I LIKE THIS MEME

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from harukami:

Rec-Go-Round: Rec me one story you've written that you're proud of, any genre, here on my LJ.

Then go forth and ask the same in yours.

All comers welcome! Even completely unknown persons!

(Speaking of recs, worldserpent talks about what works and what doesn't, and wants to know what are some good liscensed anime series to rent, netflix-style?)

Comments

[memlu]

klajskldjasd it took me forever to think of a fic. D:

Drift | Shaman King | Anna/Yoh

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nostalgia: being and time. This is the story of mine that nobody's read (X-files, and what's worse, het), and not without its faults, but I'm still proud of it, because it was where I first started playing around with several elements that have become pretty central to my sytle.

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Comment here since I can't comment there! This is beautiful. I don't completely understand it -- but then, I've only seen a half-dozen x-files episodes.

I do see what you mean about elements. There's that same unbridgeable emotional gap, one character straining for connection and falling short; except in this fic it's literal since the guy is, like, a ghost. I like the tension between the things he knows about her and the things he doesn't know, his own uncertainties. You have this way of writing contradictions that aren't actually contradictions, but are different aspects of a single whole personality, that I've always liked. (If that makes sense? It's late, excuse incoherency.)

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#^^# Thanks

I don't know why I'm so drawn to writing characters who are these masses of contradictions-that-somehow-aren't -- but it's a huge writer's kink for me and mostly I just go with it. I mean, what good is a kink if you don't indulge it?

Actually, not incoherent at all; you articulated it much better than I've ever been able to.

[cynic_in_charge]

Hum.

sannin, in three parts

This is going to sound so egotistical, but I actually like this one. Though I think I overdid a few things, but nobody's perfect.

(That's the first draft, I think. I'm not sure if I have a later one than that, but close enough. XD)

[svz_insanity]

Tiping the Scale. Hikaru no Go x Pet Shop of Horrors, gen.

There's so much I want to fix but I love the basis of this idea.

[tarigwaemir]

I don't know if I'm necessarily proud of this fic but it rather suits my mood at the moment: Exam Season, Prince of Tennis.

What a neat meme! And how quickly it's taken over the flist. XD

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The impression I get from this meme is that the way a writer percieves his or her own writing is VASTLY DIFFERENT from the way other people perceive it. It's not just that no one's picking the stories I'd pick; no one's picking the stories I'd expect them to pick, either.

Since I can't comment to your website: Ooooh, finally a Shinji fic without excessive rambling! Shinji always struck me as more of a grumbler than a rambler.

They walked around with baggy eyes and worried frowns, books clutched to their chests. They spoke in nervous, hurried whispers, and looked at textbooks with grim expressions. To Shinji, they seemed like doctors in a hospital, waiting for a patient to die.

Priceless. Works so much better to explain how right Shinji is to insist on playing tennis than if you'd just said it was something he needed to do. So many things about the Japanese school system seem counter-productive, but the cram-school attitude might be the most counter-productive of all

[tarigwaemir]

Yes, isn't it? I've been going around and feeling surprised while looking through people's responses. Although a large part of what's guiding my choices is the knowledge of what the person's read or hasn't read. E.g. some of the fics that I really am proud of were posted on chain_of_fics and hence get disqualified. >_