30 Day Fandom Meme Day 30

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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.

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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.