning was a strange experience for me. Somewhere along the lines I sorta forgot it was mine, and I began to feel very enchanted with my own story, which is not often the case. I'm usually something like proud of my accomplishments, but otherwise I don't set aside an opinion for myself. Not to sound arrogant or anything; I'm not trying to say I'm an amazing writer, but I'm still rather enthused at the plot line in the end. I think that... alongside an Inuyasha one-shot I did called Virgo, I'm the most proud of this story; it's the best one I've posted on ffnet, and as far as completed stories go, it's likely the best I've written, although Libido is nothing to sneeze at ;)
I think I'll forever call Virgo the gem of my ffnet career, but still, I'm very pleased. I think that my favorite chapters of Masked Memories were Chapter 11: He Rescued Her Once, Chapter 12: Innocence (which I know is a favorite of csg_dear4life) and actually... the final scene in Chapter 10: Reflections, Sora's memory of a conversation she had with her father when she was a child. Actually, I think I enjoyed writing that scene the most out of all of them, trying to find that balance between adorable, fascinated young child and caricature.
Someday, very likely when I complete Yozora, I'd like to go back and refine some details in Masked Memories (I won't say which and call attention to them lol). Not delete the story, just reupload some edited chapters. I want it to be a paragon of my work.
haha, this sorta seems like shameless promotion... maybe it is?