Lessons from Yuletide and other thoughts

[evelyn_b]

"A better reason -- but not enough, not enough. Tell me this-- if you knew you would be as poor as a church mouse all your life-- if you knew you'd never have a line published-- would you still go on writing-- would you?"
--Emily of New Moon's Mr. Carpenter, who ought to take the dash out of his own eye before he goes picking at the italics in

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[soundingsea]

This year, I wrote a story for Yuletide that I thought was kind of a mess, and I worried for days that my recipient would hate it and be disappointed in me. But my recipient liked it, and it didn't matter what I thought I should have done with it instead, because it wasn't for me; it was for someone else. This is a very simple lesson, but one I have apparently had to learn many times.

I really did love it so, so much! And I'm kinda-guessing that we matched on my book fandom where you (to judge by your DYA letter) have different tastes than me? Anyhow I got a treat for that request anyhow, and I'm so very pleased that you decided to write for a song nobody, but nobody, had signed up to write. That made it a complete surprise and just fantastic.

(Yes, I finally came to see if you ever wrote a reveal, and I suppose this counts! Perhaps I'd better write my own!)

[evelyn_b]

I'm so glad you liked it!

We actually matched on "Girl from the North Country," but then I was curious about the other song and went to listen to it, and after that I couldn't manage to get back to the North Country story because I kept filling up the margins with notes for the other and then the margins grew to fill half the page and then I gave up. So it was a good prompt.

Next year I'm going to be a better Yuletide participant, I hope. I didn't really know what I was doing this time around, but I'm glad I jumped in anyway.