Break My Fall - 3, 9, 12.
Thank you for indulging me though. <3
3: What’s your favorite line of narration?
One of these two, I think, if the question is favorite sentence. They're both from the same scene and I spent the whole (short) story trying to get into Mark's head, so I like the contrast.
"There's a fat globe of a wineglass on the hall table – with a coaster, obviously, but if she's carting the thing around like Amy used to with that grubby security blanket, that's probably not a great sign."
"Just his name, just once, before he crosses what's left of the space between them and throws everything to the wind for the first taste of her wine-stained mouth."
9: Were there any alternate versions of this fic?
Not this one. The Rachael's-birthday-fics tend to be one shots written in a single day/night ... Break My Fall ended up being posted in parts, but the actual story is just one big document. Oh. So I guess that counts, maybe. And then the line that inspired it - Derek's in love with another woman, and the only flight I could get was into Newark - originally made me think I'd write a lighter hearted story and it ... didn't turn out that way.
12: What do you like least about this fic?
A hard question for someone this vain. I kid ... mostly. I'm usually hypercritical of my writing, but this piece is one that holds up really well for me. Maybe because writing it all at once means it's more consistent. In terms of what I like the least: there's a minor inconsistency that I noticed when I first completed it and I couldn't get around it without changing things I had gotten attached to, so I left it and hoped no one would notice. And I actually like this story a lot (somewhere Summer, may she rest in sarcasm, is laughing at me) but I think the first chapter is my least favorite. It felt necessary, but it may be one of those things that works better for me than for someone reading it.
