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And also, two more
runaway_tales fics (which is where all my writing energies have been going lately, sorry):
Nothing Is Secret These Days (PG, 2467 words. 1959, Thomas Hallam, Edward Iveson, Amyas Harding, Julia Iveson.) “What sort of skeleton do you have in your closet, Edward, that you’d do this?”
Locked Down (PG, 1755 words. 1985, Michael Seaton, Louise Seaton.) Arran and Liesa, hiding out together.
Ask me a question about one of my fics. It can be absolutely anything in any project and I will answer it the best I can -- even on current progress/plans.
If you'd prefer, you can also ask about my writing for a particular fandom, my writing as a whole, etc.
(I can't imagine what anybody would want to ask me, but I suppose if I post it, I might find out? Or not, understandably.)
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And also, two more
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Nothing Is Secret These Days (PG, 2467 words. 1959, Thomas Hallam, Edward Iveson, Amyas Harding, Julia Iveson.) “What sort of skeleton do you have in your closet, Edward, that you’d do this?”
Locked Down (PG, 1755 words. 1985, Michael Seaton, Louise Seaton.) Arran and Liesa, hiding out together.
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Date: 11 Feb 2015 05:29 pm (UTC)It is difficult, because there's a distance from things I wrote a while ago, and things in them I wouldn't necessarily do now. But the stuff I do now, I tend to not be so proud of because I can see the bits where my illness shows so often, even if no one else can. In fact, it's worrying that no one else can.
So, in the category of fic/fics I am most proud of today (but probably not yesterday or tomorrow), then "A Gallifreyan at Blandings" (the Tenth Doctor/PG Wodehouse crossover) because I'm not sure myself how I managed to pull that one off. "Ten Times the Doctor (Almost) Got Hitched" was one of the most fun things I ever did, and I still like some of the sections very much. "Vigil" (one of my Yuletide treats from a couple of years back) for reasons that are harder to explain, but it's a very simple, brief fic, but it was very scary to do and I had a lot of feelings about it, and it does seem that some of what I intended came through in the reviews. Also, I still haven't seen another fic for that particular pairing taken seriously anywhere. I don't think I'm still especially proud of it in the same way, but I do have a lot of fondness for "Strange Weapons" because the whole Tilly and Nat and 1980s UNIT was rather fun to do.
I've had fun writing fanfic. Some of my fics will always frustrate me, even if other people like them, but there are a bunch that, yes, most days I'm pleased with. Random things that happened to come from nearer the heart than others, comedy that still holds up, unexpected crossovers that worked, and probably most of the stuff I've written for Yuletide. Except, of course, those days when I despair of myself, but that's just being a writer, isn't it?
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Date: 12 Feb 2015 09:43 pm (UTC)I think it's absolutely right that most people who write are extremely self-critical, and often for things that other people don't necessarily pick up on. I have this sort of love-hate thing going on with a lot of my fics, especially some of the ones that seemed to go over well with a lot of people, because there's always the flaw that stands out, the niggling feeling, the wish that you'd done something differently. And I agree that this changes over time - the fic you were really pleased with when you wrote it a few years ago seem terrible in all sorts of ways if you look back on them now. Obviously, I don't have your experience of illness, but I can recognise those feelings, and I think it's part of how you learn and develop as a writer and also how you know you are learning and developing to some extent.
But as you say, most of all it's fun and I think the fun still outweighs the other stuff, most of the time, for me. And I agree with your choices there, fwiw - you know all to well the admiration I have for the UNIT stuff. I don't think I've read "Vigil", however - something I'm going to have to remedy sooner rather than later.