Fanfic review meme
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thunderatiger and aranel_took.
My favorite story of the year
I think that has to Heaven's Embroidered Cloths, a drabble series I wrote in the Tolkien fandom. It was an "accidental series" that developed during my drabble-a-day project but which seemed to work really well when I put it all together. It also provided a jumping-off point for examining the Stewards's family as well as delving into real-world star-lore and Tolkien myth.
My best story of the year
I'd say that was a toss-up between A shadow of things that might be, where I think I really pulled off creating a spooky atmosphere for a ghost story, and Delusions, about what happened to Elizabeth Weir after she was captured by the replicators, where I feel I did a good job presenting something quite complex. (And, oddly enough, it turns out later in the meme that they were respectively the easiest and hardest stories to write this year.)
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion
Adrift - I wrote it for a ficathon and the person I wrote it for loved it, but it seemed to get far fewer comments than most of the other stories in the ficathon. Since the person I wrote it for loved it, that's what really matters, but I do feel it was something people weren't prepared to take a risk on when there were so many stories with more popular pairings to read instead
Most fun story
Altered States, in which I transformed Rodney McKay into a cat (and discovered how many cat-like traits he has already).
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters
An Elf Lord Revealed, a drabble series about Glorfindel that evolved during my drabble-a-day project. I'd never thought that much about Glorfindel before I wrote those drabbles, but I really got to like him and felt I understood him (and elves in general) much better after writing about him.
Favorite major canon character of 2008
Oh, that's a hard one. Elizabeth Weir made a strong bid but I think it has to be John Winchester in my somewhat lapsed Supernatural episode drabble project. Every episode I rewatched got me thinking about John's take on it, whether he was in it (or even mentioned in it) or not.
Favorite minor canon character of 2008
Chuck the Technician from Stargate Atlantis - he kept popping up in small parts, and then got a whole fic of his own at the end of the year.
Favorite original character of 2008
I didn't really write many OCs this year, but I think my favourite was one that I borrowed offsgafan: Chloe in Raising the Bar - it was fun writing a sassy, sexy woman getting Shep in a tizzy!
Hardest story to write
Delusions - I had the opening in my mind for a long time, and a strong sense of what would happen in broard terms, but working out the details and making it all come together *and* making every part and every word count and be right was very slow work.
Easiest story to write
A shadow of things that might be - I had quite a long period when I was thinking about the story but didn't have time to actually write it, so when I did start writing, it flowed out easily.
Biggest Disappointment
The Outer Limits People seemed to enjoy it, but I feel like it was much funnier in my head when I was plotting it than when I managed to get it down on paper.
Biggest Surprise
Writing for a new fandom (allscribblesinink's fault).
Did you take any writing risks this year?
Yes, several. I wrote a lot more for ficathons, which meant writing to a deadline, and in a couple of cases writing to a prompt for someone I didn't know for a fic exchange. I wrote a threesome story, which I'd never done before. And I experimented some with my style and wrote a couple of action-oriented pieces that consisted of many short scenes from different points of view rather than one or two long ones full of interior monologue from a single character.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story
I think that has to be my drabble Alter/native in which my muse demonstrated both her propensity to be perverse and her capacity to latch on to the most random comment and run with it....
thunderatiger and aranel_took.My favorite story of the year
I think that has to Heaven's Embroidered Cloths, a drabble series I wrote in the Tolkien fandom. It was an "accidental series" that developed during my drabble-a-day project but which seemed to work really well when I put it all together. It also provided a jumping-off point for examining the Stewards's family as well as delving into real-world star-lore and Tolkien myth.
My best story of the year
I'd say that was a toss-up between A shadow of things that might be, where I think I really pulled off creating a spooky atmosphere for a ghost story, and Delusions, about what happened to Elizabeth Weir after she was captured by the replicators, where I feel I did a good job presenting something quite complex. (And, oddly enough, it turns out later in the meme that they were respectively the easiest and hardest stories to write this year.)
Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion
Adrift - I wrote it for a ficathon and the person I wrote it for loved it, but it seemed to get far fewer comments than most of the other stories in the ficathon. Since the person I wrote it for loved it, that's what really matters, but I do feel it was something people weren't prepared to take a risk on when there were so many stories with more popular pairings to read instead
Most fun story
Altered States, in which I transformed Rodney McKay into a cat (and discovered how many cat-like traits he has already).
Story that shifted my own perceptions of the characters
An Elf Lord Revealed, a drabble series about Glorfindel that evolved during my drabble-a-day project. I'd never thought that much about Glorfindel before I wrote those drabbles, but I really got to like him and felt I understood him (and elves in general) much better after writing about him.
Favorite major canon character of 2008
Oh, that's a hard one. Elizabeth Weir made a strong bid but I think it has to be John Winchester in my somewhat lapsed Supernatural episode drabble project. Every episode I rewatched got me thinking about John's take on it, whether he was in it (or even mentioned in it) or not.
Favorite minor canon character of 2008
Chuck the Technician from Stargate Atlantis - he kept popping up in small parts, and then got a whole fic of his own at the end of the year.
Favorite original character of 2008
I didn't really write many OCs this year, but I think my favourite was one that I borrowed off
sgafan: Chloe in Raising the Bar - it was fun writing a sassy, sexy woman getting Shep in a tizzy!Hardest story to write
Delusions - I had the opening in my mind for a long time, and a strong sense of what would happen in broard terms, but working out the details and making it all come together *and* making every part and every word count and be right was very slow work.
Easiest story to write
A shadow of things that might be - I had quite a long period when I was thinking about the story but didn't have time to actually write it, so when I did start writing, it flowed out easily.
Biggest Disappointment
The Outer Limits People seemed to enjoy it, but I feel like it was much funnier in my head when I was plotting it than when I managed to get it down on paper.
Biggest Surprise
Writing for a new fandom (all
scribblesinink's fault).Did you take any writing risks this year?
Yes, several. I wrote a lot more for ficathons, which meant writing to a deadline, and in a couple of cases writing to a prompt for someone I didn't know for a fic exchange. I wrote a threesome story, which I'd never done before. And I experimented some with my style and wrote a couple of action-oriented pieces that consisted of many short scenes from different points of view rather than one or two long ones full of interior monologue from a single character.
Most Unintentionally Telling Story
I think that has to be my drabble Alter/native in which my muse demonstrated both her propensity to be perverse and her capacity to latch on to the most random comment and run with it....
