Fanfic meme

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01. Which is your favorite fic?
I don’t have enough work completely finished to answer this properly, since I’m taking this meme to only include work I finished enough to make public. The ATLA walkabout is certainly my *current* favorite. Also, since it is my primary focus for NaNoWriMo, it’s the story I’ve had the most progress on in the last six months, possibly the last year. That alone is going to raise my enjoyment in a work.

02. Which is your best-received fic?
Um…Well, Steph totally loves my original story “The Belle and the Ball,” and I haven’t exactly parsed the feedback from everything else. I think it might have to be “Grievances”; since it was published in an actual fan anthology it’s most likely the widest received, and I know I got a lot of great feedback on it during the 2005 Gathering. I was just a tad too preoccupied with, you know, trying to make sure the con went smoothly and worrying about my health to be able to focus enough on the compliments to remember them. (Except for Ellen Stolfa tracking down my room the final morning to ask me to sign her copy since she’d missed me the previous day; that made me feel pretty damn honored.)

03. Which is your worst-received fic?
Well, I don’t- OH!! My god. Hungry Shadows. Myself and two friends labored over that story for a year as a means to give the readers of TGS something to read while the handful of staff left on the project tried to straighten out what was supposed to happen in the world so we could actually write the remaining seasons (which was two for the main cycle, three for the planned Bad Guys spinoff, and one more apiece for Timedancer and Dark Ages) so they didn’t totally suck made sense would completely kick ass… and the overall response was so incredibly tepid ("It's set sixty years before the bulk of TGS, so why should we care about what happens in it?") that it actually made most of said project staff question why there were bothering to work on TGS at all. ...And then stop working on TGS.

04. Which is your angsty-est fic?
Uh…it’ll probably the “Somewhere in the Night” Gargoyles arc of the Unrelenting Song, where I've got Lex and Brooklyn separately angsting just about as hard as teenage male can angst, but about totally different things. Not finished, but I think I have enough scenes actually written to count for the meme, and they’re certainly angst-laden. The bits I wrote for Sasuke in “And one on the Wind“ aren’t so much angsty as they are disturbing.

05. Which is your funniest fic?
…”Spin the bottle” I guess. I mean, it’s *supposed* to be funny. Its very existence is “LOLwut?” crack, after all. But then, that goes for just about anything in the meta-continuity/Headspace. …Also, it’s supposed to be primarily a doujinshi, so I feel a little unsure about qualifying it as “fic.”

06. Smuttiest?
Right now? “Semantics,” although the ATLA walkabout is going to beat it out as soon as I finish the scene I’m currently working on. *Cough*

Oh. Wait. No. Possibly my contribution to that one Round Robin on Mooncat's board tops them both. But that was a couple scenes- okay, a page and a half- thrown into a group's writing, not a story primarily written by me.

07. Fluffiest?
The ending of Semantics randomly turned into fluff. Girl Talk is pretty fluffy, too.

08. Have you ever made someone cry with a fic?
Um…I’m not sure. If I have, and they told me, then I’ve forgotten. Guys?

09. Which fic frustrates you the most?
The Unrelenting Song. Because it won’t stop. And it’s huge; the thought of actually trying to write it all is pretty damn overwhelming.

…Actually, scratch that; that’s intimidation, not frustration. TGS frustrates me the most . Because right around the time we actually got the ball rolling, most of the people involved got too busy/uninterested/etc to actually work on the damn thing… and yet, after putting so much effort into it, I can’t just let it go. But I can’t do all the work myself, either.

10. Which fic was the most fun to write?
Fic can be fun to write?!?

Heh. The ATLA walkabout is certainly having its moments…and again, anything with Hebe and Regalia in it tends to be a gas. Hungry Shadows was, at times, extremely fun to write…and then it kept hitting roadblocks. I could answer this better if I had a better memory; it’s hard to recall the mood I was in while actually working on a project, especially when it was over six months ago.

After some consideration, I’m going to go with either Semantics or Life Fragments. Both had ideas that came quickly, flowed smoothly onto the page, and were easily “completed” as individual stories. I guess Semantics might have been a little more fun to write; Aburame Shino makes for an amusing drunk.

11. Who is your favorite OC you've ever created?
Impossible to say; I have far too many. Eclipse was, obviously, my first favorite. Now she’s sitting in a rocking chair and napping, waiting until I get around to letting her relive her glory days with the revamped Unrelenting Song saga. I think my at-this-very-moment favorite is Aori; I mean, shit, the ATLA walkabout wouldn’t have even existed if she hadn’t pretty demanded an actual story with screen time for herself and Miroku.

12. Are you better at one-shot or multi-part?
*snorts* Seeing as I’ve almost never been able to write a one-shot that didn’t turn into a multi-part epic…actually, I’m not sure if that makes me better at writing one versus the other. Certainly my brain likes to take a tangent and run with it.

13. What character do you think you're the best at portraying?
Out of all canon ever? Brooklyn.

14. What character is the most difficult to portray?
I can never get Goliath to sound quite right when it comes to dialogue. Other than that, anyone I don’t have a “feel” for is hard to write. And there’s a lot of those. : P

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And I think that's everything off of both comps. Still need to move the updated material from my laptop (Old Laptop now)- which is mostly writing and some art references- from the Black Box of Doom onto the New Laptop.

And then I have to bite the bullet and buy the student version of the Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web suite. Though, I must say, the online prices I'm seeing for it look higher than they were in the store, so it's possible I may not be getting it today. I'm planning to swing past the Apple location in Center City this afternoon already...I just wish I'd written it down when I was in the store the other day.

Looking up the address is next on my to-do list for the day; I was being so scattered I actually sat down and wrote out my chores, so the next time I found myself looking around and going, "What am I supposed to be doing?" I could take a glance at the paper and know.