Writer's Meme

[girlyswot]

When stmargarets tags you, it's hard to say no.

WRITER'S MEME: Sometimes it's ok to pimp yourself out. Post a list of the top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same.

1. Marriage

I love this because it was so easy to write. I did almost no editing or agonising. I didn't have a set plan, though I did have a general idea of where I was heading. I got to write my favourite scene ever (it's in part 8). And I think this was when I really started to see Charlie Weasley's leading-man potential.

2. The Nemean Lion

This was another one that just flowed. I had really intended just a bit of Charlie/Hermione fluff but then all this angst started pouring out of Hermione and it had to go somewhere. I quite like the sequel too, but the lion is one of my very favourite characters that I've ever written, so that's why this one wins my vote.

3. The Voyage

I can't remember when I started writing this but I should guess it's at least 10 years ago. Never meant for any kind of audience, just for my own pleasure. It meanders, it leaps in time, it doesn't have any kind of literary integrity - it's just fun scenarios with a pair of characters I wish I owned. I love it for its own sake and for the comfort it gives me to read even now. But I also love it because it was the very first thing I've written that I've ever shown to anyone, and it was my introduction to the whole wonderful world of LJ.

4. If the Giant Squid were a Horcrux...

There is no merit to this short 'not the ending of book 7' fic, but it makes me smile every time I think about it and imagine the horror on so many fans faces if JKR really did do something like this.

5. Long Love's Day

I think this is the story I'm most proud of. It was amazing to actually win the Valentine's challenge and to have so many people say such nice things about it. It does have a structure and a theme and, which is amazing to me, a resolution. And I had fun with it too.

I tag rhetoretician, moonette1, grandma_kate, zia_montroseand xianiane

Comments

[rhetoretician.livejournal.com]

Dear Ros, I'm flattered to be tagged, but (1) I've only written six fics that have been posted on sites, and fragments of one more that have appeared even here, and my other fragments (four at most) no one has ever heard of, and (2) all the writers on my flist who've written more than one or two fics have already been tagged. So I'll bow out for now and maybe I'll do it when I have more of a portfolio.

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could just pick one that you love best and tell us why?

[grandma-kate.livejournal.com]

I am even less experienced with fan fics. The Early Years is literally the first fiction I have written in more than fifty years. My field of expertise was early written literacy but that is about as far from writing fiction as you can imagine. Some of my blogs on our family site are pretty funny but there is nothing anyone could read.

Maybe I'll have a body of work in ten years or so.

[stmargarets.livejournal.com]

LOL - can you imagine the uproar if JKR wrote "it was all a dream" at the end of DH? LOL - too funny. I loved your James/Lily story as well. You should be proud of it! And I'm glad my Queenly powers still work on LJ - I wasn't sure how effective my magic was off the fluff thread. *wink*

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I know it's never going to happen - but I would be SO HAPPY if she ended book 7 like that - just because it would make so many people have to stop taking themselves so seriously. It really does make me smile every time I think about it.

Your magical powers are in no danger of diminishing, O Great Queen of the Fluffland.

[moonette1.livejournal.com]

This is a fun meme. You're written a lot of stuff! I still need to read The Squib.

I'm sort of like Ken. I suppose if I included drabbles and LJ non-Quill stuff I could come up with 5. But I still have to read your Bill crumpet! I've been lost in the world of Oliver this weekend and I have to admit it has been glorious. I'm writing a short sequel to AIR and I have the first chapter almost done. I guess I missed young Oliver after all! I'll get to Bill soon!

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

I think my writing is a triumph of quantity over quality. LOL.

I'm excited to hear that you've been writing again and I'm very much looking forward to reading more Oliver.

I'm feeling very stuck with The Squib - I still like my characters and the general scenario, it just is taking a lot of plotting effort and at the moment I don't have the time or mental capacity to really do it justice. I can't decide whether to just leave it until the summer when hopefully I'll have a bit more freedom to write, or whether to try to keep making myself go on with it. I don't want to give up altogether, but so many more fun ideas keep springing up.

Anyway, my point is, if you read it now, be prepared for a long wait before it gets finished. The last chapter took nearly 3 months to go up and the next is barely begun. Now if you want to read the last chapter, like JKR I've had that written for ages!

But I think you might enjoy Bill...

[zia-montrose.livejournal.com]

Hi girlyswot! Thanks for tagging me. I'm flattered, but I'm going to pass on this for many reasons. : )

[girlyswot.livejournal.com]

You and everyone else it seems - ah, well!