1. What was your biggest writing- or fanfic-related accomplishment of 2008?
Just writing anything. My muse was dormant for a looong time (okay so I had an awfully good excuse for a while, but then after that...just couldn't seem to make myself write anything. So, my biggest writing accomplishment this year was simply to get my pen on the paper and writing something. (Or okay, putting my fingers on the keyboard and typing, but you get the idea...)
2. What do you feel was the best piece of writing you did this year? It can be a whole story or just a certain chapter or scene. Give us a link or, if it's a really short excerpt (like a paragraph), post it here.
This year...I'm really partial to "His Holiday", but perhaps that's because it's the first solo story I did this year. It does need a little polishing up (I re-read it and am a bit embarassed at a few things a beta reader surely would have called me on, but overall I like how it turned out) I thought it was a bit more original than a lot of my other stuff (I admit that I tend to have a very similar theme to a lot of my stories, and this one was a bit different...)
http://www.absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9460 "Oh joy. It’s that special time of year again, and all the little hospital ‘elves’ are scurrying about in ridiculous outfits and planning some grand Sacred Heart Holiday--not party, oh no, not a party according to the fliers that are posted every two feet along the corridor walls in case someone somewhere somehow misses the seven or eight posted at every single nurses’ station or the twelve in the cafeteria, so no, not a party--Fiesta!
I don’t want to sound cliché or anything, but Bah Humbug."
3. Which of your own stories are you most proud of, and why? (This doesn't have to be one written in 2008).
Of all my stories, I'm probably most proud of "Well...Maybe One Power". This will probably surprise a lot of people because well...I think it's the one story I've ever written that got only one "review" on the multiple sites that it was posted on. People either didn't read it, or for whatever reason didn't like it, BUT to me I thought it was one of my better ones. It was a more "original" story, and I thought it was one of the funnier stories I've ever written (with some amusing "angst" thrown in).
4. Give us a link to one of your own stories that you feel is undiscovered or underappreciat ed, and tell us why you think it's worthy of being read.
My Perfect Day
http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=9336 is one I'm co-writing, and I think it's largely undiscovered because it's in a small fandom (Scrubs). I think it's got a lot of the elements that people like(d) about my BSB fic Ground Zero (suspence, angst, and yet mixed with quite a bit of humor), so I think that if given the chance it, too, would be appreciated.
5. Switching over to praise for other writers, give us a link to someone ELSE'S story that you feel is undiscovered or underappreciat ed. Again, tell us why you think this story is worthy of being read.
I'm not sure that I'd say it's undiscovered exactly, but I do think underappreciat
ed is Honey's No Such Thing as the Boogeyman
http://absolutechaos.net/viewstory.php?sid=8549. I think, again, it's a matter of it being in a not-much-represented fandom on this site (though the Supernatural section of the site does appear to be getting a little bit more popular of late. Yay Supernatural!) I'm not a big fanfic reader these days (sorry ya'll) but this one grabbed my attention and kept me reading through the whole story (which with my attention span--or lack thereof--is pretty impressive). There's a lot of twists, lots of suspence. It keeps you guessing without ever doing anything unbelievable (for the fandom). Plus, one of my favorite features, is that it has bits of humor strewn throughout. And she does an excellent job keeping the Winchester boys in character.
6. What was the best story you discovered in 2008? Provide a link, and tell why you liked it.
Again I'll admit that I haven't read a whole lot this year. On this site, I'd go with the aforementioned story by Honey. Counting other sites, I really enjoyed My Rescue Blues by SkyPad (written in 2006-7, but I only discovered it in late 2008...as always I'm late to the party!)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3281868/1/My_Rescue_Blues7. Name an AC author who impressed you this year (with their writing, their updating, whatever it may be LOL), and tell us why.
Once again I have to admit I didn't really read much here on AC this year, but I'll say that Mare and Julilly highly impress me with the way they've kept this site running rather smoothly and keeping the discussions flowing, etc, here on the boards. And their writing, of course, always impresses me as well! So thanks you two!
8. Do you have any writing- or fanfic-related resolutions for 2009? If so, what are they?
I do. It's to write at least a little bit every single day--even if it's just a paragraph or two. While the end-goal is to finish all my in-progress fics and to finish my original novel, I've discovered this year that trying to force myself to work on a story just because I haven't updated it in a while just doesn't work. It's not until I let myself start writing new things that I started being able to work on my in-progress things again, so...my resolution is just to write and let the rest of it come as it does. (Very zen, I know...)
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