Fic Highlights Meme

[feng_shui_house]

AFTER I got through sorting them out, it occurred to me that the links go straight to the stories, so you won't see any of the warning cuts. I am way behind schedule today so am not going back to check them out again. Most of the stories are slash to some degree of explicit. I am lousy at choosing favorite children, so some categories have multiple results. Most of the stories I chose are B7. I'm not sure whether I wrote more DV fic, but simply forgot to put them in memories. I'm very scrambled.

My favorite story this year (of my own):
As I reread them I kept saying this one, no this one...
So here's a short, untitled one I quite liked which didn't fit any of the other categories. But it's far from my favorite. Possibly 'Shrine' is... link to that is at the end, as it's also my 'theme' story.

My best story this year:
Possibly 'Urban Panther' it's got sex, character, backstory, angst and foretelling.

Story most underappreciated by the universe, in my opinion:
Possibly 'The Prison of the Kiss' (It's more of a prose-poem than a story, but I really liked the 'emotional texture' of it. This was also one of the easiest stories I'd written this year.)

Story I kind of wish I'd never written:
'Animal Nature' (Avon still hasn't forgiven me for the ham joke)
Or possibly 'Night Vision' (I feel so sorry for poor Avon--it's so hopeless)

Most fun story:
Possibly 'Love me or leave me'
Or Possibly 'Aren't you glad you use Avon; Don't you Wish Everyone Did?'
Or the DV fic 'The Patagonese Penguin'
Or the DV fic 'Two of an Unkind'

Most sexy story:
Possibly 'The Choice that is no Choice' a remix of one of Shimere277's fic

Story with single sexiest moment:
Possibly 'Cold Comfort' (I write a lot of sex scenes, so have a really hard time choosing.)

Story with single sweetest moment:
Possibly 'Small Beginnings'
Possibly 'Food of the Pods'

Most intentionally telling story:
Possibly 'The Twisted Butterfly'

"Holy crap, that's wrong, even for you" story:
Possibly 'Crack of Doom'
Or more likely 'Blake by Ben Darrow'
Or even 'A Real Man'
Or possibly 'Mad Dogs and Rebels' in which Soolin cheerfully watches Avon's gang-rape.
Or Possibly 'Angel?'
Or Possibly 'Some things never really change' a B7/DV with alien penguins.
Or maybe 'Rum, Sodomy and the Eyelash' another DV

Hardest story to write:
Possibly 'Unstable Sun' I had great plans for it, but wound up making it mainly a synopsis because it wouldn't gel into a single coherent narrative.

Easiest story to write:
Possibly 'The Prison of the Kiss'(It's more of a prose-poem than a story, but I really liked the 'emotional texture' of it.)
Or 'The Affair of the Lone Banana' (but really is far too short to call a story)
or Possibly 'Solitaire'

This year's theme and the story that demonstrates it most:
Never give up, there is always a way.'Shrine'

Things I have learned in writing:
The more ambitious and great and perfect an idea seems, the harder it usually is to write the story.

Things I really appreciate in writing fic:
Getting out of this reality into one where I control the horizontal and the vertical. But especially the Horizontal.