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year-end writing meme
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shaggirl - Stories I wrote (and posted): 8 Smallville, 2 Yami no Matsuei, 1 Ai no Kusabi.
My favorite: Either White Bees & Sunflowers (SV) or Otsuya (YnM)at the moment.
My best: White Bees & Sunflowers. I'm also proud of Huitlacoche (SV) because of the challenges I set for myself in writing it.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: In actuality, none. In the light of my grasping, divaish need, all of them.
I do know that my version of a (as opposed to the) Bruce Wayne was annoying/confusing/unrecognizable to a great number of comics fans. That's not so much the stories being unappreciated as me coming up against certain facts of fandom and losing. I really like the stories, but I can understand why others didn't.
Most fun story: Hmmm, if we're talking about "fun to read," I don't think I wrote any fun things this year :) No silly stories, no parodies, no humor. However, if the question is actually "fun to write," I loved writing White Bees & Sunflowers and Raping a Slave (AnK). WB&S had the dream sequences and the fairy tale story, and RaS was melodramatic smut. Anime fic is fun to write because most source material has so much built-in, canonical melodrama that actually needs toning down to read as even remotely possible.
Sexiest story: Raping a Slave was definitely the dirtiest. Otsuya was the most romantic and the sex was written accordingly.
Story with single sexiest moment: One of the above, probably, depending on whether you like non-con or emotional sex scenes better.
Hardest story to write: The ones that were started and remain unfinished. Of the finished pieces, Huitlacoche was the most troublesome because aspects of canon kept changing while I wrote, and then a canon character briefly developed the ability to ascertain truths, and I just about gave up since my plot, as such, had been used. Except not really. And then I calmed down and finished the story.
Most unintentionally telling story: White Bees & Sunflowers is not unintentionally telling, but I think it's the most telling. Dreams, fairy tales, stream-of-consciousness, conclusions drawn from inference rather than solidity, and porn. All my favorite things without the negatives that do show in other stories. For instance, I wrote Huitlacoche based on things people said they hated in fic, just to prove that I could get people to read and enjoy things they claimed to hate. It was a fun challenge, and I really like the way the story turned out, but it was written with a lot of expectations and ego weighing on it, which isn't necessarily the best way to write.
If you write fanfic and haven't done this meme yet, I would encourage you to do so. I love knowing what other writers think of their own work.
shaggirl - Stories I wrote (and posted): 8 Smallville, 2 Yami no Matsuei, 1 Ai no Kusabi. My favorite: Either White Bees & Sunflowers (SV) or Otsuya (YnM)at the moment.
My best: White Bees & Sunflowers. I'm also proud of Huitlacoche (SV) because of the challenges I set for myself in writing it.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: In actuality, none. In the light of my grasping, divaish need, all of them.
I do know that my version of a (as opposed to the) Bruce Wayne was annoying/confusing/unrecognizable to a great number of comics fans. That's not so much the stories being unappreciated as me coming up against certain facts of fandom and losing. I really like the stories, but I can understand why others didn't.
Most fun story: Hmmm, if we're talking about "fun to read," I don't think I wrote any fun things this year :) No silly stories, no parodies, no humor. However, if the question is actually "fun to write," I loved writing White Bees & Sunflowers and Raping a Slave (AnK). WB&S had the dream sequences and the fairy tale story, and RaS was melodramatic smut. Anime fic is fun to write because most source material has so much built-in, canonical melodrama that actually needs toning down to read as even remotely possible.
Sexiest story: Raping a Slave was definitely the dirtiest. Otsuya was the most romantic and the sex was written accordingly.
Story with single sexiest moment: One of the above, probably, depending on whether you like non-con or emotional sex scenes better.
Hardest story to write: The ones that were started and remain unfinished. Of the finished pieces, Huitlacoche was the most troublesome because aspects of canon kept changing while I wrote, and then a canon character briefly developed the ability to ascertain truths, and I just about gave up since my plot, as such, had been used. Except not really. And then I calmed down and finished the story.
Most unintentionally telling story: White Bees & Sunflowers is not unintentionally telling, but I think it's the most telling. Dreams, fairy tales, stream-of-consciousness, conclusions drawn from inference rather than solidity, and porn. All my favorite things without the negatives that do show in other stories. For instance, I wrote Huitlacoche based on things people said they hated in fic, just to prove that I could get people to read and enjoy things they claimed to hate. It was a fun challenge, and I really like the way the story turned out, but it was written with a lot of expectations and ego weighing on it, which isn't necessarily the best way to write.
If you write fanfic and haven't done this meme yet, I would encourage you to do so. I love knowing what other writers think of their own work.