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Hi Pia! What work is you think is your best one? In your opinion, not counting readers response, kudos and so on, which work you are the prouder of?

I don't know, anon!

The works I feel are my best are not actually the works I'm always proudest of. The works I love the most are not actually my best. So here we go:

The work I think I've written that is my best: The Ice Plague (particularly books 2 & 3)

The work I've written that I'm proudest of: The Golden Age that Never Was

The work I've written that I love the most: Falling Falling Stars

It was hard to narrow this down because it's also changed over time and I expect it to change in the future as well. In the past for example, I would have said that Inmates was probably my best work. Or that I was proudest of Stuck on the Puzzle. So I definitely don't think this is static!

#asks and answers #pia on writing #stuck on the puzzle #the golden age that never was #the ice plague #fae tales #that's the thing #feeling that something is your best work #isn't necessarily going to be the work you're proudest of #and it isn't necessarily going to be your favourite (which is also how i interpret 'best')#i really do believe the ice plague is probably the most objectively solid writing i've ever produced #and some of the tightest in terms of balancing such a huge plot with so many ensemble characters #and i frankly think the pacing in particular in book 3 is on point #but i can't be the proudest of it because it hurt so much to write and it failed compared to GT and COFT #so i'm not actually as proud of it #anyway i have a lot of feelings about all of those stories #TGATNW was like the 'oh this is exactly what i wanted to do in this fandom and i think this worldbuilding is solid'#it's a tight work AND represented what i wanted to capture re: jack and pitch #but my heart will always be soft for FFS

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