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ultraviolet9aI've been tagged by the shiny smilla02 for the following meme:
List your five favourite pieces of fic you have written...
... then tag five more people to do the same:
The five thingy thing (don't you love my verbal abilities?) is kind of really constricting. I'd love my whole flist to do this, and if you want, do. I'd be really happy. But I'm particularly curious about which fics you single out, and the writing process story behind them, of you, my shiny people:
hiyacynth, theladyscribe, elanurel, dodger_winslow, zelost_mind
I hope you don't mind my tagging. *hands your virtual chocolate cookies cuz bribery always works. Right?*
smilla02 for the following meme:List your five favourite pieces of fic you have written...
Small sidenote that I'm kind of attached to most of the stuff I submit here, or else I wouldn't have submitted them at all. They're like my babies, see? They are for me the way the Impala is for Dean, you know? And I could probably list all of my fic and tell you what it is exactly about each that makes me like it, but since it's a five thingy meme and love can have degrees, I have to pick my top five (I'd have preferred a top seven, really.) Here they go in random order (all SPN):
1. The Winchester plot - I think it was one of the first SPN fics I ever wrote and the first one I submitted, and I remember that I was laughing loudly as I was writing it. And then I emailed it toe313 and was harrassing here to drop everything and read the goddamn thing and she did, and she was laughing and at some point she said Dude, why not go online with it? Why not submit? Both she and I have been fanfic stalkers for years, but SPN really made me want to be part in the whole writing reading sharing thing, and she thought my writing was good enough to be submitted. So this story is my fic milestone I think. Plus damn funny. Spur of the moment, wrote it as I was thinking it up, as if it was writing itself. And still can't help laughing when thinking about it. I love crack.
2. As I was going up the stair - I loved this one. Everything about it. You got the little poem that the whole thing sprang from, and the concept, and it gave me such a hard time organizing the parts in such a way that the end will make one go WHOA, and I'm actually proud of how it worked out cuz dude? I'm a chaos girl at heart. No, really. (Which is another thing I'm grateful to this fandom for. It's my private writing workshop. It made me organize my writing. Made me work harder on it). And I love what this tale tells. And I love the feeling I had when writing it: I had the shape of the story in my mind, but it was like an object hiding under a cloth. I could make out the shape and knew it was there but couldn't quite get to it. And when in one instant I did...it was like finally finding the damn match for the candle.
3. Elemental - I have a fetish with the four elements. The parts of the story are structured around the four elements. And it all started with a dream I had of Dean wearing wings on his shoulders and standing pensive in front of me (and then I had an argument with Sam and made out with him? Though this part is not in the story) . The images relating to all elements turned out quite strong (in my so not objective opinion : ) ), and I managed what I really like to read in other fics: a punch in the gut ending.
4. listen, beloved - Mary Winchester background story. I read this poem by e.e.cummings and suddenly I knew I had to weave Mary's story around it. I did a lot, lot, lot of research for all the info given on charms and herbs etc in it. All are accurate. And I'm rather pleased with the fairytale effect of it, and the language, and the ending. (Bear with me, we're talking about my Impalas here.) And rather pleased that I wrote a fic in a context not that often written. (cuz seriously, how many stories giving Mary's background aside from meeting John have you run into lately? If you have, send me link please.)
5. The Weight of Dark - Sam starts having nightmares and it all sorts of moves in directions which usually shouldn't. I'm happy with the language I used in this one, cuz I worked so damn hard on it. If you read the first draft, the main idea and parts of the dialogue are there, as are some other basic elements too, but something was missing. I don't know what, it just...didn't taste right. So I kept it in the metaphorical drawer and one day I picked it up and knew what I had to change. Or add. And I did. And I liked the outcome. It was like having a mere skeleton and then you add the sinews and muscles and flesh and blood and skin and you get a living complete thing. ("It's alive! It's alive!")
(really, really close runner ups were My days are consumed like smoke and Clay. Dammit, it should have been a seven thingy meme. I feel as if those fics are looking at me asking why I don't love them this much. *facepalm*)
1. The Winchester plot - I think it was one of the first SPN fics I ever wrote and the first one I submitted, and I remember that I was laughing loudly as I was writing it. And then I emailed it to
e313 and was harrassing here to drop everything and read the goddamn thing and she did, and she was laughing and at some point she said Dude, why not go online with it? Why not submit? Both she and I have been fanfic stalkers for years, but SPN really made me want to be part in the whole writing reading sharing thing, and she thought my writing was good enough to be submitted. So this story is my fic milestone I think. Plus damn funny. Spur of the moment, wrote it as I was thinking it up, as if it was writing itself. And still can't help laughing when thinking about it. I love crack.2. As I was going up the stair - I loved this one. Everything about it. You got the little poem that the whole thing sprang from, and the concept, and it gave me such a hard time organizing the parts in such a way that the end will make one go WHOA, and I'm actually proud of how it worked out cuz dude? I'm a chaos girl at heart. No, really. (Which is another thing I'm grateful to this fandom for. It's my private writing workshop. It made me organize my writing. Made me work harder on it). And I love what this tale tells. And I love the feeling I had when writing it: I had the shape of the story in my mind, but it was like an object hiding under a cloth. I could make out the shape and knew it was there but couldn't quite get to it. And when in one instant I did...it was like finally finding the damn match for the candle.
3. Elemental - I have a fetish with the four elements. The parts of the story are structured around the four elements. And it all started with a dream I had of Dean wearing wings on his shoulders and standing pensive in front of me (and then I had an argument with Sam and made out with him? Though this part is not in the story) . The images relating to all elements turned out quite strong (in my so not objective opinion : ) ), and I managed what I really like to read in other fics: a punch in the gut ending.
4. listen, beloved - Mary Winchester background story. I read this poem by e.e.cummings and suddenly I knew I had to weave Mary's story around it. I did a lot, lot, lot of research for all the info given on charms and herbs etc in it. All are accurate. And I'm rather pleased with the fairytale effect of it, and the language, and the ending. (Bear with me, we're talking about my Impalas here.) And rather pleased that I wrote a fic in a context not that often written. (cuz seriously, how many stories giving Mary's background aside from meeting John have you run into lately? If you have, send me link please.)
5. The Weight of Dark - Sam starts having nightmares and it all sorts of moves in directions which usually shouldn't. I'm happy with the language I used in this one, cuz I worked so damn hard on it. If you read the first draft, the main idea and parts of the dialogue are there, as are some other basic elements too, but something was missing. I don't know what, it just...didn't taste right. So I kept it in the metaphorical drawer and one day I picked it up and knew what I had to change. Or add. And I did. And I liked the outcome. It was like having a mere skeleton and then you add the sinews and muscles and flesh and blood and skin and you get a living complete thing. ("It's alive! It's alive!")
(really, really close runner ups were My days are consumed like smoke and Clay. Dammit, it should have been a seven thingy meme. I feel as if those fics are looking at me asking why I don't love them this much. *facepalm*)
... then tag five more people to do the same:
The five thingy thing (don't you love my verbal abilities?) is kind of really constricting. I'd love my whole flist to do this, and if you want, do. I'd be really happy. But I'm particularly curious about which fics you single out, and the writing process story behind them, of you, my shiny people:
hiyacynth, theladyscribe, elanurel, dodger_winslow, zelost_mindI hope you don't mind my tagging. *hands your virtual chocolate cookies cuz bribery always works. Right?*
