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genarti

Yuletide reveal time!

Jan 01, 2011 14:31

And now, for something less ridiculous than my previous post (NOT HARD), the Yuletide reveal!

I wrote Some Of Jacuzzi Splot's Acquaintances Are More Reluctant To Intrude On A Friendly Outing Than Others, a slightly manic Baccano! fic after which I think I'm not allowed to say that I can't write dialogue and plot any more. It was enormous fun to ( Read more... )

fanfic, anime: baccano!, writing, books: valdemar, yuletide

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sovay January 1 2011, 20:18:22 UTC

I also wrote Some Find Solace based on Dave Carter's song "The Mountain," which means it's basically original fic.

I liked that one very much.

(I also like Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer very much, but it is a good story.)

genarti January 1 2011, 22:48:06 UTC

Thank you so much! That's a lovely compliment.

I just discovered much of Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer's oeuvre this year, after having spent a long while knowing a couple of songs and intending in a distractable way to get my hands on more. They really are great, aren't they?

sovay January 1 2011, 22:55:13 UTC

They really are great, aren't they?

I had the dubious fortune to discover them with Drum Hat Buddha, meaning that next thing I knew, Dave Carter had had a heart attack, but I'm glad any of their music exists at all. They are some of the best mythic folk I know; maybe the best. And their songs lend themselves well to stories. I know of three or four by now.

Does anyone ever try to publish Yuletide work? Obviously not the strict fanfiction, but I am thinking of Shakespeare, fairy tales, historical figures, songfic-nothing in the content for any of those genres would disqualify them from professional publication. And there is a lot of professional-quality work in that archive.

genarti January 1 2011, 23:42:44 UTC

Oh dear! Yeah, I heard about Dave Carter's death back when I barely knew their music. All my real discoveries were posthumous. Which in a way makes me sad, and makes me feel that I missed my chance; on the other hand, as you say, at least it exists at all.

Does anyone ever try to publish Yuletide work?

You know, I've wondered that occasionally, but I have absolutely no idea. I should think some of the authors of the more freely public domain Yuletide fics certainly could try for publication if they wanted, but I don't know if anyone has.

sovay January 2 2011, 00:27:21 UTC

Which in a way makes me sad, and makes me feel that I missed my chance; on the other hand, as you say, at least it exists at all.

I never saw them live, either.

I should think some of the authors of the more freely public domain Yuletide fics certainly could try for publication if they wanted, but I don't know if anyone has.

When I bounced this question off rushthatspeaks, they suggested that someone should edit a Yuletide print anthology of Shakespeare/fairy tales/etc. which I think is a brilliant idea, but I have no idea who to suggest it to!

genarti January 2 2011, 02:27:30 UTC

Oh, that is a brilliant idea! I have no idea who to suggest it to either, but it really would be a lovely thing, and there are certainly a lot of worthy candidates.

rachelmanija January 2 2011, 02:33:43 UTC

upstart-crow? astolat would be a good person to ask.

sovay January 2 2011, 02:56:24 UTC

upstart_crow?

I am e-mailing her as we speak; I thought of her as soon as I'd posted my reply.

astolat would be a good person to ask.

I do not know her except by her fiction, but so noted.

Thanks!

rachelmanija January 2 2011, 03:08:53 UTC

Let me know if it goes anywhere - I love the idea.

astolat isn't an editor, but she's one of the main people involved with both Yuletide and the OTW (Organization for Transformative Works), which is an organization which can help with questions regarding the legal status of doing this sort of thing.

http://transformativeworks.org/

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