Writing meme.
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randomlingOkay, this has been stolen from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
phaballa, who resurrected it from a few years back, and I thought it was interesting. It goes a little something like this:
List your favourite story from each month this year, and say a little something about it.
January
The Itch part 1 part 2
Written forravenbat for a random, slightly spooky prompt she left on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fic_requests. I'd only been in popslash a very short time when I wrote this, and was quite rusty at the whole "writing" thing - and looking back, I'm quite proud of the effect. It's also the only time I've posted a WIP, and while it's not something I'll do again (I wasn't happy with posting something only half-finished), I was quite pleased with the anticipation and suspense I got in the feedback for the first part! I also loved that bossymarmalade wrote The Invisible Man Mix which, if you haven't read it, is pure awesome.
February
I wrote no fic in February. [sadface]
March
All Yours
My JuC Day fic. I love writing ficlets - I love the challenge of writing something that says a lot in not very many words - and this is one of the best I've written, I think. It's also the first JuC I wrote and I have a real soft spot for it. I like the way it captures that early-morning mood, sleepy and loving and slightly regretful, and I think I did pretty well with the miscommunication at the heart of the story that makes it so bittersweet.
April
There Is No Wrong Side
April was, unofficially, "Choey Month" for me, and this is one of three fics I wrote for the April monthly challenge. The last one, actually. I have a thing for my bittersweet stories, they hit a spot that my sappy ones don't, and this one's - not exactly bittersweet, but pensive, a mature Chris reflecting on the past. And having hot Jacuzzi sex with Joey. There's really no bad there. :P
May
These Foolish Things
May was a month full of cool things, and I also wrote bittersweet Lambs and the hot threesome PWP that opened the floodgates for me with writing porn - but of all my May stories (and there were many!) this one has the most of my affection. It's terribly obscure, a pop/Firefly crossover in which Justin ends up on Serenity in undisclosed circumstances and has a tender but somewhat precarious relationship with Inara. I'm really tempted to sequel this story, but also don't want to ruin the original by following it up with too much detail. I'm proud of it because I like both the Inara and the Justin I've written here, and their fragile little just-the-two-of-them-world.
June
A History Lesson
I'm starting to show a pattern here, aren't I? This is bittersweet too, and actually, more bitter than sweet, in my opinion. It's about Justin realizing that something that was once precious to him is lost forever, and it's one of the really nasty things about growing up, but also being still child-like in some ways; Joey's relationship to Justin is both sexual and almost-parental, and some of Justin's confusion comes from not knowing which mode to use. In that way I suppose it's an exploration of one of my own past relationships. I like the Justin in this, 'cause he's really trying to be a grown-up, but there are some people who aren't ready for that to happen.
July
This Side Of The Fence
More bittersweet, and more Lambs - this time from Chris's point of view. I like angry Justin, docile Lance and mother-hen Chris in this, and the contrast of who is innocent and who isn't in this. Chris is jaded; Lance is innocent; Justin seems innocent, but shows a flare of defiance and awareness when challenged. It's a story that's got a little bit of promise of trouble in the future. Another one I'd like to sequel without ruining it, if that's even possible...
August
Persuasion
August wasn't a very prolific month (I was writing a lot of JuC Swap words!) but this is my favourite of the month. For once, it's not bittersweet - instead it's short and sweet and even sort of funny, though I don't really do funny very well. Joey and Lance banter over a radio interview Justin's given, and there's a lot of affection there under the vaguely-argumentative dialogue.
September
Flaming Ninja Waffles part 1 part 2
No contest. At all. This is sort of the ultimate story of mine, really, and I still adore it, even though it's months now since I wrote it. It's about the healing power of friendship, and about reaching out to other people when you're isolated. It's about depression, really; I was severely depressed when I was writing this and in a way it was a very healing story to write. I wanted to write a really injured JC, so I made him a wounded war veteran, and it's... angsty without (I hope) being overblown. I love it, because it's not about one injured person and his knight in shining armour. Justin is injured too, and that's the whole point; it's about two injured people helping each other and listening to each other. That's the best kind of friendship, I think.
October
Ink
I like this because, although it's short, it says a lot, and it's got a diva fight between Justin and JC, offset with sweet intimate TrickC moments. I think it's a story about the difference between the group dynamic and that special space that exists between two people who really care about each other. And also about Chris's slightly precarious place between JC his lover and Justin his best friend, and how he carefully walks that line when they're fighting.
November
The Bus Remedy
This is how you tell I was hopelessly corrupted by JuC Swap. This is more JuC; hurt/comfort, sick!Justin JuC. I like this sort of thing a lot when it's Lambs, too (and have really written my hurt/comfort Lambs, though it was up against stiff competition for favourite May story), but somehow this is sweeter because of the implied threemanbus, and because it does one of my favourite things to do to Justin - injects a bittersweet remembrance of the past and an attempt to recapture it. It's probably not something that has anything to do with reality (but, hi, fiction) - but the "lost youth" concept has something to do with it, and it's powerful and interesting to me. Justin's trying to recapture not just the group dynamic and his relationships with JC and Chris, but his own childhood. Sadly, it doesn't really work like that.
December
Park Guy part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
I don't have any choice for favourite December fics (in fact, I posted it just after midnight on the 1st, and it's my only December story so far), but I am very proud of this story. It's the longest I've ever written, and it's about - loneliness, again, and fear, and figuring out how to move past that and find a connection with someone. I liked the moving from Justin to Lance and back again, because it's a story about both of them; and because it's Justin who has the work to do, Justin whose mental blocks make it all almost not happen. I like this Justin, 'cause I poured myself into him somewhat, and he's tough and he copes but that doesn't mean things aren't hard. It's like that sometimes. And, yes. I like this story.
Um, the end.
phaballa, who resurrected it from a few years back, and I thought it was interesting. It goes a little something like this:List your favourite story from each month this year, and say a little something about it.
January
The Itch part 1 part 2
Written for
ravenbat for a random, slightly spooky prompt she left on fic_requests. I'd only been in popslash a very short time when I wrote this, and was quite rusty at the whole "writing" thing - and looking back, I'm quite proud of the effect. It's also the only time I've posted a WIP, and while it's not something I'll do again (I wasn't happy with posting something only half-finished), I was quite pleased with the anticipation and suspense I got in the feedback for the first part! I also loved that bossymarmalade wrote The Invisible Man Mix which, if you haven't read it, is pure awesome.February
I wrote no fic in February. [sadface]
March
All Yours
My JuC Day fic. I love writing ficlets - I love the challenge of writing something that says a lot in not very many words - and this is one of the best I've written, I think. It's also the first JuC I wrote and I have a real soft spot for it. I like the way it captures that early-morning mood, sleepy and loving and slightly regretful, and I think I did pretty well with the miscommunication at the heart of the story that makes it so bittersweet.
April
There Is No Wrong Side
April was, unofficially, "Choey Month" for me, and this is one of three fics I wrote for the April monthly challenge. The last one, actually. I have a thing for my bittersweet stories, they hit a spot that my sappy ones don't, and this one's - not exactly bittersweet, but pensive, a mature Chris reflecting on the past. And having hot Jacuzzi sex with Joey. There's really no bad there. :P
May
These Foolish Things
May was a month full of cool things, and I also wrote bittersweet Lambs and the hot threesome PWP that opened the floodgates for me with writing porn - but of all my May stories (and there were many!) this one has the most of my affection. It's terribly obscure, a pop/Firefly crossover in which Justin ends up on Serenity in undisclosed circumstances and has a tender but somewhat precarious relationship with Inara. I'm really tempted to sequel this story, but also don't want to ruin the original by following it up with too much detail. I'm proud of it because I like both the Inara and the Justin I've written here, and their fragile little just-the-two-of-them-world.
June
A History Lesson
I'm starting to show a pattern here, aren't I? This is bittersweet too, and actually, more bitter than sweet, in my opinion. It's about Justin realizing that something that was once precious to him is lost forever, and it's one of the really nasty things about growing up, but also being still child-like in some ways; Joey's relationship to Justin is both sexual and almost-parental, and some of Justin's confusion comes from not knowing which mode to use. In that way I suppose it's an exploration of one of my own past relationships. I like the Justin in this, 'cause he's really trying to be a grown-up, but there are some people who aren't ready for that to happen.
July
This Side Of The Fence
More bittersweet, and more Lambs - this time from Chris's point of view. I like angry Justin, docile Lance and mother-hen Chris in this, and the contrast of who is innocent and who isn't in this. Chris is jaded; Lance is innocent; Justin seems innocent, but shows a flare of defiance and awareness when challenged. It's a story that's got a little bit of promise of trouble in the future. Another one I'd like to sequel without ruining it, if that's even possible...
August
Persuasion
August wasn't a very prolific month (I was writing a lot of JuC Swap words!) but this is my favourite of the month. For once, it's not bittersweet - instead it's short and sweet and even sort of funny, though I don't really do funny very well. Joey and Lance banter over a radio interview Justin's given, and there's a lot of affection there under the vaguely-argumentative dialogue.
September
Flaming Ninja Waffles part 1 part 2
No contest. At all. This is sort of the ultimate story of mine, really, and I still adore it, even though it's months now since I wrote it. It's about the healing power of friendship, and about reaching out to other people when you're isolated. It's about depression, really; I was severely depressed when I was writing this and in a way it was a very healing story to write. I wanted to write a really injured JC, so I made him a wounded war veteran, and it's... angsty without (I hope) being overblown. I love it, because it's not about one injured person and his knight in shining armour. Justin is injured too, and that's the whole point; it's about two injured people helping each other and listening to each other. That's the best kind of friendship, I think.
October
Ink
I like this because, although it's short, it says a lot, and it's got a diva fight between Justin and JC, offset with sweet intimate TrickC moments. I think it's a story about the difference between the group dynamic and that special space that exists between two people who really care about each other. And also about Chris's slightly precarious place between JC his lover and Justin his best friend, and how he carefully walks that line when they're fighting.
November
The Bus Remedy
This is how you tell I was hopelessly corrupted by JuC Swap. This is more JuC; hurt/comfort, sick!Justin JuC. I like this sort of thing a lot when it's Lambs, too (and have really written my hurt/comfort Lambs, though it was up against stiff competition for favourite May story), but somehow this is sweeter because of the implied threemanbus, and because it does one of my favourite things to do to Justin - injects a bittersweet remembrance of the past and an attempt to recapture it. It's probably not something that has anything to do with reality (but, hi, fiction) - but the "lost youth" concept has something to do with it, and it's powerful and interesting to me. Justin's trying to recapture not just the group dynamic and his relationships with JC and Chris, but his own childhood. Sadly, it doesn't really work like that.
December
Park Guy part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
I don't have any choice for favourite December fics (in fact, I posted it just after midnight on the 1st, and it's my only December story so far), but I am very proud of this story. It's the longest I've ever written, and it's about - loneliness, again, and fear, and figuring out how to move past that and find a connection with someone. I liked the moving from Justin to Lance and back again, because it's a story about both of them; and because it's Justin who has the work to do, Justin whose mental blocks make it all almost not happen. I like this Justin, 'cause I poured myself into him somewhat, and he's tough and he copes but that doesn't mean things aren't hard. It's like that sometimes. And, yes. I like this story.
Um, the end.
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Date: 2008-12-12 12:07 pm (UTC)And yes, it's a really cool meme!
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