A meme

[thisbluespirit]

Found in various places:

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 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.

Comments

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

I think it's a big part of the writing experience, certainly for myself and a lot of other people who I see talking about writing.

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.