Re: What was your "Breakthrough Fic"?
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:19 am
I got a couple/few fics that I would consider my breakout fics.
The first is AWA: Journey of Discovery because of the amount of feedback I've gotten on it and usually if I get e-mails asking me when I'm going to update a fic it's almost always about that one.
These few others are breakout in terms of my writing. Giving In, I didn't get a lot of feedback on this one but I was still very proud of it because I felt I took Liz to a place that I hadn't written before. Liz is raped by Angelus a couple weeks into meeting him and instead of emotionally (or physically) fighting back, which is what I normally write, she retreats and as Angelus's power over her grows she separates herself more from the group until, in her mind anyway, he is the only thing she has left. She is hugely dependant on Angelus and her relationship with him is one where she has little to absolutely no power. Liz feels like Angelus is the only one worth anything and he becomes everything to her, no matter how twisted it is he's her everything. Although going as dark as I did wasn't the original idea for GI my muse was pointing me in that direction and I completely followed. There were moments where I was wondering if it was too much and I decided to not care, I was going with my muse wherever she took me on that one, no matter how dark it got.
Another is The One Left Behind, usually I try to get the main couple I have in mind for a fic together fairly quickly however with this one Liz still hasn't met Dean yet. Liz is going through the death of her parents and she's not bouncing back for a while and I wanted to write that part of her journey before meeting Dean. I wrote a fairly tight outline for TOLB, which I rarely do, and besides a few minor changes here and there I'm following the outline closely, again something I rarely do.
The first is AWA: Journey of Discovery because of the amount of feedback I've gotten on it and usually if I get e-mails asking me when I'm going to update a fic it's almost always about that one.
These few others are breakout in terms of my writing. Giving In, I didn't get a lot of feedback on this one but I was still very proud of it because I felt I took Liz to a place that I hadn't written before. Liz is raped by Angelus a couple weeks into meeting him and instead of emotionally (or physically) fighting back, which is what I normally write, she retreats and as Angelus's power over her grows she separates herself more from the group until, in her mind anyway, he is the only thing she has left. She is hugely dependant on Angelus and her relationship with him is one where she has little to absolutely no power. Liz feels like Angelus is the only one worth anything and he becomes everything to her, no matter how twisted it is he's her everything. Although going as dark as I did wasn't the original idea for GI my muse was pointing me in that direction and I completely followed. There were moments where I was wondering if it was too much and I decided to not care, I was going with my muse wherever she took me on that one, no matter how dark it got.
Another is The One Left Behind, usually I try to get the main couple I have in mind for a fic together fairly quickly however with this one Liz still hasn't met Dean yet. Liz is going through the death of her parents and she's not bouncing back for a while and I wanted to write that part of her journey before meeting Dean. I wrote a fairly tight outline for TOLB, which I rarely do, and besides a few minor changes here and there I'm following the outline closely, again something I rarely do.