Happy 2012!
First entry of the new year! I hope everyone reading this will have a wonderful 2012. We made it through another one, folks! You ought to be proud!
Yuletide reveals are up and now I can publicly thank sparrowinsky for my marvelous Boardwalk Empire fic, The Sight of the World. Also thanks to halfeatenmoon for A new twist on an old game, a perfect All Creatures Great and Small ficlet. Whee!
And I can reveal that I wrote The Secret of Peacock Flats, a Brisco County, Jr. fic, for Gryph. This was my longest fic I've ever written for Yuletide, and I feel like I could've gone longer but I just ran out of time near the end. I actually matched on two fandoms for my recipient: Terra Nova and Brisco County, Jr. and in the throes of initial Yuletide eagerness, I went for the Terra Nova prompt first. Then I realized that I couldn't take the story where I wished for it to go without knowing what happens in the rest of the season. And with Terra Nova's finale in December, I wasn't sure if I'd have enough writing time afterwards. Scrapped the Terra Nova idea quickly after that.
So that whittled my options down to Brisco County, Jr., and with my recipient's interest in Terra Nova, I wanted to work in dinosaurs somehow. And that's the seed which grew into "Secret". Peacock Flats is real. It's a patch of land in Hawaii, where peacocks do roam. I always thought it sounded rustic and frontier-y enough for it to make a good town name in an American western type scenario. I'm glad I managed to work it in. The rest of the story grew organically from "Brisco and Bowler meet dinosaurs".
I'm very glad that my recipient liked it, and it seems to have gotten a decent amount of praise, so that's all that one can ask for during Yuletide, really.
And now I'm going to rewatch the first season of BBC's modern day Sherlock series on Netflix before watching the premiere of the second season. Yes, starting off the new year right!
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Yuletide reveals are up and now I can publicly thank sparrowinsky for my marvelous Boardwalk Empire fic, The Sight of the World. Also thanks to halfeatenmoon for A new twist on an old game, a perfect All Creatures Great and Small ficlet. Whee!
And I can reveal that I wrote The Secret of Peacock Flats, a Brisco County, Jr. fic, for Gryph. This was my longest fic I've ever written for Yuletide, and I feel like I could've gone longer but I just ran out of time near the end. I actually matched on two fandoms for my recipient: Terra Nova and Brisco County, Jr. and in the throes of initial Yuletide eagerness, I went for the Terra Nova prompt first. Then I realized that I couldn't take the story where I wished for it to go without knowing what happens in the rest of the season. And with Terra Nova's finale in December, I wasn't sure if I'd have enough writing time afterwards. Scrapped the Terra Nova idea quickly after that.
So that whittled my options down to Brisco County, Jr., and with my recipient's interest in Terra Nova, I wanted to work in dinosaurs somehow. And that's the seed which grew into "Secret". Peacock Flats is real. It's a patch of land in Hawaii, where peacocks do roam. I always thought it sounded rustic and frontier-y enough for it to make a good town name in an American western type scenario. I'm glad I managed to work it in. The rest of the story grew organically from "Brisco and Bowler meet dinosaurs".
I'm very glad that my recipient liked it, and it seems to have gotten a decent amount of praise, so that's all that one can ask for during Yuletide, really.
And now I'm going to rewatch the first season of BBC's modern day Sherlock series on Netflix before watching the premiere of the second season. Yes, starting off the new year right!
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comments. Please comment there.