6. First fic/pairing you wrote for? (If no pairing, describe the plot)
It was for Les Miserables, a very gentle G-rated Enjolras/Combeferre fic.
12. A fic you wish you had written better, and why?
Back when I was first starting to write/post fanfiction (fully ten years ago now), I tried my hand at posting a chapter fic as I wrote it (something I have made a vow to myself never to do again). It's a little overly complicated, and obviously I write much better prose than I did back then, but otherwise it's not that it was bad, just that I never finished it and now I don't even know what the end was going to be. I'm sad about that because I know there were people who were enjoying it and they deserved an ending.
Other than that, if I really feel I'm not doing justice to the story I want to tell, I'll usually lose enthusiasm long before I actually finish and never publish it at all. I do have some WIPs that will probably always be WIPs, though, and I look through them sometimes and wish I was better able to execute them.
15. Your guilty writing pleasure?
I've seen some criticism recently of fics (particularly AUs) where the characters fall in love too fast and everything is too perfect, and I understand where people who don't like that are coming from. I like really well thought out and realistic romances too- but sometimes I also really like the fairy tale set up where the characters just know and they live happily ever after even if they've only known each other for three days. I would say that letting realism go when the impulse strikes is probably my guilty pleasure, because while sometimes I want to keep things true to life, other times I don't and I always feel like I have to apologize for that.
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Date: 2015-07-06 04:57 am (UTC)It was for Les Miserables, a very gentle G-rated Enjolras/Combeferre fic.
12. A fic you wish you had written better, and why?
Back when I was first starting to write/post fanfiction (fully ten years ago now), I tried my hand at posting a chapter fic as I wrote it (something I have made a vow to myself never to do again). It's a little overly complicated, and obviously I write much better prose than I did back then, but otherwise it's not that it was bad, just that I never finished it and now I don't even know what the end was going to be. I'm sad about that because I know there were people who were enjoying it and they deserved an ending.
Other than that, if I really feel I'm not doing justice to the story I want to tell, I'll usually lose enthusiasm long before I actually finish and never publish it at all. I do have some WIPs that will probably always be WIPs, though, and I look through them sometimes and wish I was better able to execute them.
15. Your guilty writing pleasure?
I've seen some criticism recently of fics (particularly AUs) where the characters fall in love too fast and everything is too perfect, and I understand where people who don't like that are coming from. I like really well thought out and realistic romances too- but sometimes I also really like the fairy tale set up where the characters just know and they live happily ever after even if they've only known each other for three days. I would say that letting realism go when the impulse strikes is probably my guilty pleasure, because while sometimes I want to keep things true to life, other times I don't and I always feel like I have to apologize for that.