In
Their Own Words
26
September 2001
This
is the section where some of our favorite authors will share with
us (and you) their favorite stories from among their own work. The
lovely and talented Pix mentioned this idea to me in an e-mail,
saying how she thought it might be an interesting contrast with
the typical recommendations lists so prevalent on fan fic websites.
I,
of course, immediately wondered the same thing, and so, here we
are. This will be a weekly feature, with past Authors' Picks being
archived on a page called "From
the Desk of..."
So,
let us begin...
It's
the lovely and talented Donna Bevan's turn. Donna is a renowned
writer in the X-Men and Roswell fandoms, and she can seriously bring
the angst. And the smut. <g> Click on the name of the story
within the text below if you'd like to read it.
Donna
says...
My
favorite story in any fandom is a recent one I did for Roswell
titled "Aperture."
I'm not sure why, but there's something about it that rings very
true to the characters for me. It's angsty and horrible and not
a happy story in pretty much any respect. In fact, it's very much
an emotional worst case scenario for Michael and Isabel.
Of
course, as an AngstGrrl, that's a theme that greatly appeals to
me - when you've lost everything, where do you begin to rebuild?
Can you? Do you even care enough to try? The idea started with that
question and was urged onward by some spoilers for the end of the
second season. Before I knew it, I'd inserted some sort of elaborately
strange photography analogy, and there it was.
It's
not a story that's garnered a lot of feedback for me. That honor
definitely goes to the Adaptations series from X-Men moviefic. But
I still feel like "Aperture"
was far better work than anything else I've written, fic-wise. Like
a lot of writers, I tend to remain emotionally unaffected by my
own work, instead viewing it with a critical eye and wondering what
I could have done to make it better. But I'm totally happy with
"Aperture."
I read it and I cry. That's the highest recommendation I can give
any piece of writing, and I'm beyond proud of this fic because of
that.
~~*~~
So
there you have it — Donna, in her own words...
~~*~~
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