Anghraine

steinbecks responded to this post:

what would you say is your favorite fic you’ve ever written?

I replied:

Oh, thanks for asking! Hmm. I’ve written well over 200 (though most of that number are quite short), so it’s hard to say, and I’m never sure whether to go more with the “my best work IMO” sort of favorite or the “dear to my heart” kind. But, to cheat slightly, off the top of my head:

Favorite One-Shot: probably The Letters of Elizabeth Darcy, 1796-1798 (AO3). I had the idea and then I wrote the idea and what I wrote is what I meant to write. It’s not OMG MY BABY!!1! but it’s probably the fic that I’m most straightforwardly satisfied with.

Favorite Multi-Chaptered Fic (WIP): if we’re going with personal affection, it probably—despite everything—has got to be my f!Luke series, The Adventures of Lucy Skywalker (AO3), which began with Ten Facts About (Everyone Except) Lucy Skywalker (AO3), and is currently stuck 20 chapters and some months past ESB in The Jedi and the Sith Lord (AO3).

Favorite Multi-Chaptered Fic (Complete): relatedly, my f!Darcy/m!Elizabeth retelling of P&P, First Impressions. Very definitely my baby :D

Tagged: #the éowyn/f!faramir fic almost squeaked in (i am nothing if not predictable!!!) but very little surpasses the lucyverse for me

I had planned to write a Mrs Gardiner POV, and ... did struggle through about two pages of it, but I missed Elizabeth's and was like ... eh, maybe I'll switch back.

I tried Elizabeth's this morning and promptly wrote over four pages of the next chapter. *\0/*

I keep trying to think of alternate titles for tolerably well acquainted, and there's just nothing coming to mind.

"Tolerably well acquainted" itself comes from Austen's description of Elizabeth's offscreen realization that she loves Darcy. The original story concept was that it'd be fun and interesting to put that development onscreen, so it seemed natural enough to name it after that moment, but ... meh.

It's flowing a lot better today. :)

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I stole it from tree , because I want to feel accomplished despite having not written anything. (And also, I'm procrastinating on reading the second half of Mill on the Floss, which scarred me in my sensitive adolescence.)

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