Baaaah [Or: Tara Finally Caves and Does the Writer's Meme]
Writer’s Meme: Sometimes it’s okay to pimp yourself out. Post a list of your top five favorite fics you’ve written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn’t about the BEST things you’ve written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.
Is it okay to deeply love a series? If so, I’m voting for The Key’s Watcher/Dark Haven (BtVS/Anita Blake). Taken as a whole, it’s about 200,000 words long, and it’s the fan writing I’m most proud of and most likely to convert to original fic. If I have to choose one story in that series, it’s Dark Haven 1: Hunter’s Moon, which is the very first slash I ever wrote. [pets fic]
I wrote Tripartite [BtVS/ST:TNG] as a thank you to those on my mailing list, and I think it nails dramatic tension nicely, right at the end. Before that, however, I twist canon to certain logical conclusions, and these conclusions still make me really happy. Most readers find the story depressing. I don’t, but then, I’m biased. Plus, I really love fucking over the characters I write.
Continuing on with the theme of understated dramatic tension and readers wanting to go off and have a good cry somewhere after finishing it is Lost [due South]. The story came to me on the way home one Friday evening and wouldn’t let go until I wrote it. “Lost” hits buttons all over the place, but I think it does so without the reader becoming alarmed too early in the story. I like the pace I set, and I like the fact that by the time I get around to naming the elephant in the living room, everyone is right there with me.
Oliver Wants is the second story I wrote in Slings & Arrows, and to me, it reads like a prose poem. The pacing, the constant repetition, the creepiness - all of these things make for a very happy elementalv. So happy, in fact, that I recorded a reading of it, which can be found here, if you’re interested.
And rounding out everything is a bit of fluff I wrote *meep* four years ago. There’s far too much exposition and not enough information at the start of Truth-Or-Dare, but once you get past that and into the dialogue, the pacing picks up, and the writing evens out. It has one of my all-time favorite endings ever.
I’m supposed to tag five more, but I think this meme has about run its course. On the other hand, if you want to play, please go ahead. Better still, feed my ego and tell me which of my stories are your favorites. (Yes, I’m a feedback whore. I thought we established that a long time ago.)
Is it okay to deeply love a series? If so, I’m voting for The Key’s Watcher/Dark Haven (BtVS/Anita Blake). Taken as a whole, it’s about 200,000 words long, and it’s the fan writing I’m most proud of and most likely to convert to original fic. If I have to choose one story in that series, it’s Dark Haven 1: Hunter’s Moon, which is the very first slash I ever wrote. [pets fic]
I wrote Tripartite [BtVS/ST:TNG] as a thank you to those on my mailing list, and I think it nails dramatic tension nicely, right at the end. Before that, however, I twist canon to certain logical conclusions, and these conclusions still make me really happy. Most readers find the story depressing. I don’t, but then, I’m biased. Plus, I really love fucking over the characters I write.
Continuing on with the theme of understated dramatic tension and readers wanting to go off and have a good cry somewhere after finishing it is Lost [due South]. The story came to me on the way home one Friday evening and wouldn’t let go until I wrote it. “Lost” hits buttons all over the place, but I think it does so without the reader becoming alarmed too early in the story. I like the pace I set, and I like the fact that by the time I get around to naming the elephant in the living room, everyone is right there with me.
Oliver Wants is the second story I wrote in Slings & Arrows, and to me, it reads like a prose poem. The pacing, the constant repetition, the creepiness - all of these things make for a very happy elementalv. So happy, in fact, that I recorded a reading of it, which can be found here, if you’re interested.
And rounding out everything is a bit of fluff I wrote *meep* four years ago. There’s far too much exposition and not enough information at the start of Truth-Or-Dare, but once you get past that and into the dialogue, the pacing picks up, and the writing evens out. It has one of my all-time favorite endings ever.
I’m supposed to tag five more, but I think this meme has about run its course. On the other hand, if you want to play, please go ahead. Better still, feed my ego and tell me which of my stories are your favorites. (Yes, I’m a feedback whore. I thought we established that a long time ago.)