30 Day Fandom Meme Day 30

[leethet]

Day 30 – Do you have a favourite fic you've written? What makes it your favourite?

Rainbow (MFU) and Covenant (HP). They’re the fics where I did the best overall job. There might be others of my fics that have, say, a bit that I like best overall, or dialogue I like best (I really like the whole bit in Anything where Napoleon works his way through the laser research site, because it's rare to see Napoleon in action-man mode), but these were, I think, best quality overall, where I came closest to the story in my head.

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Where does Rainbow fit into your MFU fics, in terms of when you wrote it--was it in the middle, or a late fic?

I like it a lot; I like the subtlety of Napoleon and Illya's interaction and Napoleon's moral conundrum--the same theme in one form or another does seem to run through your stories. The agents seem younger to me here than in some of your other stories, that's one reason I wonder.

And since I'm asking, are you surprised by which of the stories have become most popular?

[leethet.livejournal.com]

It came later - I've found that in any fandom where I've written a while, the later fics manage to be less soppy. :-) Not sure why that is except that perhaps I run through the "Oh, they love each other so much!" emotional high at the start of writing them, and only later delve a bit more into the other complexities of their situation.

As far as popularity ... that's such a hard question, you know? To me, most of my stories have been "popular" in the sense that they've gotten what seems to me to be a lot of positive comments. Whether they get, you know, more or less than someone else (which is the usual way of defining "popular") I can never know, and that's probably for the best! I wasn't surprised Rainbow never got many comments (very few, compared to other stories of mine) because it was first out in a zine (silence - no surprise in the zine world) and then it went online (non-happy ending - I don't like those much myself :-)). At least, those are my guesses for why it fell into resounding silence, compared to my other stories.

There are aspects of other stories (more popular ones) that I like a lot, but I think Rainbow was where, overall, the level of quality and of my being able to say what I was trying to say (which is critical for me to be able to say "I wrot dat good!") was highest.