Snowflake Challenge, Day 9
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pensnestDay 9
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Its funny—I can be not at all comfortable with asking for love, but more than happy to ask for readers. I am pleased with almost all of the stories I've written, and proud of quite a few of them, so the real difficulty for me with a challenge like this one is to restrict myself to a reasonable number.
So I thought I'd offer some very brief ficlets, things that are cute or cracky and won't take but a minute to read, and then some more substantial stories if anyone has a bit more time to invest.
Here are the short ones.
There's Oh, the Places You'll Go, in which Lance bestows a christening gift of books on his baby goddaughter. Just a little thing, response to a prompt, but it's very sweet and I find I am very fond of it. on AO3 580 words
Another response to a prompt, although a very different one, is Free Range, in which AJ lays eggs, and JC wishes to hatch them. Oh yes.
And then, there is The Story of James Lance, who Told Lies, and Came to a Sticky End, with apologies to Hilaire Belloc, and also with a recording of my reading the poem. Which works quite well in my very English accent.
here on AO3, but without the recording
If anyone has a bit more stamina and would like a longer sample of my voice, I very much enjoyed making The Hufflepuff Hotchpotch, written by eledhwenlin, as part of my first Pod Together challenge. The story was a lot of fun to record, and eledhwenlin managed to find lots of opportunities for neat little sound effects of one kind or another. It's a bandom story set in the Harry Potter universe, in which Spencer and Brendon are assigned to investigate a very peculiar case.
For longer fics, I'm going to mention stories that are for some reason not entirely characteristic of me (or so it feels, to me). Mind you, when I say longer fics, I don't generally write anything huge, so these are all well under 20,000 words.
I don't do zombies, but in a story exchange a couple of years ago my recipient was famously a big zombie fan. I was wallowing in dismay until an excellent friend introduced me to Shaun of the Dead. I took copious notes, and got cracking on the story with great glee. In fact, I don't think I've ever written the final scene of a story with such relish. Zombies! Gotta love them, sometimes. The story is a popslash AU, in which Chris is an aspiring (and somewhat successful) author. Thriller, about 12,500 words.
on AO3
I also don't do post-apocalyptic, or not willingly, but I got a request for a story with post-apocalyptic vampires and romance, and after much cursing and struggling produced something I'm actually very proud of, for this world to be unbroken. I think it helped a lot that I came across a thoughtful piece pointing out that the myriad medieval-set fantasy stories that ignore things like deadly childhood diseases (like measles) were not really representing the world properly. Popslash, featuring the Backstreet Boys and a special guest, just over 10,000 words.
on AO3
I don't tend to go for period pieces either, as Regency fics in which our heroes chattily contemplate marrying one another tend to irritate me. But, for a different fic exchange I wrote Sparrowhawk and Beeswax, which worked out really well (and nobody gets married in it). My Georgette Heyer impersonation! It's an Adam Lambert fic.
on AO3
Finally, there's The White Room, which is a futuristic Fuck Or Die/In Space AU. This one started out with The Scene I Wanted To Write, and I knew I had to do the set-up before I could write The Scene. Also, for the first ten minutes or so I thought it was going to be pure crack, but it turned out not to be. I had a surprising amount of fun figuring out what the world was like, and it was one of those fics that just flows and flows, and every time my fingers stopped typing, I'd go downstairs, make some coffee, or lunch, or wipe the kitchen surfaces, and when I got back to my computer there was more ready to be written. I think I only went down one false trail, briefly, and it was such an exciting writing experience. It's about 11,000 words and WARNING: consent issues are pretty much the heart of this.
on AO3
In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Its funny—I can be not at all comfortable with asking for love, but more than happy to ask for readers. I am pleased with almost all of the stories I've written, and proud of quite a few of them, so the real difficulty for me with a challenge like this one is to restrict myself to a reasonable number.
So I thought I'd offer some very brief ficlets, things that are cute or cracky and won't take but a minute to read, and then some more substantial stories if anyone has a bit more time to invest.
Here are the short ones.
There's Oh, the Places You'll Go, in which Lance bestows a christening gift of books on his baby goddaughter. Just a little thing, response to a prompt, but it's very sweet and I find I am very fond of it. on AO3 580 words
Another response to a prompt, although a very different one, is Free Range, in which AJ lays eggs, and JC wishes to hatch them. Oh yes.
And then, there is The Story of James Lance, who Told Lies, and Came to a Sticky End, with apologies to Hilaire Belloc, and also with a recording of my reading the poem. Which works quite well in my very English accent.
here on AO3, but without the recording
If anyone has a bit more stamina and would like a longer sample of my voice, I very much enjoyed making The Hufflepuff Hotchpotch, written by eledhwenlin, as part of my first Pod Together challenge. The story was a lot of fun to record, and eledhwenlin managed to find lots of opportunities for neat little sound effects of one kind or another. It's a bandom story set in the Harry Potter universe, in which Spencer and Brendon are assigned to investigate a very peculiar case.
For longer fics, I'm going to mention stories that are for some reason not entirely characteristic of me (or so it feels, to me). Mind you, when I say longer fics, I don't generally write anything huge, so these are all well under 20,000 words.
I don't do zombies, but in a story exchange a couple of years ago my recipient was famously a big zombie fan. I was wallowing in dismay until an excellent friend introduced me to Shaun of the Dead. I took copious notes, and got cracking on the story with great glee. In fact, I don't think I've ever written the final scene of a story with such relish. Zombies! Gotta love them, sometimes. The story is a popslash AU, in which Chris is an aspiring (and somewhat successful) author. Thriller, about 12,500 words.
on AO3
I also don't do post-apocalyptic, or not willingly, but I got a request for a story with post-apocalyptic vampires and romance, and after much cursing and struggling produced something I'm actually very proud of, for this world to be unbroken. I think it helped a lot that I came across a thoughtful piece pointing out that the myriad medieval-set fantasy stories that ignore things like deadly childhood diseases (like measles) were not really representing the world properly. Popslash, featuring the Backstreet Boys and a special guest, just over 10,000 words.
on AO3
I don't tend to go for period pieces either, as Regency fics in which our heroes chattily contemplate marrying one another tend to irritate me. But, for a different fic exchange I wrote Sparrowhawk and Beeswax, which worked out really well (and nobody gets married in it). My Georgette Heyer impersonation! It's an Adam Lambert fic.
on AO3
Finally, there's The White Room, which is a futuristic Fuck Or Die/In Space AU. This one started out with The Scene I Wanted To Write, and I knew I had to do the set-up before I could write The Scene. Also, for the first ten minutes or so I thought it was going to be pure crack, but it turned out not to be. I had a surprising amount of fun figuring out what the world was like, and it was one of those fics that just flows and flows, and every time my fingers stopped typing, I'd go downstairs, make some coffee, or lunch, or wipe the kitchen surfaces, and when I got back to my computer there was more ready to be written. I think I only went down one false trail, briefly, and it was such an exciting writing experience. It's about 11,000 words and WARNING: consent issues are pretty much the heart of this.
on AO3
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