5 to 50 -- 2005
I got really ambitious in February: I'd started a fic in mid-January and began posting a chapter a day in February. It was 75% done when I began, and although I bogged down while writing a full-scale gunfight and wrote nothing for a whole week, I was far enough ahead by that point that I *still* got it done on schedule. That was "Clockwork Mexico", a crossover between OUatiM and Silence of the Lambs.
Yeah, screwy combination, I know, but Katherine Martin (the girl in the pit) was such a pivitol character and so underused...I'd written two solo stories for her, "If You Give a Grizzly Bear a Beer" and "Twilight Reflections", and I had a good time hooking her up with El Mariachi. (foreverhermit, you'll laugh: She was a hired assassin. I also did a couple stories tied in to the Banderas movie, "Assassins". Are we sensing a theme here?!)
During the course of posting "Clockwork Mexico", I gained a fan and a friend: kukkurkurat. Our correspondence led to a lot of brainstorming, and produced several new enthusiasms....
I was still writing a lot of Depp, but other fandoms were starting to creep in: Harry Potter (where I slashed Neville and Draco, with Neville as the dominant one), assorted Vin Diesel fandoms (not much of a stretch, as I'd been picturing him as Shadow while writing "Wisdom's Gate"), and a little Brosnan-era Bond. Kukkurkurat and I both fancied Riddick, and our chatter led to "It Takes One to Know One", a Pitch Black prequel, and "Beyond Blade Runner", a crossover with guess what?
It was toward the end of the year that mojavedragonfly pointed me in the direction of Yuletide, and on October 31st, I signed up here on LJ. In those days, you had to fulfill a New Year's Resolution to join, and I ended up writing "The Twenty-five Dollar Shoebox" (O Brother, Where Art Thou) and "Feliz Navidad" (Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum).
S and T spent Christmas in Hawaii, so the holidays found me in Schnauzerland, I wrote what turned out to be my final OUaTiM story for Yuletide, and got an absolutely marvelous story based in CJ Cherryh's Merchanter/Alliance Universe.
It was a pretty good year.
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Yeah, screwy combination, I know, but Katherine Martin (the girl in the pit) was such a pivitol character and so underused...I'd written two solo stories for her, "If You Give a Grizzly Bear a Beer" and "Twilight Reflections", and I had a good time hooking her up with El Mariachi. (foreverhermit, you'll laugh: She was a hired assassin. I also did a couple stories tied in to the Banderas movie, "Assassins". Are we sensing a theme here?!)
During the course of posting "Clockwork Mexico", I gained a fan and a friend: kukkurkurat. Our correspondence led to a lot of brainstorming, and produced several new enthusiasms....
I was still writing a lot of Depp, but other fandoms were starting to creep in: Harry Potter (where I slashed Neville and Draco, with Neville as the dominant one), assorted Vin Diesel fandoms (not much of a stretch, as I'd been picturing him as Shadow while writing "Wisdom's Gate"), and a little Brosnan-era Bond. Kukkurkurat and I both fancied Riddick, and our chatter led to "It Takes One to Know One", a Pitch Black prequel, and "Beyond Blade Runner", a crossover with guess what?
It was toward the end of the year that mojavedragonfly pointed me in the direction of Yuletide, and on October 31st, I signed up here on LJ. In those days, you had to fulfill a New Year's Resolution to join, and I ended up writing "The Twenty-five Dollar Shoebox" (O Brother, Where Art Thou) and "Feliz Navidad" (Janet Evanovich: Stephanie Plum).
S and T spent Christmas in Hawaii, so the holidays found me in Schnauzerland, I wrote what turned out to be my final OUaTiM story for Yuletide, and got an absolutely marvelous story based in CJ Cherryh's Merchanter/Alliance Universe.
It was a pretty good year.
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