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greyias has a great meme:
List one, three, or five of your favorite stories that you have written and why they are your favorite.
Members of this author's flist: list one, three, or five of your favorite stories by this author and why they are your favorite. Then copy this meme and post it on your own journal for the same.
Okay, so I list some, thus possibly conning some of you into reading stories of mine you haven't yet! Then you tell me how good you thought mypoem was stories were! (I love Douglas Adams; sorry if I've used that joke before.) What a wonderful meme! I'll cheat, too, and not mention the ones that got nominations for the most recent fan awards. I'm pretty pleased with those, as well, but they've gotten more attention than my other Stargate stories--though I don't think "My Dinner with Vala" was at all my best, and that one actually won a category!
SG-1
"A Time for Killing": I experimented with point of view in this one, and I'm still happy with the results. It started as a joke. I wrote an epilogue for "Menace," telling my beta reader,redbyrd_sgfic that it's from Janet's point of view because we don't hear enough from her (that epilogue, by the way, is "...and a Time for Healing"--no, it doesn't count towards my five, but I'm shameless in linking when I can). Then I said, "And there's another point of view that really gets neglected...!" I was joking, but then I decided to give it a try, and it ended up being better than the Janet epilogue.
"Diplomacy" maybe isn't my favorite among the ones I've written, but I'm very pleased with it. Very few other people seem to be, which makes me perhaps a little more protective of it. Maybe it's because it's early season 9, with Vala and without Sam, but I'm very pleased with the world I created. I actually wrote it before I started studying Old Norse, and I'm really fudging a lot of the cultural stuff, but I think it works anyway. I also created my own team, SG-8, for whom I keep meaning to write more (before I forget all the things I know about them that didn't make it into this story). I'm quite fond of SG-8.
"Acquainted with the Night": I had to change my website's introduction when I wrote this! I always said I wouldn't write an alternate universe, and I changed it to only writing "canon AU"! I loved the episode ("The Road Not Taken") and wanted to do more with Sam's thoughts and with the whole world they created. But I actually started with the ending and what became the epilogue, because I wanted Sam to talk to her friends about what had happened--especially Vala. We didn't get enough Sam-Vala friendship in the show. I also got to write Sam with an alternate Rodney McKay--to whom her alternate had been married! I very much enjoyed writing this story.
SGA
"Haar". I have StatCounter. I should probably have it display, so that you know I'm watching you (;-) ), but to be honest, I'm embarrassed that my numbers are so low. I feel like Raymond Gunne in SG-1 "200": "Have you seen this site? I mean, it's insane. Apparently, they get dozens of hits a month...!" I've gotten dozens of hits. Since I put in StatCounter, on Feb. 11, over six months ago. "Haar" has gotten 51 hits. Total. Period. And it's one of my proudest pieces of work. I don't do angst; I tend to get overwhelmed by it, and I try not to read stories that get too angsty. I can't stand Russian novels. I don't even like Samuel Beckett or Eugene Ionesco because I find them too depressing!
Yet I was so upset by the episodes through "No Man's Land" and what they did with Carson that I had to deal with it. In the end, I think I walked the fine line between despair and enough hope to be realistic but not too much hope. I don't know if my summary is bad, or if people are put off by the mention of Kate Heightmeyer (yes, I'm sneaking another one in here: my absolute lowest number of hits for anything, even the little tidbits I did quickly on LJ and later posted to my website, is for "Every Day", where Rodney talks with Kate about "Sunday". 34. That's it. I've had that story up over a year.) People aren't reading "Haar." I'm proud of it, though!
"The Unrelenting Past" is the SGA story of which I'm proudest. I've got comedy, drama, and even fight scenes. I didn't know if I could write fight scenes! I've got Carson and the whole team, I've got a new world that I created, and I've got ethical dilemmas and culture shock. I'm very pleased with the story. I want to write more like it: a story with its own plot, with original characters and settings but a lot of our (my) favorite characters too, a combination of moods.
So this has been a dreadfully long and self-indulgent post. If you like any of my stories, please post about one or two of them! (You do not have to do five.) I'm curious to know who likes what and why, because it's clear enough that the things I like when I write a story aren't always the things readers like when they read--or choose not to read--my work.
greyias has a great meme:List one, three, or five of your favorite stories that you have written and why they are your favorite.
Members of this author's flist: list one, three, or five of your favorite stories by this author and why they are your favorite. Then copy this meme and post it on your own journal for the same.
Okay, so I list some, thus possibly conning some of you into reading stories of mine you haven't yet! Then you tell me how good you thought my
SG-1
"A Time for Killing": I experimented with point of view in this one, and I'm still happy with the results. It started as a joke. I wrote an epilogue for "Menace," telling my beta reader,
redbyrd_sgfic that it's from Janet's point of view because we don't hear enough from her (that epilogue, by the way, is "...and a Time for Healing"--no, it doesn't count towards my five, but I'm shameless in linking when I can). Then I said, "And there's another point of view that really gets neglected...!" I was joking, but then I decided to give it a try, and it ended up being better than the Janet epilogue."Diplomacy" maybe isn't my favorite among the ones I've written, but I'm very pleased with it. Very few other people seem to be, which makes me perhaps a little more protective of it. Maybe it's because it's early season 9, with Vala and without Sam, but I'm very pleased with the world I created. I actually wrote it before I started studying Old Norse, and I'm really fudging a lot of the cultural stuff, but I think it works anyway. I also created my own team, SG-8, for whom I keep meaning to write more (before I forget all the things I know about them that didn't make it into this story). I'm quite fond of SG-8.
"Acquainted with the Night": I had to change my website's introduction when I wrote this! I always said I wouldn't write an alternate universe, and I changed it to only writing "canon AU"! I loved the episode ("The Road Not Taken") and wanted to do more with Sam's thoughts and with the whole world they created. But I actually started with the ending and what became the epilogue, because I wanted Sam to talk to her friends about what had happened--especially Vala. We didn't get enough Sam-Vala friendship in the show. I also got to write Sam with an alternate Rodney McKay--to whom her alternate had been married! I very much enjoyed writing this story.
SGA
"Haar". I have StatCounter. I should probably have it display, so that you know I'm watching you (;-) ), but to be honest, I'm embarrassed that my numbers are so low. I feel like Raymond Gunne in SG-1 "200": "Have you seen this site? I mean, it's insane. Apparently, they get dozens of hits a month...!" I've gotten dozens of hits. Since I put in StatCounter, on Feb. 11, over six months ago. "Haar" has gotten 51 hits. Total. Period. And it's one of my proudest pieces of work. I don't do angst; I tend to get overwhelmed by it, and I try not to read stories that get too angsty. I can't stand Russian novels. I don't even like Samuel Beckett or Eugene Ionesco because I find them too depressing!
Yet I was so upset by the episodes through "No Man's Land" and what they did with Carson that I had to deal with it. In the end, I think I walked the fine line between despair and enough hope to be realistic but not too much hope. I don't know if my summary is bad, or if people are put off by the mention of Kate Heightmeyer (yes, I'm sneaking another one in here: my absolute lowest number of hits for anything, even the little tidbits I did quickly on LJ and later posted to my website, is for "Every Day", where Rodney talks with Kate about "Sunday". 34. That's it. I've had that story up over a year.) People aren't reading "Haar." I'm proud of it, though!
"The Unrelenting Past" is the SGA story of which I'm proudest. I've got comedy, drama, and even fight scenes. I didn't know if I could write fight scenes! I've got Carson and the whole team, I've got a new world that I created, and I've got ethical dilemmas and culture shock. I'm very pleased with the story. I want to write more like it: a story with its own plot, with original characters and settings but a lot of our (my) favorite characters too, a combination of moods.
So this has been a dreadfully long and self-indulgent post. If you like any of my stories, please post about one or two of them! (You do not have to do five.) I'm curious to know who likes what and why, because it's clear enough that the things I like when I write a story aren't always the things readers like when they read--or choose not to read--my work.
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