Fiction Year In Review
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cereta, here is my fiction year in review.
The List
The Faculty
Silent Running
Scrubs
My Christmas Nightmare
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Frozen
Foo Fighters RPS
Got Rhythm?
Metallica RPS (NB. Most links go to rockfic.com.)
Manipulation
Infinity (Crossover with Megadeth RPS.)
Snapshots
Pool Shark
Fire & Ice
Be Careful What You Wish For
Joe's Bar
Cold Night In The Big Apple (For fanfic100.)
Synesthesia (For fanfic100.)
Fingerprints (For fanfic100.)
Complicity (For fanfic100.)
Looking back on the year... I almost seem prolific. Wow.
My favourite story of this year:
In terms of what makes me think 'wow, I wrote that?', probably Synesthesia.
My best story this year:
This one's a tie. Manipulation is something I'm very proud of. It's not perfect—a bit on the adverb heavy side—but I think it's worthy of being right up there. If I hadn't gone on to write Synesthesia later in the year, it would have won outright. Synesthesia is probably the best thing I'll write in the fandom. I don't think that I can top it.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I don't think anything has been underappreciated, although, some stories have been misunderstood to an extent. I've had huge amounts of feedback on everything, which is downright lovely.
Most beloved by readers:
This question forced me to do maths. Damn it! I think Fire & Ice was loved best. You guys tell me, you're the ones who're loving/hating stories!
Most fun story:
Be Careful What You Wish For! I love Ms Prim to bits. I should really do more with her....
Most sexy story:
Synesthesia.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
Fire and Ice, chapter two. James masturbating in the hotel room.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Um... maybe Frozen for the very, very wrong subtext. I think my brain started twitching about ten minutes after publishing it.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Probably Joe's Bar. It certainly shifted everyone else's perceptions, albeit briefly.
Hardest story to write:
Maybe it would be easier to answer this if I askedevaine which one I moaned about most? I think it's a tie between Got Rhythm? and Fracture, the last chapter of the Manipulation trilogy. The former lingered on my h/d for about nine months in very scrappy note form and I seriously considered junking it just so that it would stop haunting me. The latter... well, that was draining. The whole trilogy was draining, in fact. This was the first time that I felt the weight of expectation upon my shoulders; knowing that so many people loved the first two parts made it harder to complete and I obsessed over every damn sentence.
Easiest story to write:
Snapshots, hands down. I started with a really clear mental image and it just flowed. It's short, I know, but what I published is what I wrote, with only about six words changed, courtesy of the RWG. A rarity for me.
Biggest Disappointment:
That I didn't finish off “Where The Wild Things Are”. I doubt that one will ever get finished off—I don't like it very much nowadays.
Biggest Surprise:
That I was still writing? No? I wrote an original story and tried to get it published. No bites, thus far, but then again... I didn't try very hard. Other than that, I wrote some slash based on movies and TV shows; I vowed that I'd never do that! (This doesn't exactly answer the question, but it's as good as it gets.)
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
Between Fire and Ice, Joe's Bar and my two drabbles, my kinks are hanging wide out in the open. I'd be much happier about this, if I'd done it on purpose!
cereta, here is my fiction year in review.The List
The Faculty
Silent Running
Scrubs
My Christmas Nightmare
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Frozen
Foo Fighters RPS
Got Rhythm?
Metallica RPS (NB. Most links go to rockfic.com.)
Manipulation
Infinity (Crossover with Megadeth RPS.)
Snapshots
Pool Shark
Fire & Ice
Be Careful What You Wish For
Joe's Bar
Cold Night In The Big Apple (For fanfic100.)
Synesthesia (For fanfic100.)
Fingerprints (For fanfic100.)
Complicity (For fanfic100.)
Looking back on the year... I almost seem prolific. Wow.
My favourite story of this year:
In terms of what makes me think 'wow, I wrote that?', probably Synesthesia.
My best story this year:
This one's a tie. Manipulation is something I'm very proud of. It's not perfect—a bit on the adverb heavy side—but I think it's worthy of being right up there. If I hadn't gone on to write Synesthesia later in the year, it would have won outright. Synesthesia is probably the best thing I'll write in the fandom. I don't think that I can top it.
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
I don't think anything has been underappreciated, although, some stories have been misunderstood to an extent. I've had huge amounts of feedback on everything, which is downright lovely.
Most beloved by readers:
This question forced me to do maths. Damn it! I think Fire & Ice was loved best. You guys tell me, you're the ones who're loving/hating stories!
Most fun story:
Be Careful What You Wish For! I love Ms Prim to bits. I should really do more with her....
Most sexy story:
Synesthesia.
Story with the single sexiest moment:
Fire and Ice, chapter two. James masturbating in the hotel room.
"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Um... maybe Frozen for the very, very wrong subtext. I think my brain started twitching about ten minutes after publishing it.
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters:
Probably Joe's Bar. It certainly shifted everyone else's perceptions, albeit briefly.
Hardest story to write:
Maybe it would be easier to answer this if I asked
evaine which one I moaned about most? I think it's a tie between Got Rhythm? and Fracture, the last chapter of the Manipulation trilogy. The former lingered on my h/d for about nine months in very scrappy note form and I seriously considered junking it just so that it would stop haunting me. The latter... well, that was draining. The whole trilogy was draining, in fact. This was the first time that I felt the weight of expectation upon my shoulders; knowing that so many people loved the first two parts made it harder to complete and I obsessed over every damn sentence.Easiest story to write:
Snapshots, hands down. I started with a really clear mental image and it just flowed. It's short, I know, but what I published is what I wrote, with only about six words changed, courtesy of the RWG. A rarity for me.
Biggest Disappointment:
That I didn't finish off “Where The Wild Things Are”. I doubt that one will ever get finished off—I don't like it very much nowadays.
Biggest Surprise:
That I was still writing? No? I wrote an original story and tried to get it published. No bites, thus far, but then again... I didn't try very hard. Other than that, I wrote some slash based on movies and TV shows; I vowed that I'd never do that! (This doesn't exactly answer the question, but it's as good as it gets.)
Most Unintentionally Telling Story:
Between Fire and Ice, Joe's Bar and my two drabbles, my kinks are hanging wide out in the open. I'd be much happier about this, if I'd done it on purpose!
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Date: 2006-01-02 03:44 pm (UTC)You have been :). I thought about doing this meme, but considering the sheer volume of stories I wrote last year , the answers would be very repetitive, lol.
However, I'm about to start the new year on a good note in this area :D.
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Date: 2006-01-02 04:10 pm (UTC)Oh? Should I be watching my inbox avidly?
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Date: 2006-01-02 04:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-02 06:02 pm (UTC)Have you been reading the LOTRIPS Secret Santa thingie over at Digitalcandy? There's a gorgeous Dom/Billy.... (Well, there are many Dom/Billy's, but this one I particularly liked: This Time Around (the Sun) (http://slasha.digitalcandy.net/2005/thistime.html))
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Date: 2006-01-02 06:26 pm (UTC)*cough* I'm afraid that my Bean muse is lying drunk and incommunicado under the table. I'll keep poking it with a Dom stick.
Right now, I'm totally in lurve with Dom/Billy--just look at the pretty pretty manip....
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Date: 2006-01-02 07:16 pm (UTC)Maybe a Dom/Billy plot will arrive sometime after I finish at least one Tallica-fic?
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Date: 2006-01-02 07:24 pm (UTC)The hardest for you to write - from my POV? I think I'd have to say it was the last part of "Fire and Ice". The deciding which way it was going to go - the popular way, to have James return Kirk's love - or the TRUE way for the story and the characters, the way you eventually wrote it. Keeping in mind, that I wasn't working with you when you wrote the Manipulation trilogy.
Guess I'm gonna have to do this meme too, huh? *grin*
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Date: 2006-01-02 07:30 pm (UTC)I'd forgotten we hadn't met when I was doing Manipulation--it seems, in totally a good way, that you've been around for so much longer than you have. I'd also
forgottenrepressed how awful that final chapter of F&I was to write. God, I was whiny, wasn't I?And yes. You should indeed do this meme as you've written some fabulous stuff this year, m'dear!
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Date: 2006-01-02 07:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-02 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-03 01:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-03 10:15 pm (UTC)My votes on Synesthesia.
Oh, and your writing rocks.