Seven Days of Self-Promotion Meme – Day 1

[aadler]

 
snickfic instituted this meme, and others are following:

“I think that many of us like talking about our and linking to our work but are embarrassed to do so without excuse, so I am making us an excuse. Behold, the Seven Days of Self-Promotion Meme, inspired by another recent meme but with more categories, all obviously customizable as you see fit. Notice that the categories are very broad, so you can talk about your art or vids or meta or whatever if you don’t write fic.

The Days:
     1.

Something old:

“Old” is a relative term when it comes to fanfic. I think I qualify, though; I wrote my first Buffyfic fifteen years ago, so I have quite a selection to choose from.

I think I’ll go with “Solitaire Till Dawn”. This one was done in summer of 2000, and — like most of my stories at the time — didn’t feature any of the major BtVS characters. Back then, I focused almost solely on minor or peripheral characters, telling of events that took place ‘backstage’ of canon, and “Solitaire Till Dawn” was (IMNSHO) one of the better examples. It was perhaps the darkest fic I’ve ever done, and definitely unhappy, but it holds together in its structure.

If there’s any weakness there, it’s that almost the entirety of the story is focused on a non-canon character (unpowered human) dealing with finding himself in the middle of a nightmare (localized zombie apocalypse). Another possible weakness, though I did it by choice, is the voice of the narrator: deliberate, precise, almost bloodless, a man desperately trying to hang onto his sanity in a world that’s gone insane, and doing so by focused unemotionality.

“Solitaire Till Dawn” won a few awards Back In The Day, and I still think of it as one of my better efforts.
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     2. Something new
     3. Something you made for someone else
     4. Something you made just for yourself
     5. Something for a major fandom/pairing/character
     6. Something for a minor fandom/pairing/character
     7. Something you’re just really proud of

And then other people can read your discussion and follow your links to your fanworks (and maybe comment on them?) and you can read their discussion and follow their links and comment on them, and it will all be lovely.”

Comments

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

You've definitely piqued my curiosity, so it's going on my to read list. (Although I'm hopelessly behind with my reading at the moment...)

[aadler]

Well, thanks. If you do get to it, be sure and let me know what you think.