The Year in Fic - 2008
There's a brand spanking new leather planner on my desk, which means that 2008 is truly gone and lo, the 2009 - she hath come in all haste.
New year means self-reflection, yes? Excuse for navel-gazing and egocentric musings, right?
Oh, good.
(Meme yanked from all over the Interwebz.)
What’s your favorite story you've written this year?
I want to cuddle with White box with a happy flower. There's daddy!Dean, y'all. And it's warm and fluffy and not at all cognitively demanding. I wonder if you laid your ear against its tummy, could you hear it purr?
Highest quality work you've done?
I'm very proud of Hang Your Head Over. There was a particular understated tone I was trying for, and so a lot of hand-wringing and revision went into almost every line of that story. In the end, it was something I wouldn't have been embarrassed to turn in to my merciless creative writing teacher (erm, had she had any idea who the Winchesters were).
Story most under-appreciated by the universe?
One of my earliest SPN fics was a story in four drabbles, The Longest Path the Devil Laid. I've always been a little in love with the idea behind that fic, and I think it's extra-interesting now in light of season four's mytharc. It's still kind of a pet of mine, like a toy dog that I carry on my hip and quietly hope other people will coo over.
Story that could have been much better than it turned out?
*facepalm* Paris Ain't Got Nothin' on Me. It's just so dumb. It's completely random, largely inexplicable on its own, and the title is... dumb. This is why we do not post whatever spills into Microsoft Word at three in the morning.
Biggest surprise?
Five Things Only Dean's Wife Knows About Him was written at airports and on planes, solely to stave off boredom. I didn't really intend to post it - it was just a writing exercise to flesh out the possible Winchester future I was pondering. An excuse to think about Dean. So I was very pleasantly shocked when crack_impala rec'd it. That was cool. :)
Biggest disappointment?
Fic-wise? Losing my Open Invitation mojo. I was so excited about the first few chapters, and then I got an attack of omigod-can't-write-multichap! That creative writing teacher I mentioned? She'd totally call me a wuss and make me write it anyway.
Hardest story to write?
Hang Your Head Over. Hands down. I tried to write it about fifty different ways - switching point of view, adjusting the timeline, obsessively researching the likely repairs needed on a century-old farmhouse, on and on... And of course I chose to do it from Sam's point of view, when I often feel like I don't have a handle on him at all. Gah. There are more efficient ways to do this, Duckie.
Easiest story to write?
Great American Heroes wrote itself. I started with just one line about Sammy and centripetal forces, and the rest of the story fell into place around it.
Most overdue story?
The Open Invitation. *ducks and covers*
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Honestly, I was fairly conservative in sticking to subject matter I felt comfortable with. The closest I came to a risk was Come In, She Said. I don't write the porn. For me, anything even a little sensual is like, "Whoa, self! Why so harlequin?" So that fic was a step outside my box.
Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
I'm finishing that goddamn Open Invitation. For serious.
*looks back over year*
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
New year means self-reflection, yes? Excuse for navel-gazing and egocentric musings, right?
Oh, good.
(Meme yanked from all over the Interwebz.)
What’s your favorite story you've written this year?
I want to cuddle with White box with a happy flower. There's daddy!Dean, y'all. And it's warm and fluffy and not at all cognitively demanding. I wonder if you laid your ear against its tummy, could you hear it purr?
Highest quality work you've done?
I'm very proud of Hang Your Head Over. There was a particular understated tone I was trying for, and so a lot of hand-wringing and revision went into almost every line of that story. In the end, it was something I wouldn't have been embarrassed to turn in to my merciless creative writing teacher (erm, had she had any idea who the Winchesters were).
Story most under-appreciated by the universe?
One of my earliest SPN fics was a story in four drabbles, The Longest Path the Devil Laid. I've always been a little in love with the idea behind that fic, and I think it's extra-interesting now in light of season four's mytharc. It's still kind of a pet of mine, like a toy dog that I carry on my hip and quietly hope other people will coo over.
Story that could have been much better than it turned out?
*facepalm* Paris Ain't Got Nothin' on Me. It's just so dumb. It's completely random, largely inexplicable on its own, and the title is... dumb. This is why we do not post whatever spills into Microsoft Word at three in the morning.
Biggest surprise?
Five Things Only Dean's Wife Knows About Him was written at airports and on planes, solely to stave off boredom. I didn't really intend to post it - it was just a writing exercise to flesh out the possible Winchester future I was pondering. An excuse to think about Dean. So I was very pleasantly shocked when crack_impala rec'd it. That was cool. :)
Biggest disappointment?
Fic-wise? Losing my Open Invitation mojo. I was so excited about the first few chapters, and then I got an attack of omigod-can't-write-multichap! That creative writing teacher I mentioned? She'd totally call me a wuss and make me write it anyway.
Hardest story to write?
Hang Your Head Over. Hands down. I tried to write it about fifty different ways - switching point of view, adjusting the timeline, obsessively researching the likely repairs needed on a century-old farmhouse, on and on... And of course I chose to do it from Sam's point of view, when I often feel like I don't have a handle on him at all. Gah. There are more efficient ways to do this, Duckie.
Easiest story to write?
Great American Heroes wrote itself. I started with just one line about Sammy and centripetal forces, and the rest of the story fell into place around it.
Most overdue story?
The Open Invitation. *ducks and covers*
Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them?
Honestly, I was fairly conservative in sticking to subject matter I felt comfortable with. The closest I came to a risk was Come In, She Said. I don't write the porn. For me, anything even a little sensual is like, "Whoa, self! Why so harlequin?" So that fic was a step outside my box.
Do you have any fanfic goals for the New Year?
I'm finishing that goddamn Open Invitation. For serious.
*looks back over year*
That'll do, pig. That'll do.