Yuletide Reveal!

I did not sign up for Yuletide this year, but I wound up picking up a pinch hit on Dec. 21.

What can I say? I function best under tight deadlines.

Anyhow, I picked up the prompt for izzy, and ended up writing:

Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman: The Never-Green Tree
Two weeks after returning to London Below, Richard Mayhew must once again cross Night's Bridge.

8,000+ words in 48 hours (including a flurry of online research) followed by an 11th-hour edit pass on Christmas Eve. I don't think I've ever written that much in that short of a time frame and been as happy with a fic as I am with this one. Given that I had little time to canon-check, I may have muffed a detail or two, but so far no one has pointed anything out.

The recipient seemed to be very, very pleased with it as well, which was immensely gratifying. She left a great YT letter that gave me a good idea of what she liked about the book and the characters in the first place, and that had an intriguing prompt that gave me a good sense of direction and still a lot of room to play.

As an unexpected side bonus, the Yuletide mods put up a post asking for prompts from those of us who pinch-hitted but did not sign up for the challenge. So, I wound up gettingfics in addition to writing one!

I got FOUR fics for "How to Train Your Dragon," all on the theme of Stoick and/or Hiccup adjusting to things post-movie (I'll link and comment individually a bit later).

I then got THREE "Princess and the Frog" fics, two with Tiana teaching Lottie how to cook and one where Tiana herself is still learning to cook. These fics all rocked, especially in how all three of them brought in the Tiana-Lottie friendship (which was my favorite thing about the movie).

I also got an absolutely brilliant "Angry Birds" fic. Well, filk. Some evil genius did a rewrite of a very famous WWI poem: In Level Six. Only 97 words, but I was howling with laughter throughout. "In Level Six, the balloons blow..."

2010 - the year in fic

This was a fairly good year, fic-wise, even though my active fandoms have shrunk down to two-and-a-half. The two are Supernatural and Bleach, as I actually posted fic in those, and the half fandom is Sherlock, as I've only actually posted a couple of drabbles. Yuletide was a nice break from that rut (see my previous post for more information)

Bleach

One-shots:

What's Past is Prologue: Masaki-centric and jossed to hell and back. Still, it was fun to play with the idea of how Masaki's story might parallel Rukia's.

Q&A: A Yoruichi and Soi Fong fic written for the halfamoon challenge. Basically, it's the aftermath of their confrontation and Soi Fong's confession.

Child's Play.: A Shunsui and Nanao piece where Nanao learns more about what makes her captain tick. Of the three one-shots I wrote, this is my favorite of the bunch.

Multi-parters:

Continued to work on Winter War with liralen and incandescens. This has continued to be a fun project, even though the subject of the fic itself is rather bleak and we've been ratcheting up quite the death toll.

I also started posting I Shall Roam the Summer Fields, which has stolen my heart like no other fic I've worked on before. I've got 7 chapters and 20,000 words posted, and quite a bit more drafted/outlined in detail, and the whole thing blocked out. Yeah, this puppy's going to be novel-length when all is said and done, and it feels like a dress-rehearsal for some original stuff I've got kicking around in my brain.

Supernatural

Five People Dean Has Screwed Who Weren't Human, One Who Doesn't Count, One He Would Have Screwed, and One He Still Might: Probably the closest I'll ever come to writing smut, either for het or for slash. It was interesting thinking of different situations where Dean would (willingly or otherwise) have sex with people who weren't human. Of the bunch, my personal favorite is Dean/Lenore.

Black Dog on My Shoulder Again. Stanford-era Sam, which is something I never would have written if I hadn't received a prompt asking for it. It was fun playing with what Sam knew vs. what the readers would know by the end of S5, especially when it came to Brady. For whatever reason, this fic didn't get quite the level of response as the others I did this year, and I'm not sure why.

Fightin' Words was a pinch hit I picked up for summergen, and oh, it was good to write comedy again.

Sherlock

I only did a couple of drabbles in response to a one-liner fic prompt I did, but I was pleased with them and will likely crosspost them at some point. All of them were crossovers, which was quite a bit of fun.

Crossover with Doctor Who: Amy and John comparing notes

Crossover with Supernatural: The boys run afoul of Lestrade during their trip to the UK.

Crossover with Neverwhere: Mycroft vs. Messrs. Croup and Vandemar