That Yuletides Past meme
2007 | The Sixth HeavenFandom: Beauty & The Beast (TV Show)
Word Count: 5,523
Oh, Lordy. Okay, this was the most AU I'd ever taken anything ever. I rewrote it as a budding teenage romance, against the parallel of Alighieri's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio. The work is riddled with references and head-tips, while still being true as true can be to Catherine and Vincent, Dante and Beatrice, and the words themselves.
Extra Treat: Lulled and Warm
Another tiny Vincent piece I wrote while rewatching the whole series amid research.
2008 | The Smallest Spark of HopeFandom: Terminator
Word Count: 2,394
I don't remember what I got paired up with this person for, but like the year before it was not for I ended up writing. I actually did not expect this story to happen. I liked the movies, but wasn't in love and yet this exploded from me and the simple request for "Terminator Movie AU; Kyle Lives."
I had so much fun writing this one. Because I wanted to include how Kyle could have survived his last circumstances, without cutting the legs off all the growing Sarah does in the next six months, year, two years, when she travels the world and learns how to protect herself. In a way it's very Tale of Two Cities, because they don't meet until just at the end, with absolutely nothing settled and everything the way it should be.
2009 | odorous smoke and breathing flowerFandom: Elfquest
Word Count: 3,772
The first year I wrote for a fandom I offered. She wanted a story about Dart, with mentions potentially of his love-mate Sushen, and I was enamored. I reread my oldest fandom for all the main hard books, pushing pieces around until I found something I dearly and desperately loved no matter what age.
The story of Dart and Geoki, who are supposed to make and break your heart. So I wrote about that story. And, yes, it still mentions love mates and endless quests, and fires and famine and family and home. About morals, right and wrong, and growing, how it is painful, haunted, and beautiful, hopeful. All at once.
2010 | To Learn The Games You PlayFandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Word Count: 2,569
Another Terminator I did not plan for, nor get matched up on but was swept up in the prompt (that way I'd been swept up nthe series), because my recipient wanted The Story of Allison Young. Who is the skin copy of Cameron. And I was hooked.
I built my story around the single episode of scenes we see Allison and The Terminator/1st canonical Cameron-skin appearance. And then I filled it in with memories, and interlocking, overlapping piece of his her mind and history. Which turned out quite interesting.
2011 | Will forever be known as the year Amanda tried to sign up for Yuletide, the day after it closed
2012 | Is sent in!
This year I'm writing in potentially one of my most favorite fandoms/books series ever, that I never expected to be writing in. I did very little research because this series burned itself into my heart and soul during my first read, but the research I did, in fact, did change my story entirely.
From one full-born idea-piece to another full-born idea piece. I researched one night, and wrote in one night, three days apart, having to put it off for Christmas, and six hours of overtime, and a few other things. But it literally flew from my fingertips and I'm quite in love with it.
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Word Count: 5,523
Oh, Lordy. Okay, this was the most AU I'd ever taken anything ever. I rewrote it as a budding teenage romance, against the parallel of Alighieri's Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradisio. The work is riddled with references and head-tips, while still being true as true can be to Catherine and Vincent, Dante and Beatrice, and the words themselves.
Extra Treat: Lulled and Warm
Another tiny Vincent piece I wrote while rewatching the whole series amid research.
2008 | The Smallest Spark of HopeFandom: Terminator
Word Count: 2,394
I don't remember what I got paired up with this person for, but like the year before it was not for I ended up writing. I actually did not expect this story to happen. I liked the movies, but wasn't in love and yet this exploded from me and the simple request for "Terminator Movie AU; Kyle Lives."
I had so much fun writing this one. Because I wanted to include how Kyle could have survived his last circumstances, without cutting the legs off all the growing Sarah does in the next six months, year, two years, when she travels the world and learns how to protect herself. In a way it's very Tale of Two Cities, because they don't meet until just at the end, with absolutely nothing settled and everything the way it should be.
2009 | odorous smoke and breathing flowerFandom: Elfquest
Word Count: 3,772
The first year I wrote for a fandom I offered. She wanted a story about Dart, with mentions potentially of his love-mate Sushen, and I was enamored. I reread my oldest fandom for all the main hard books, pushing pieces around until I found something I dearly and desperately loved no matter what age.
The story of Dart and Geoki, who are supposed to make and break your heart. So I wrote about that story. And, yes, it still mentions love mates and endless quests, and fires and famine and family and home. About morals, right and wrong, and growing, how it is painful, haunted, and beautiful, hopeful. All at once.
2010 | To Learn The Games You PlayFandom: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Word Count: 2,569
Another Terminator I did not plan for, nor get matched up on but was swept up in the prompt (that way I'd been swept up nthe series), because my recipient wanted The Story of Allison Young. Who is the skin copy of Cameron. And I was hooked.
I built my story around the single episode of scenes we see Allison and The Terminator/1st canonical Cameron-skin appearance. And then I filled it in with memories, and interlocking, overlapping piece of his her mind and history. Which turned out quite interesting.
2011 | Will forever be known as the year Amanda tried to sign up for Yuletide, the day after it closed
2012 | Is sent in!
This year I'm writing in potentially one of my most favorite fandoms/books series ever, that I never expected to be writing in. I did very little research because this series burned itself into my heart and soul during my first read, but the research I did, in fact, did change my story entirely.
From one full-born idea-piece to another full-born idea piece. I researched one night, and wrote in one night, three days apart, having to put it off for Christmas, and six hours of overtime, and a few other things. But it literally flew from my fingertips and I'm quite in love with it.
[This entry was originally posted at http://wanderlustlover.dreamwidth.org/2210917.html. Comment on either at your leisure.]