Those are good questions! Let's see ... a story that "out there" for me? That's a difficult one. Maybe Slipcovers (http://house-wilson.livejournal.com/634973.html#cutid1), because after all these years, I think the hook is still shocking, not only because it's such a taboo subject but because as fans we all feel we "know" Wilson, and the thought of something like that happening to him -- and as a child, no less -- is upsetting. And the story did upset a lot of people when I posted it.
A personal favorite, or something that I'm really happy with -- 44 Candles (http://housefic.livejournal.com/1389159.html#cutid1) is one of those. There's a lot me in that story -- especially the setting of the Texas Gulf Coast. I really enjoyed taking Danny (or David, as he still was then), plunking him down in this place so essentially different from New Jersey (but perhaps not so different, with an ocean), and making him an observant Jew, which I definitely don't think the rest of Wilson's family is.
A story that dragged itself along is easy -- that would be A Cure in the Country (http://nightdog-barks.livejournal.com/1433397.html), which I started in 2008 and finished in 2010. And it's not even that long! I think Sins of the Fathers (http://nightdog-barks.livejournal.com/1020519.html#cutid1) is a close runner-up. I can't remember exactly how long that took to write, but I know it was many months. Maybe a year.
A story that I love that seemed to fly under the radar ... Carry Me Home (http://house-wilson.livejournal.com/3387738.html). I was so happy with it, and I posted it to housefic, and I don't think a single person read it. Or if they did, they didn't comment. It's a humbling reminder that no matter how pleased as an author you are with a story, it's not necessarily what people want to read. :-D
I can't remember who came up with the "story arc" approach for the Distress Call 'verse. Maybe it was a carryover from Aftershocks, because we as a group sort of "fell into" that style and adopted it after we discovered it worked so well for a long series.
Edited to fix tags. D'oh!
Also edited to clarify a point. I did post Carry Me Home to house_wilson, where it did get read (and received some lovely comments). It was just housefic where it sank without a trace. Which surprised me at the time because it's a gen fic, and sometimes gen fics are more popular on housefic than on house_wilson. *g*
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A personal favorite, or something that I'm really happy with -- 44 Candles (http://housefic.livejournal.com/1389159.html#cutid1) is one of those. There's a lot me in that story -- especially the setting of the Texas Gulf Coast. I really enjoyed taking Danny (or David, as he still was then), plunking him down in this place so essentially different from New Jersey (but perhaps not so different, with an ocean), and making him an observant Jew, which I definitely don't think the rest of Wilson's family is.
A story that dragged itself along is easy -- that would be A Cure in the Country (http://nightdog-barks.livejournal.com/1433397.html), which I started in 2008 and finished in 2010. And it's not even that long! I think Sins of the Fathers (http://nightdog-barks.livejournal.com/1020519.html#cutid1) is a close runner-up. I can't remember exactly how long that took to write, but I know it was many months. Maybe a year.
A story that I love that seemed to fly under the radar ... Carry Me Home (http://house-wilson.livejournal.com/3387738.html). I was so happy with it, and I posted it to
I can't remember who came up with the "story arc" approach for the Distress Call 'verse. Maybe it was a carryover from Aftershocks, because we as a group sort of "fell into" that style and adopted it after we discovered it worked so well for a long series.
Edited to fix tags. D'oh!
Also edited to clarify a point. I did post Carry Me Home to