Yuletide: the great reveal
Time to confess:
My Yuletide story was for navaan who had requested Blake's 7 fic featuring Jenna, Blake and Avon. Since my usual way of writing any B7 fic is to either let Vila and Avon talk a lot, or be frivolous (or both), this was why I was having a slight panic (in traditional Yuletide fashion), because these are three great characters, and it would be so easy to fail to do them justice. (I'm not saying I did, of course, but I tried, and the recipient liked it, which is the big thing, after all.)
Hit and Run
4533 words, All ages. Jenna Stannis, Roj Blake, Kerr Avon. S1. No spoilers. A mission to destroy a Federation research station goes wrong, leaving Blake, Jenna and Avon stranded and forced to run for their lives.
I also surprised myself by somehow managing to write a treat for sexybee who had had the good sense to request fic for Diana Wynne Jones's The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, (a sort of A-Z travel guide to Fantasyland that assumes all fantasy novels are set in more or less the same place and lovingly and mercilessly deconstructs the cliches of the genre), so it was a case of original fic by the Tough Guide rules. Hopefully, accessible to anyone. (Although I recommend the book, if you own a sense of humour and have ever read any fantasy.) For the same reason, I've been lucky enough not only to have quite a few nice comments, but to be recced more than once for this one.
Seeking Dragons
2060 words. All ages. Original characters. Want to Meet a Dragon? Suffering the Awe-full Handicapp of being Male? Why waste weeks, months or Years struggling to find your Way through Dark Caverns to the Hidden Valley, or Growing Old Awaiting the Final Confrontation? See Jaxon Hyle for the perfect, paineless Solution! In which Lilla tries to make a living by the rules, even though brown-eyed, mousy-haired girls never get anywhere in Fantasyland.
(This was fun to do - play around with the Guide, but also to keep a nod to the sort of tone of things that DWJ writes, too.)
My Yuletide story was for navaan who had requested Blake's 7 fic featuring Jenna, Blake and Avon. Since my usual way of writing any B7 fic is to either let Vila and Avon talk a lot, or be frivolous (or both), this was why I was having a slight panic (in traditional Yuletide fashion), because these are three great characters, and it would be so easy to fail to do them justice. (I'm not saying I did, of course, but I tried, and the recipient liked it, which is the big thing, after all.)
Hit and Run
4533 words, All ages. Jenna Stannis, Roj Blake, Kerr Avon. S1. No spoilers. A mission to destroy a Federation research station goes wrong, leaving Blake, Jenna and Avon stranded and forced to run for their lives.
I also surprised myself by somehow managing to write a treat for sexybee who had had the good sense to request fic for Diana Wynne Jones's The Tough Guide to Fantasyland, (a sort of A-Z travel guide to Fantasyland that assumes all fantasy novels are set in more or less the same place and lovingly and mercilessly deconstructs the cliches of the genre), so it was a case of original fic by the Tough Guide rules. Hopefully, accessible to anyone. (Although I recommend the book, if you own a sense of humour and have ever read any fantasy.) For the same reason, I've been lucky enough not only to have quite a few nice comments, but to be recced more than once for this one.
Seeking Dragons
2060 words. All ages. Original characters. Want to Meet a Dragon? Suffering the Awe-full Handicapp of being Male? Why waste weeks, months or Years struggling to find your Way through Dark Caverns to the Hidden Valley, or Growing Old Awaiting the Final Confrontation? See Jaxon Hyle for the perfect, paineless Solution! In which Lilla tries to make a living by the rules, even though brown-eyed, mousy-haired girls never get anywhere in Fantasyland.
(This was fun to do - play around with the Guide, but also to keep a nod to the sort of tone of things that DWJ writes, too.)