My best SGA fic ...

[rubygirl29.livejournal.com]

I was scrolling through my SGA stories and I was thinking about my favorite one. I've decided this is the one I love the most:

Golgotha , which is really a team fic about Lorne. It was inspired by the lovely Promises by bluflamingo.

Why is this my favorite? I think because I succeeded in writing a story that captured all the characters well. It's not a slash fic, which was a bit of a surprise, but it is about courage, faith, and the healing power of friendship.

Lorne has to overcome the physical and emotional effects of captivity and torture, plus his own self-doubts. There's a lot of hurt/comfort, team, and friendship. Most of all, I hope I did the lovely character of Evan Lorne justice.

So, fellow writers, what story is your favorite of the ones you've written?

Comments

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm going to have to check that out--it sounds wonderful! I haven't read a lot of Lorne-based stories, but I've always liked him as a character, and I love me some hurt-comfort fic. :-)

Oh boy, I'm not sure I can pick a favorite of mine. I am very partial to Second Verse (http://archiveofourown.org/works/64759) because John and Rodney were *so* messed up in that universe and yet finding each other allowed them to heal. But I'm also quite fond of A Lesson in Evil (http://archiveofourown.org/works/177208) because it was such a departure for me (writing in first person POV, that is) and it was so fun seeing the team through Watson's eyes. :-)

Shoot, I meant to comment on this at your LJ rather than here--oops! :-)

[logans_girl2001]

My favorite SGA story I've written is Never a Forever Thing. It was written for the MSF auction for David Hewlett's birthday back in 2008. It's my favorite because it was the first time I took a character who sees himself as mostly, if not 100%, straight and showed him realizing that he's not as straight as he thought and that he craves the release that comes from being forced to submit.

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds interesting because I rarely read find anything that has Rodney being forced to submit--or being convinced he was mostly straight,either. Cool!

[logans_girl2001]

It's John who is forced to submit and convinced he's not totally straight.

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see! I just assumed from the fact it was for the b-day auction that you meant Rodney! But yes, I can totally see how John is the type of character who gets something out of being forced to submit. Definitely. :-)

[tdancinghands.livejournal.com]

Although I mostly write slash, the two or three stories which I happen to think are my best, aren't slash, oddly enough. Of course they are Radek centric, but Homing (http://archiveofourown.org/works/401262) -a Radek POV covering his experince during the events in "The Return, pts I & II- and Reason Enough (http://archiveofourown.org/works/397042/chapters/653121) -a speculation about how Rodney spent all those years in "Last Man", with a dash of Czech history thrown in- are the stories I'm proudest of.

[ltklo.livejournal.com]

Love Radek. I had read and enjoyed Homing. Thanks for pointing to "Reason Enough", I'll check that out.

[falcon-horus.livejournal.com]

Pick a favorite - oh well, that's kinda hard, cause I like almost all the fics I've written for some reason or another. There are those that I wish I never posted, those that wrote at the very beginning of my writing-era... but that's probably cause when I go back to them I see all those beginner's mistakes. I was such a total n00b! All part of the learning process, right... right? =P

Anyway, I guess there's perhaps one that I'm moderately proud of (and when I say moderate I mean this in the most positive sense of the word, considering I have a very low self-esteem to start with), and it's my entry to the rarewomen exchange ficathon-thing. My recipient was an author I look up to, so that did add some pressure, just a wee bit more.

Anyhow... the story turned out a little different than I envisioned it (but that's usually the case with me - my muse is fickle like that).
It's a Kate/Elizabeth story, which is one of havocthecat's favorite pairings. It's told from Kate's POV, features a whole bunch of other characters but mainly Laura, Teyla, Katie - Radek - Rodney - John - Ronon - Evan for a bit, the Athosians, some Athosian tradition invented by yours truly.

Kissed By Fire (http://archiveofourown.org/works/1565543)
Summary: Kate flies a jumper on a mission around the planet, with Laura as co-pilot, Radek peering over his computerscreen in the back and Elizabeth around for moral support. And in the evening Teyla expects them to be on time for the Remembrance Feast.