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norwich36; January 2: Stories you've written you're especially proud of, and why.
That’s a tough one! I tend to be in love with my stories for a while, then start to see their flaws. And there are stories where I really like what I tried to do but know I didn’t succeed. But, hmm, I thought that Acadia (XF) captured the feeling of the park, filtered through a serial killer story and Scully’s cancer arc. Switch: A Comedy of Terrors (Smallville, Clark/Lex) was one of my first explicit (as opposed to accidental) attempts to take a trope and run with it, and I enjoyed the heck out of it. In Smallville, I also thought that Five Things That Never Happened To Lex Luthor came out well, with a nice mix of possibilities both ugly and at least partly happy. Useful Arts took a while to bake, but I felt like the story ended up with the kind of sweep I wanted, and Kara was a delight to write, allowing me to use the line “kidnapped by homophobia”-and have Lex correct her!
Under Darkening Skies is a Buffy/SPN crossover that I felt made the two universes work together as well as anyone could have expected, and also allowed me to give Willow Dean (I understand she’s identified as lesbian despite Oz, but I insist that Dean is worthy of crossing a few lines). Angels in the Architecture (SPN/Firefly) has the distinction of being written from year to year, as I get prompts, and it’s like playing Exquisite Corpse with myself.
Complete Blank is probably my most successful Yuletide story; I thought it did manage to capture that Grosse Pointe Blank feeling.
And then there’s SPN, my dominant fandom for a while. I’m at the point where I see the warts most easily with these, but here are a few that I feel did what I wanted them to do: Rough Riders (compatibility is hard!); Vagabondage (trust is sexy!); Filthy Mind (extreme!); and Captured by the Game (written in a fever of excitement!).
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norwich36; January 2: Stories you've written you're especially proud of, and why.
That’s a tough one! I tend to be in love with my stories for a while, then start to see their flaws. And there are stories where I really like what I tried to do but know I didn’t succeed. But, hmm, I thought that Acadia (XF) captured the feeling of the park, filtered through a serial killer story and Scully’s cancer arc. Switch: A Comedy of Terrors (Smallville, Clark/Lex) was one of my first explicit (as opposed to accidental) attempts to take a trope and run with it, and I enjoyed the heck out of it. In Smallville, I also thought that Five Things That Never Happened To Lex Luthor came out well, with a nice mix of possibilities both ugly and at least partly happy. Useful Arts took a while to bake, but I felt like the story ended up with the kind of sweep I wanted, and Kara was a delight to write, allowing me to use the line “kidnapped by homophobia”-and have Lex correct her!
Under Darkening Skies is a Buffy/SPN crossover that I felt made the two universes work together as well as anyone could have expected, and also allowed me to give Willow Dean (I understand she’s identified as lesbian despite Oz, but I insist that Dean is worthy of crossing a few lines). Angels in the Architecture (SPN/Firefly) has the distinction of being written from year to year, as I get prompts, and it’s like playing Exquisite Corpse with myself.
Complete Blank is probably my most successful Yuletide story; I thought it did manage to capture that Grosse Pointe Blank feeling.
And then there’s SPN, my dominant fandom for a while. I’m at the point where I see the warts most easily with these, but here are a few that I feel did what I wanted them to do: Rough Riders (compatibility is hard!); Vagabondage (trust is sexy!); Filthy Mind (extreme!); and Captured by the Game (written in a fever of excitement!).
comments on DW | reply there. I have invites or you can use OpenID.