Meme snaffled from Erastes

Let’s see if I can keep this up and post an answer to one of the questions every day.

Question #1

1. Tell us about your favorite writing project/universe that you’ve worked with and why.

That’s hard!  I tend to love most the project that I’m working on at that time.  And I tend to like all my heroes about equally.  But if I think in terms of the project that I had most fun writing, it would be The Wages of Sin.  Although this had quite a complicated murder plot with clues that I had to work in at strategic points, and a much bigger set of important characters than most of my other stuff – and less space to get the big plot and multiple characters into, since it was a novella – for some reason it was a delight to write.  A lot of the time I was writing on inspiration, and watching it come out and all make sense without any feeling of struggle or grinding effort.

All my other stuff has been at least 95% hard grind with the occasional burst of “woohoo! this is fun!”  But WoS was probably 65% where I knew what I was doing and I was enjoying doing it.  I wish it was like that all the time!  So I cherish a fondness for it for being the least painful thing I’ve ever written.  And also for Jasper, who is (IMO) the sexiest of my characters – which also took me by surprise.  He’s a big, quiet, sensual, simple kind of man, (in the sense of not always second guessing himself) which is rare in my characters.  It was nice to write someone without any self-doubt or self-loathing, for a change.

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