AO3 Archiving progress.

My page at Archive of Our Own

So yeah, so far I've posted just about every fanfic I've written except for the:

1) Hopelessly incomplete dead-fics that can't be enjoyed as a series of short stories.
2) The stuff I wrote way back in high-school that is either exceptionally bratty/exceptionally bad.
3) The really recent stuff.
4) Things that are still buried in the back of this journal that I totally forgot about.

And that's up to about 42 fics right now... so yeah.

Internal dialogue about writing a Very Special Fic

Note: This entry contains discussion of a specific "issue" fanfic, and the deliberate thought processes that were involved in creating it. It's sort of in response to this post by princessofgeeks. The "issue" discussed and used as an example is suicide, and thus could possibly be triggering for some.


While I think a lot of fic can really work as "issue fic" which deals with a specific Important Issue, or "meta fic" which is really about talking about the canon at a meta level, there's really one fic I really deliberately wrote to be "meta fic" and that also kind of doubles as "issue fic."

"What Is and What Should Never Be"

Basic summary: After the death of her father, and a poorly-timed round of the Liar Game, Nao attempts suicide, and Akiyama has to prevent history from repeating itself.

( Behind the Fanfiction )

So, I don't think it was really that clear-cut when I was actually writing it, but within the process of writing it (as well as deliberately keeping the style very stark) those were all issues/concerns/decisions that came up in choosing what direction the story would go into. I'm still sorting out if/how this is really any different from how I approach more 'trivial' fic, besides the extra time and thought that went into its conception.