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Tell us the name of a favorite story you have written, and why is it your favorite.
Going through my fic, this was a really tough one to decide. I eventually had to pick two.
Overall, I would say To The Lord I Will Sing (Tanakh, Miriam and Deborah) and The Storyteller (Big Fish, Jenny Beamen Hill) are my two favorites.
The Song of Miriam and the Song of Deborah have fascinated me since I first studied them. They are, between them, two of the oldest fragments of text in the Tanakh (aka the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament). As patriarchal as the Bible can be, that's quite amazing. They also bear some superficial similarities, enough that some scholars claim they're actually two versions of what was originally the same song. I don't know about that, but Miriam is the only female prophet in the Tanakh and Deborah is the only female judge, and they were both awesome in their different ways. This story allowed me to play with the Biblical text, highlighting the similarities and differences between them, and the interplay of language. It also let me do interesting things with structure. I had so much fun writing it.
The Storyteller was a Yuletide fic, and an attempt to work through the theme of Big Fish (an excellent movie, you should all see it if you haven't) from a feminist perspective. The story is all about the unreliable narrator, as Will explores the fantastical stories his father told him as a child. But what I didn't understand until I wrote this story is that Will himself is an unreliable narrator. Making Jenny the main character of my story gave me a chance to explore the truth behind the stories, and the reasons people tell the stories they do, all while having fun with the lush world of the south shown in the movie.
Going through my fic, this was a really tough one to decide. I eventually had to pick two.
Overall, I would say To The Lord I Will Sing (Tanakh, Miriam and Deborah) and The Storyteller (Big Fish, Jenny Beamen Hill) are my two favorites.
The Song of Miriam and the Song of Deborah have fascinated me since I first studied them. They are, between them, two of the oldest fragments of text in the Tanakh (aka the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament). As patriarchal as the Bible can be, that's quite amazing. They also bear some superficial similarities, enough that some scholars claim they're actually two versions of what was originally the same song. I don't know about that, but Miriam is the only female prophet in the Tanakh and Deborah is the only female judge, and they were both awesome in their different ways. This story allowed me to play with the Biblical text, highlighting the similarities and differences between them, and the interplay of language. It also let me do interesting things with structure. I had so much fun writing it.
The Storyteller was a Yuletide fic, and an attempt to work through the theme of Big Fish (an excellent movie, you should all see it if you haven't) from a feminist perspective. The story is all about the unreliable narrator, as Will explores the fantastical stories his father told him as a child. But what I didn't understand until I wrote this story is that Will himself is an unreliable narrator. Making Jenny the main character of my story gave me a chance to explore the truth behind the stories, and the reasons people tell the stories they do, all while having fun with the lush world of the south shown in the movie.
