Writing meme, day 30 -- favorite fic
30 - Do you have a favorite fic you've written? What makes it your favorite? And don't forget to give us a link!
Um. I've written about 200 stories, from 200 words through 124,000 words. I have some favorites in those, anyone would, but they're my favorites in categories. You know: "Oh my god, I pulled that off? Hey, that came out much better than I hoped! Hmm, I'm writing horror again. No, really, the world needs more comfort fic." So, I'll list out my favorites for those categories, and if you guys want to ask me for my favorite in a category I haven't listed, please, feel free. I'd love the excuse to brag on them and link to them.
Oh my gods, I pulled that off? That'd be Sirocco. I wrote a freaking novel to tie off most of the loose ends in the Line War and it's one of the stories of mine that I will actually reread and get lost in. I'm amazingly proud of this one, not least for having something like seven or eight fight scenes with completely different flavors and styles. This is where I finally learned to choreograph fights in my head instead of having to work them out physically.
Hey, that came out much better than I could have hoped! This would be Ill-Met By Moonlight. I started out with an opening line about "Gregor was fairly certain that Duncan would have mentioned it if he'd loaned him a cabin that came with a wolf." I knew I needed more HL crossovers for crossovers100 and I always have a blast writing Oz, but I got home thinking, "Gregor's in one ep, I have no idea what he's doing right now, what'm I thinking?" But it was a good episode, Studies in Light, and I thought, "Oh, what the hell?"
So I re-watched that ep and started writing. And writing. And writing. This is the fic where
eponin began teasing me about 'You know, you said one more scene should do it -- three scenes ago..." I thought I was writing 4,000, maybe 6,000 words. No. 12,000 words later I finally had it done. It's one of my more sick and twisted villains ever, but I still love how this came out. And if I hadn't written it, I'd have never figured out that Gregor and Oz are the Hope and Crosby of the weird set.
Hmm, I'm writing horror again. That's going to have to be Memento (Mori), about Duncan's nightmares post-Dark Quickening. It was written for a lyric wheel, I got appallingly dark lyrics for it, and said, "Oh what the hell?" and wrote it as dark as I had time for. Not as dark as it wanted to get, mind. If I'd had more time some of the Grimms' Fairy Tales would have worked their way in, too, but this was bad enough. I've got some that are Gothic horror, and one that makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck at the end, but this one is just horrific, all the way through. (Although Handled With A Chain, Horton's autobiographical descent into evil, is a close second.)
No, really, the world needs more comfort fic. That would be De Profundis, where I went, "I'm writing from Rev. Bell's POV? I'm not even Christian, what the hell?" But it's about family by choice, and love despite arguments, and care, and sore spots, and yeah. I just love this one. (The Innocent Sleep is a close second; we need more Joe cuddles in the world.)
If you want to throw me a category (humor, caper, crack!fic, crossover, whatever), feel free, and I'll tell you which of mine I love most. Or tell me which ones you'd have listed for the categories above!
I hope I haven't bored you guys too badly during a full month of this, but done, done, done, whee! The full list of questions, linked to answers, is here. (Meanwhile, I'll just be over here being smug that I've gone more than a month and posted every day I wasn't out of town, and worked out damn near every day of that, too.)
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Um. I've written about 200 stories, from 200 words through 124,000 words. I have some favorites in those, anyone would, but they're my favorites in categories. You know: "Oh my god, I pulled that off? Hey, that came out much better than I hoped! Hmm, I'm writing horror again. No, really, the world needs more comfort fic." So, I'll list out my favorites for those categories, and if you guys want to ask me for my favorite in a category I haven't listed, please, feel free. I'd love the excuse to brag on them and link to them.
Oh my gods, I pulled that off? That'd be Sirocco. I wrote a freaking novel to tie off most of the loose ends in the Line War and it's one of the stories of mine that I will actually reread and get lost in. I'm amazingly proud of this one, not least for having something like seven or eight fight scenes with completely different flavors and styles. This is where I finally learned to choreograph fights in my head instead of having to work them out physically.
Hey, that came out much better than I could have hoped! This would be Ill-Met By Moonlight. I started out with an opening line about "Gregor was fairly certain that Duncan would have mentioned it if he'd loaned him a cabin that came with a wolf." I knew I needed more HL crossovers for crossovers100 and I always have a blast writing Oz, but I got home thinking, "Gregor's in one ep, I have no idea what he's doing right now, what'm I thinking?" But it was a good episode, Studies in Light, and I thought, "Oh, what the hell?"
So I re-watched that ep and started writing. And writing. And writing. This is the fic where
eponin began teasing me about 'You know, you said one more scene should do it -- three scenes ago..." I thought I was writing 4,000, maybe 6,000 words. No. 12,000 words later I finally had it done. It's one of my more sick and twisted villains ever, but I still love how this came out. And if I hadn't written it, I'd have never figured out that Gregor and Oz are the Hope and Crosby of the weird set.
Hmm, I'm writing horror again. That's going to have to be Memento (Mori), about Duncan's nightmares post-Dark Quickening. It was written for a lyric wheel, I got appallingly dark lyrics for it, and said, "Oh what the hell?" and wrote it as dark as I had time for. Not as dark as it wanted to get, mind. If I'd had more time some of the Grimms' Fairy Tales would have worked their way in, too, but this was bad enough. I've got some that are Gothic horror, and one that makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck at the end, but this one is just horrific, all the way through. (Although Handled With A Chain, Horton's autobiographical descent into evil, is a close second.)
No, really, the world needs more comfort fic. That would be De Profundis, where I went, "I'm writing from Rev. Bell's POV? I'm not even Christian, what the hell?" But it's about family by choice, and love despite arguments, and care, and sore spots, and yeah. I just love this one. (The Innocent Sleep is a close second; we need more Joe cuddles in the world.)
If you want to throw me a category (humor, caper, crack!fic, crossover, whatever), feel free, and I'll tell you which of mine I love most. Or tell me which ones you'd have listed for the categories above!
I hope I haven't bored you guys too badly during a full month of this, but done, done, done, whee! The full list of questions, linked to answers, is here. (Meanwhile, I'll just be over here being smug that I've gone more than a month and posted every day I wasn't out of town, and worked out damn near every day of that, too.)
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