Last day. Steal this meme! I'd love to see my whole dwircle talking about their fanworks. <333

[kate]

Day 1. Discuss something old
Day 2. Discuss something new
Day 3. Discuss something made for someone else
Day 4. Discuss something made just for yourself
Day 5. Discuss something for a large fandom/pairing/character
Day 6. Discuss something for a small fandom/pairing/character
Day 7. Discuss something you're just really proud of

So, remember that writing meme that I didn't answer? I decided I was going to do audio answers to all the questions, because I had to drive home (I think this was from St. Louis?) and I needed something to do. There was a question, of the fic you’ve written, of which are you most proud? which I did actually manage to answer (in 15 minutes of meandering around the topic).

Click here to stream 15 minutes of me babbling about things I'm not proud of, things I am proud of, and why I'm proud of my Variations on a Theme of John Sheppard series.

Summary of the audio file, for those who don't want to listen to me babble in a kinda loud car: I'm generally relatively proud of things I do - the only things that I really am not proud of are some of the shorts I wrote for episodic_supernatural, sga_episodefic, and 15minuteficlets because they didn't have any structure or purpose. Even my shorts, like the Dean cross-dressing fic, are complete fics where I am trying to accomplish some particular objective. So anyway - that's to say, I'm proud of most of what I put out there.

I have a bunch of fics that I count as things I'm really proud of, and I'll read one of my old ones every once and a while and be really pleased with it, but one that always comes to mind when people ask me of things I'm proud of is Variations on a Theme of John Sheppard and its sequels. Basically I am proud of what I tried to accomplish and how I did it (with many, many spreadsheets). The last complete story, Passacaglia, is one of my favorite things ever - moving a story forward through multiple POVs and a variety of scenarios in their universe-hopping puddle jumper. I'm ridiculously proud of how it turned out.

Comments

[china_shop]

Yay! I've really enjoyed your meme answers (and now I have a couple of new things on my kindle, waiting for me). :-)

[mashimero]

Oooh yes, I remember reading that series before. I thought it was brilliant!

Your answer makes me wonder how many people post fanworks that they aren't proud of though? Personally, if I wasn't proud of something, and there was no deadline/obligation, then I probably wouldn't post it. Of course, not counting hindsight and styles changing and all that. But maybe these are the types of people who post fics labelled "OOC" and warning people off their fics?