Yuletide Confessions
I'd say something about
yuletide fics and flist, but we'd be here until tomorrow if I did, so comments to follow.
raindroproses wrote A World Engendered for me, thank you! (I keep re-reading this. I must drop her another note - it unfolds like damask patterned wallpaper, this story, and I like it more the more I read.)
So, I wrote ... Blue Moon Rising for
sanj, Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana, Alessan/Baerd. This was beta'd by
bethia_cathrain (who wrote herself The Prunesquallor's New Aide, Gormenghast). Apart from being nervous (GGK!) I really enjoyed this one, research and everything. And
sanj liked it, which I was a bit nervous about also!
Then I picked up the pinch-hit Frontier Games for
melannen . (Rosemary Sutcliff, Frontier Wolf, Alexios/Hilarion) I saw it come through on e-mail, read Sutcliff! thought, mine! and replied. But the thing is, I'd replied seconds previously to the prior pinch-hit, 63. So I really messed
elynross around, which was an awful thing to do. Then I discovered ... it's one of the few RS books I don't have. Neverthless, it got written in a breathless 24 hours, phew, and
melannen liked it, phew! (Raises eyebrow and grins at
lebannen, who was of course right about the author.)
Then came pinch-hit 63. That's the one I asked for and immediately dropped for Frontier Wolf, but I had nightmares about getting the thing back.
I did.
So in three hours on Christmas Day I also wrote Domination for
esteliel (Carol Berg, Transformation trilogy, Sayonne/Aleksander mild dom). Spot the typos! I think this was possibly the last story uploaded - it certainly went in after the archive went live - and I think a little of the pressure of four days with AP's showed. Unbelievably (bless her)
esteliel liked it.
Hm. Very close to canon, this lot, far closer than in previous years. However, in the grey aftermath of Hogmanay - free alcohol from someone anonymous! Guinness (dark liquid) is just the thing for this overcast weather - I am just about to light the fire, open friends presents from Christmas I did not dare touch in front of the APs, and make chocolate sponge pudding - so thank you!
yuletide fics and flist, but we'd be here until tomorrow if I did, so comments to follow.
raindroproses wrote A World Engendered for me, thank you! (I keep re-reading this. I must drop her another note - it unfolds like damask patterned wallpaper, this story, and I like it more the more I read.)
So, I wrote ... Blue Moon Rising for
sanj, Guy Gavriel Kay's Tigana, Alessan/Baerd. This was beta'd by
bethia_cathrain (who wrote herself The Prunesquallor's New Aide, Gormenghast). Apart from being nervous (GGK!) I really enjoyed this one, research and everything. And
sanj liked it, which I was a bit nervous about also!
Then I picked up the pinch-hit Frontier Games for
melannen . (Rosemary Sutcliff, Frontier Wolf, Alexios/Hilarion) I saw it come through on e-mail, read Sutcliff! thought, mine! and replied. But the thing is, I'd replied seconds previously to the prior pinch-hit, 63. So I really messed
elynross around, which was an awful thing to do. Then I discovered ... it's one of the few RS books I don't have. Neverthless, it got written in a breathless 24 hours, phew, and
melannen liked it, phew! (Raises eyebrow and grins at
lebannen, who was of course right about the author.)
Then came pinch-hit 63. That's the one I asked for and immediately dropped for Frontier Wolf, but I had nightmares about getting the thing back.
I did.
So in three hours on Christmas Day I also wrote Domination for
esteliel (Carol Berg, Transformation trilogy, Sayonne/Aleksander mild dom). Spot the typos! I think this was possibly the last story uploaded - it certainly went in after the archive went live - and I think a little of the pressure of four days with AP's showed. Unbelievably (bless her)
esteliel liked it.
Hm. Very close to canon, this lot, far closer than in previous years. However, in the grey aftermath of Hogmanay - free alcohol from someone anonymous! Guinness (dark liquid) is just the thing for this overcast weather - I am just about to light the fire, open friends presents from Christmas I did not dare touch in front of the APs, and make chocolate sponge pudding - so thank you!