Watch me ramble about my writing!

[lirazel]

Gakked from gabrielleabelle and angearia.

This is gonna be hard.

What's the piece of writing you're most proud of? Why?

I'm really proud of Infinitas Infinitio Infinitus because hey! Multi-chapter fic! And I finished it! And also Ars Poetica for the same reasons, plus I had the idea for so incredibly long and I never thought I'd get around to writing it.

Speaking of fic ideas that I'd been thinking about for years and never thought I'd actually write, I still can't believe that Forgive Us Our Trespasses ever actually happened. I literally had the tag line/summary of that fic floating around in my head for years, and I knew I wanted to do a breakdown of Mal's life with the seven deadly sins as a framework, but it just seemed so overwhelming for some reason. The fact that I finished it? And that people seemed to like it? Really important to me.

What do you think is your best work? Why?

Commas and Ampersands is up there. I lovelovelove the format, and I feel like I managed to build an actual arc around what was essentially a series of tiny vignettes. Counting Up, Counting Down still seems (nearly) as good to me as it did when I originally wrote it. That's really saying something.

Oh, and I'm still crazy about One More Song About Moving Along the Highway. It makes me hug myself with joy.

Is there a piece that nags at you and you can't figure out how to fix it or if it even needs to be fixed?

Metamorphosis is still, I believe, the best idea I ever had for a fic. Period. But despite the fact that it's been so well-received, especially by people whose opinions I value, it never has and never will measure up to what I wanted it to be in my head. I'm not usually as hard on myself as I was with that one.

I feel sort of the same way about Tangerine. People love it, but I don't think it'll ever measure up to the source material for me. Plus, Penny's section doesn't have as much of an impact as I wish it did. I'm still really proud of Polexia and Sapphire's, though.

Is there a story you wish you'd done differently? How would you change it, looking back?

I'm actually kind of ashamed of Take Five. I'm really still fond of the idea of plunking Cordy down into five different fandoms, but I wrote it in such a hurry for the deadline I've forgotten about that it ended up kind of sucking. I would go back and flesh every section out, make it longer, polish the writing. The Doctor convincing Cordy to be his companion by taking her shopping deserves so much better. As does the epic battle between Cordy and Blair.

What's the kinkiest thing you've written? This question is hard for me, because I don't think of myself as writing kinky stuff because I don't write anything explicit. I have never, and likely never will, written an NC-17 fic.

However, Playthings comes pretty close. What can I say? Elle and Adam are twisted.

Also, Death Becomes Her? Drusilla feeding from Adam is pretty intense, I guess.

What's the darkest piece? Um, all of them? *g* Ministers of Grace is the only fic I've ever written that ends without any note of hope at all. Poor Dru. *tear*

Nightlights was an attempt to get inside Buffy's head during S6, but I'm not a good judge of how dark it is. And in Scarlet and Midnight, every. single. person. on earth besides Buffy and Spike dies, which...yeah. Dark.

[EDIT] No! I was wrong! I forgot Requieum! That's the one May prompted me for, or I never would have written it: Six kinds of heartbreak you never recover from. Gah. Angsty heaven!

What's the funniest piece? I don't write funny. No, really. I don't write funny. Love and Blackmail will be the most lighthearted if I ever finish it (first order of business after seasonal_spuffy, I swear), but it isn't funny.

Oh, wait! I have drabbles that're funny! Three's Company is funny, and so is No Escape. I hope. If they aren't, don't tell me.

What's the piece that sounded good in theory, but just didn't translate well?

More Than One Day, apparently. I really liked the idea of Cordy having a part in the epic battle in "Not Fade Away." Maybe it's a little too Cordy-worship-ful? I don't know. Not a lotta love for that one.

Comments

[snickfic]

I have an awful, awful confession to make about Ars Poetica: I think I read the whole thing when you first posted it, but I was so distracted by how weird LJ rendered your formatting in the first two chapters that I can't remember any of it. And every time I think to reread it, I'm newly taken aback by the same formatting. Erg.

I've only really known you through Buffy fandom, so I keep being surprised by how much you've written in other fandoms. I need to go read your Firefly fic. *makes a note*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

That's not horrible! Is the formatting weird on that one? Going back through this, I realized that when I changed my livejournal stylesheet, it took out all the paragraph breaks, rendering them pretty unreadable. I've fixed all the ones listed in this post, and I need to sit down and do the rest soon.

But AP is in another journal--the fonts are a bit different here and there (something I can't figure out how to fix), but I didn't realize it looked wonky. What's wrong with it? I'd love to be able to fix it. If you ever want to check it out again (no pressure), it is over here at Elysian Fields.

Ha! Yeah, I've got a reputation as a bit of a fandom whore. I get distracted by the shininess! I'm always wandering off into new ones (currently I have fics I'm wanting to write/working on in four brand new fandoms. True story).

If you do get around to reading them, do let me know what you think! They're very Mal-heavy, and I know he's not your favorite, but I think you should at least like the Zoe bits in his! ;) Plus, lots of Inara, but not in all of them, so maybe you'll be able to find some stuff to like! But again--just if you do get the chance and you have anything to share. I value your opinion!

*loves that icon*

[angearia.livejournal.com]

You might be the person I've always needed to write a Jayne/Anya fic...

I think they'd be perfect for each other, haha!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! That's insane! I'm crazy about crossovers, as you may or may not have figured out by now, and that one would be hilarious. I need to really think about whether I'm funny enough to pull that one off....

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I'd help! I've just never felt confident with Jayne's voice as I've never written Firefly before, but...

I'd help!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

You know what? I've never written a fic with someone before. As soon as the s_s insanity is over, we should try it! I expect our combined powers of awesome would result in...greater awesome.

Plus, it'll give me an excuse to watch Firefly again....

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I am so there! And word to it being after the s_s insanity.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I have so much writing to do now. All the stuff I want to finish for s_s, two fics for the Fall Fandom Free-for-All, and then a few more that I've had in my head a while and I just want to get down on paper.

It's so stressful!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I know! It's just so frickin' much. I just...GAH. I'm worried about s_s honestly because TYSK is coming together in my head right now and there's only a few chapters left and they're so important. But participating in s_s is important, too. Eep.

Btw, I totally wrote my entire s_s story last spring the day of!

[snickfic]

But AP is in another journal--the fonts are a bit different here and there (something I can't figure out how to fix), but I didn't realize it looked wonky. What's wrong with it?

I assume you're talking about the version over at seasonal_spuffy? The fonts do weird things, yes, but also several paragraphs in the first couple of chapters go right off the page - I have to scroll right to see them all.

Personally, I'd copy the text itself and handcode it, but then I'm pretty low-tech about these things, as you've seen from the Seraph chapters. :)

And, likewise about the icon - yours is gorgeous! Just a fabulous job of framing.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

The fonts do weird things, yes, but also several paragraphs in the first couple of chapters go right off the page - I have to scroll right to see them all. Ugh. But I'm glad you told me--they don't do that on mine, so I never would have known otherwise! When I have some spare time, I'll have to try to fix it.

I did most of it with the rich text format, but I've started html-ing everything, and it makes life smoother.

It is lovely, isn't it?