Yuletide Reveal and WFGE OMG!
Yuletide authors are revealed! I ended up writing three stories. I was assigned a super-obscure, tiny fandom for a fantasy trilogy called "Time Master" by Louise Cooper, and wrote "Perfection," which is a story of Cyllan's first day in the Realm of Chaos. But it was short and I wasn't perfectly happy with it, plus there was a fandom on my recipient's prompt list that spix_in_lj had recommended to me but I'd never gotten to, a manga called "Pet Shop of Horrors." I decided, what the heck, found and read the manga, and wrote "Deserving," in which Leon and Count D are reunited. It turned out longer than the original prompt and I liked it better, so I was glad I did it!
Then, just as I was about to get on my intercontinental flight, I saw a pinch hit for the Heian period of Japanese history, asking for a team-up between Sei Shonagon (author of The Pillow Book) and Murasaki Shikibu (author of Tale of Genji), two famous court rivals. It had gotten picked up by a different person, but the mod said that with super-last minute pinch hits it was okay to have more than one person grab the prompt, so on the spur of the moment I decided to give it a try. Downloaded a few excerpts from The Pillow Book at the airport and wrote "On the Moonlit Road of Dreams" on the plane in one burst. It ended up with some historical inaccuracies in it, but I had so much fun with the tone and time that I'm not too chagrined. :)
In short, I had a wonderful Yuletide!
Also, OMG, there has been a glut of fantastic Clark/Bruce stories at worlds_finest for the Gift Exchange! I just spent all this morning reading and chortling, and I'm far from caught up. Excellent work, everyone!
Then, just as I was about to get on my intercontinental flight, I saw a pinch hit for the Heian period of Japanese history, asking for a team-up between Sei Shonagon (author of The Pillow Book) and Murasaki Shikibu (author of Tale of Genji), two famous court rivals. It had gotten picked up by a different person, but the mod said that with super-last minute pinch hits it was okay to have more than one person grab the prompt, so on the spur of the moment I decided to give it a try. Downloaded a few excerpts from The Pillow Book at the airport and wrote "On the Moonlit Road of Dreams" on the plane in one burst. It ended up with some historical inaccuracies in it, but I had so much fun with the tone and time that I'm not too chagrined. :)
In short, I had a wonderful Yuletide!
Also, OMG, there has been a glut of fantastic Clark/Bruce stories at worlds_finest for the Gift Exchange! I just spent all this morning reading and chortling, and I'm far from caught up. Excellent work, everyone!