This had a very minimal effect on me, since I only had one story on the old Yuletide Treasure site, from the 2008 exchange. I didn't participate in Yuletide Madness that year, and by 2009 stories were posted to AO3 though signups were still on the old site. (That was an, um, interesting year. Yeah ( Read more... )

Yuletide reveal day!

I wrote To Be of Use for qwerty, aka xsmoonshine. The fandom is Diana Wynne Jones's The Homeward Bounders, a YA fantasy book. (The slightly revised ff.net version is here; basically, I killed a typo and smoothed some minor narrative flow and clarity issues ( Read more... )

Happy New Year! Here are 23 Yuletide 2008 recs, just under the wire of anonymity. Fandoms include Captain Britain and MI-13, Eve Forward - Villains by Necessity, Guy Gavriel Kay - The Lions of Al-Rassan, Jim Butcher - The Dresden Files, Joan D. Vinge - Psion trilogy, Karin Lowachee - Warchild trilogy, L. Frank Baum - Oz series, Lloyd Alexander - ( Read more... )

I didn't start writing my Yuletide story until fairly late in the game, but I'd been outlining it in my head for nearly a week before that. The trouble is that the story as outlined required too much time to write, so I sectioned off the second part as a standalone. (This worked because the original plan involved four or five mini-stories that ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

I'm pretty easy to please, really -- so long as you write a grammatically correct story that isn't simply a long sex scene, I'll be thrilled just to get a fic in one of the fandoms I asked for. *grin* But I realize that's not terribly helpful, so here's the (very!) long version.

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All the holiday shoppers who didn't come to the store yesterday came today. We made more in the morning shift alone than we often make in an entire DAY. Ow, ow, ow, and oh my poor sanityNow I am going to pack my bags and do various other useful things, since I will hardly have more than an hour to myself for the next several days. The plan goes ( Read more... )

Is anyone willing to do a last-minute beta on my Yuletide story? I think it's fairly comprehensible even without specific fandom knowledge (I certainly tried to make it work that way, anyway), and I've been pretty careful about canon-accuracy on my own, so what I really need is someone to read it over and see if I managed to successfully paste on ( Read more... )

1. I printed the rough draft of "Secrets" ch. 12 today. It is 31 pages long. *boggles at sheaf of paper ( Read more... )

You know, the brilliant thing about Yuletide is that I have a perfect excuse to rewatch some good movies and reread a lot of old favorite books and/or comics, so as to disguise which one I am really studying for nefarious fanfic-writing purposes. *evil grin ( Read more... )