Yuletide letter 2010
It's been forever since I updated this thing, but since I just got my Yuletide assignment, and find these sorts of posts incredibly helpful for my own writing, I figured it was worth throwing one up.
This year I went for all comics fandoms. Which is a bit odd for me as I'll usually have something from somewhere else. But apparently I'm in a comics mood!
Anyway, I'll try to keep this short, but at the same time make it at least a little bit useful. First up, seriously, write what makes you happy. I love Yuletide, but one of the reasons I do is that it lets me see what awesome ideas other people have. Which is especially nice since they're so often better than my ideas. Take what strikes you as awesome, don't worry about the rest.
That said, I know that when I get a Yuletide request I find some constraint/direction is super-helpful. I'm one of those people who writes much better with some guidelines in place. Just in case you are, too, here's some stuff!
For the most part I'm a reader and writer of gen-fic. While I'm not anti-smut in fic, I don't tend to find it all that compelling. To me stories are about characters and interaction, and while you can get that in sex scenes, I just don't tend to get as excited by that.
The relationships that draw me most strongly are the ones built on mutual respect. In some cases that leads to romance (and I do like romance in general, but I like it extra when it's founded on a deep relationship of mutual respect!) such as my Blue Beetle request. Or, in some sense, my way-too-vague Red Star request (it's probably wrong of me, but I assume anyone who gets that particular request already knows me and what I like...). Sometimes, though, it's not (necessarily) a romantic thing.
So, yeah! That's my kick at the moment: stories about people who are partners is, I suppose, one way to put it. Not in the mismatched buddy-cop movie sense in which everyone learns to get along, but in the "these people finish each others' sentences" sense.
Thanks again for signing up, and I hope you're as excited by this as I am.
Yay writing,
Ana
This year I went for all comics fandoms. Which is a bit odd for me as I'll usually have something from somewhere else. But apparently I'm in a comics mood!
Anyway, I'll try to keep this short, but at the same time make it at least a little bit useful. First up, seriously, write what makes you happy. I love Yuletide, but one of the reasons I do is that it lets me see what awesome ideas other people have. Which is especially nice since they're so often better than my ideas. Take what strikes you as awesome, don't worry about the rest.
That said, I know that when I get a Yuletide request I find some constraint/direction is super-helpful. I'm one of those people who writes much better with some guidelines in place. Just in case you are, too, here's some stuff!
For the most part I'm a reader and writer of gen-fic. While I'm not anti-smut in fic, I don't tend to find it all that compelling. To me stories are about characters and interaction, and while you can get that in sex scenes, I just don't tend to get as excited by that.
The relationships that draw me most strongly are the ones built on mutual respect. In some cases that leads to romance (and I do like romance in general, but I like it extra when it's founded on a deep relationship of mutual respect!) such as my Blue Beetle request. Or, in some sense, my way-too-vague Red Star request (it's probably wrong of me, but I assume anyone who gets that particular request already knows me and what I like...). Sometimes, though, it's not (necessarily) a romantic thing.
So, yeah! That's my kick at the moment: stories about people who are partners is, I suppose, one way to put it. Not in the mismatched buddy-cop movie sense in which everyone learns to get along, but in the "these people finish each others' sentences" sense.
Thanks again for signing up, and I hope you're as excited by this as I am.
Yay writing,
Ana