Thread:Kefke Wren/@comment-7706473-20130402074410/@comment-4332975-20130404102522

I think picking a favourite from my own stories would be even harder. With another person's work, I have the universal standard of my own enjoyment. For my own, however, I lack such a baseline. Each story I write has a goal in mind, a specific purpose for which it was created, and they vary wildly.

"My First Pikachu" was a study in clichés, changing familiar and often-times overused elements to create something that, simply through the way they were used would feel fresh and original.

"A Place In Legend" was, straightforwardly enough, simply to test my ability to tell a story in which a key plot point is withheld from the reader, yet evident in hindsight.

"Hidden Truth" was actually designed inside-out, starting with an ominous sounding message that I wanted to hide in a story, and building writing that would make it meaningful around the simple code I used to conceal it.

"Glitch, Final Days" was written primarily to tell people about a game that I had enjoyed and felt wasn't given a fair chance, using some vaguely Lovecraftian horror as a framework to underscore the already somewhat surreal feeling the game had.

"Unknown Format" might not be obvious, but was essentially my attempt to provide a backstory for how there could be so many seemingly evil .exe's and the like out there.

"QUEST" started out simply in answer to someone's pointing out the lack of any pasta in the Q section of the listing, but was also a way to recapture the feelings I had of anything being possible when I first discovered about computers, and especially computer gaming, when it felt like computers were mysterious and could do anything.

"The Last Big Secret" was a challenge to myself to write in a completely different format from my usual, and apparently quite recognizable style, while still sharing an obscure bit of history about a game I dearly loved.

...and, of course "Termina's Secret" was a way to bring together scattered pieces of different theories I'd read, along with my own extrapolations, and make my case for how all of the pieces might just fit together.