This Time Round, principally. It being a shared Universe with a low barrier to entry, it was a good starting point for an aspiring fanwriter: a toybox with all the toys, so to speak. And the Storytime setting provides a library of existing plots to act as the backbone of a fic.
I think you have to take some of the blame credit, too; without your encouragement and feedback I'd probably never have got beyond the occasional drabble.
Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
As for why I do it — for the most part, I write (or should that be 'wrote'?) fanfic to get stories I want(ed) to read. So if I still want to reread them, hopefully they fulfil that criterion. I've sometimes wished I could drink from the Lethe-like fountain mentioned in The Great Divorce, to see if I'd still like the stories if I didn't know I'd written them, but that's a bit beyond current science.
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This Time Round, principally. It being a shared Universe with a low barrier to entry, it was a good starting point for an aspiring fanwriter: a toybox with all the toys, so to speak. And the Storytime setting provides a library of existing plots to act as the backbone of a fic.
I think you have to take some of the
blamecredit, too; without your encouragement and feedback I'd probably never have got beyond the occasional drabble.Looking at my works, it seems to correspond pretty much to length — if I sort my fics in decreasing order of length, most of the fics on that page are ones I've reread. The winner is probably Ac Velut in Somnis.
As for why I do it — for the most part, I write (or should that be 'wrote'?) fanfic to get stories I want(ed) to read. So if I still want to reread them, hopefully they fulfil that criterion. I've sometimes wished I could drink from the Lethe-like fountain mentioned in The Great Divorce, to see if I'd still like the stories if I didn't know I'd written them, but that's a bit beyond current science.