Lost in a good book (or fanfiction)

[charliesmum]

Gakked from ligia_elena

Rec-Go-Round: Rec me one story you've written that you're proud of, any genre, here in my LJ. Then go forth and ask the same in yours.

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[fourthage.livejournal.com]

I don't really write fanfiction, but I've been having fun doing some drabbles in the Naruto fandom. I think The Long and Short of It is the best I've done, but it relies pretty heavily on the reader already being familiar with the series (especially the last line). I'd be interested to know how it works for someone completely outside the fandom.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I quite liked it. I don't know who those people are, but I like the concept of freedom in the short hair. Of gaining confidence. Very poetic, too.

I like drabbles. They are really challanging.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Oh good. The best drabbles should work without prior knowledge, of course, but I was definitely writing to an audience there.

You didn't ask, but I'm going to explain the last line anyway. There's a chapter where Sakura's teammates are both badly injured and she has to protect them from their enemies. She's badly outmatched and ends up being held down by her hair. She thinks about how her teammates have always protected her and how she's never done anything but watch their backs and let them, decides to hell with it, chops off her hair to free herself, and tells her teammates to watch *her* back this time. It's a nice moment.

[atlantel.livejournal.com]

In English, I have only written a couple of 100 word drabbles. Then, my favorite one is Next Grand Adventure (http://ashwinder.sycophanthex.com/viewstory.php?sid=13481) I can't say I'm proud of it, but I like it and it's better than my long forgotten (and stupid I might add) WIP that is still up at OWL (too much work to proofread a story of mine (and takes me too long time. Now, I just write drabbles, even if I promised a OS to someone *sigh* what did I think that day? -Sorry for the babbling!

Edit: wish there was an edit button. My link wasn't the good one.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Aw, sad. I wasn't sure who was speaking, but I'm guessing it is Snape. Am I right? I wish I could read French so I could read your other stuff. As it is I'd probably only get one word in a hundred!

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

I tend to think first of my longer fics, and of those, I'm proudest of my Smallville story, The Empty World -- and it may be the one most comprehensible to someone not familiar with the fandom. It has too many adverbs, true, but I think it has a tightly constructed plot and some emotional punch.

Of the one-shots, I have a soft spot for Lost and Found (Charmed Chris-angst that depends a lot on knowledge of the show).

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I started to read the Smallville story, I don't know that show very well, but I liked it so far. I like the whole alternate universe concept.

I liked the Charmed one. I know that show a bit - I never did know what the whole point was of Wyatt being evil, but I know who Chris is. It was a sweet story.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yeah, all my Charmed fics are centered around Chris -- he's the reason I started watching the show. Just wandered by the WB one night and started watching the episode that "Lost and Found" is reflecting back on, as it happens, and I got hooked.

I have it on my "To do" list now to rent Labyrinth and then read your story! (Much easier to catch up on a movie fandom than a TV show.)

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

...wow, this sounds like an amazingly cool meme :) I'll bite. As stories go, the one I'd call dearest to me is actually an extended series called Book of Hours. I wrote it after seeing a B action flick that had an amazing emotional core and surprisingly decent acting, Toy Soldiers - it was a classic case of in medias res; I needed to know what came before the film in these characters' lives, and what came after. There was no fanfic out there at the time, so I started writing, and two years later, I had about twenty short pieces in sequence leading up to the film and a novel-length postlude that occurs after the film. I hardly expect anyone to get the context without having seen the film, but...well, you asked *wry grin*

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I read a bit of it. Don't know the story at all, but I like your writing. What is the movie about?

[ajodasso.livejournal.com]

I wrote up a synopsis here :)

[ladyiapetus]

Once a long time ago, I tried to write Robotech fic. My only attempt to make it to publication was Biography, which was intended to be a reflection on the character of Exedore but only got up to two chapters.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

That's a nice story. Although I have no idea what Robotech is. :)

[agatha-s.livejournal.com]

Chocolate, Mandrake And Moss (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/agatha_s/CMAM01a.html)
Fleur Delacour and Bill Weasley were having ice cream at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour when an incident with a hag buying gingerbread biscuits caused Fleur to show a side of herself Bill hadn't seen before.
(Bill/Fleur, PG, romance/humour)

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

That was beautiful. I think you totally captured the essence of what JKR is trying to convey about the inequality in the wizarding world.

Lovely. Thanks!

[agatha-s.livejournal.com]

Thank you!