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donutsweeper) wrote2008-01-01 03:36 pm
donutsweeper) wrote2008-01-01 03:36 pm
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2007 Round Up Meme
Not a list of stories, because that would be a nightmare to try to put together (anyone who is interested can find most listed by month using the ficlist tag anyway), but the meme going around about your 2007 stories:
Favorite story this year: Charming the Pants off the Pashahads. My first crossover. It’s utterly huge, but the plot’s great and characterizations spot on and it just works.
My best story this year: I'm far too critical with my own writing to even begin to judge that.
Most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Unexpected Tourists- at 7k words I can see why people didn’t want to read it, but it was a massive turning point in my writing. It’s an entire episode-like adventure which I'm quite proud of
Most fun story: the two Alien Donut series (here and here), mostly for the way the donuts have spread through LJ as a result. Noncrack- Hair of the Dog, because everyone’s had a hangover like that and a friend who laughed at your pain.
Sexiest story: I don’t write sexy or romance well. Two Jack/Fraser ones come to mind (The Snapshot and The Captain and the Constable) and a Jack/Sheppard donut one (Alien Donut Doings) but nothing that isn’t a crossover fits this category.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: Five Lessons taught on the Valiant, most people don’t think of me as a dark writer but this set of drabbles contain enough violence, rape, and torture to make even those who do squirm.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Oh Captain, My Captain. Almost made me not hate Ten.
Hardest story to write: Telepathic Talks, mostly because I wanted it to be perfect for_medley_
Biggest disappointment: The Old Man Series. I should have stopped after just one story. The original Old Man was great but then it sort of petered out. Although I’m oddly proud of the end scene for the third part, A Diamond in the Rough (it’s a rape scene and so utterly unlike me, but terribly powerful)
Biggest surprise: A Face from the Past. Nancy took over the story, I didn’t mean for her to do that.
Most telling story: Not sure what that means. Maybe The Poker Game, because it shows that no idea is to cracked to have a drabble written about it
A story I want remembered: A Pair of Jacks, not for the drabble itself, or the attack it sparked, but for the fallout that followed.
Favorite story this year: Charming the Pants off the Pashahads. My first crossover. It’s utterly huge, but the plot’s great and characterizations spot on and it just works.
My best story this year: I'm far too critical with my own writing to even begin to judge that.
Most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion: Unexpected Tourists- at 7k words I can see why people didn’t want to read it, but it was a massive turning point in my writing. It’s an entire episode-like adventure which I'm quite proud of
Most fun story: the two Alien Donut series (here and here), mostly for the way the donuts have spread through LJ as a result. Noncrack- Hair of the Dog, because everyone’s had a hangover like that and a friend who laughed at your pain.
Sexiest story: I don’t write sexy or romance well. Two Jack/Fraser ones come to mind (The Snapshot and The Captain and the Constable) and a Jack/Sheppard donut one (Alien Donut Doings) but nothing that isn’t a crossover fits this category.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story: Five Lessons taught on the Valiant, most people don’t think of me as a dark writer but this set of drabbles contain enough violence, rape, and torture to make even those who do squirm.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters: Oh Captain, My Captain. Almost made me not hate Ten.
Hardest story to write: Telepathic Talks, mostly because I wanted it to be perfect for
_medley_Biggest disappointment: The Old Man Series. I should have stopped after just one story. The original Old Man was great but then it sort of petered out. Although I’m oddly proud of the end scene for the third part, A Diamond in the Rough (it’s a rape scene and so utterly unlike me, but terribly powerful)
Biggest surprise: A Face from the Past. Nancy took over the story, I didn’t mean for her to do that.
Most telling story: Not sure what that means. Maybe The Poker Game, because it shows that no idea is to cracked to have a drabble written about it
A story I want remembered: A Pair of Jacks, not for the drabble itself, or the attack it sparked, but for the fallout that followed.
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And I want to commend you on the rape scene too. It was very powerful - but yeah, it did make it really hard to continue, to know where to go from there. Still, I really like that series and I think even if you don't ever write any more of it, it's still readable like that.
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You beta-ed most of my best work (making it my best work, I may add), I'm surprised that there's anything worth reading that you missed somehow.
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Actually, looking more carefully, I think the only one I've missed is the Nancy one. There was a LOT going on in my flist that week, or something, and I just never caught up.
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And you'll be pleased to know that thanks to Smithy nudging me about my Jack/Jack fic earlier, and posting the master list of all the other fics, I have finally steeled myself to have another look at it and start working through all the suggestions that you and Alex made more than a month ago! I felt sick as I opened it, but once I read it, I was fine. And I'm making quite a lot of little adjustments and... well, we'll see what happens, but I think I've passed a hurdle or something.
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