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[pensnest]

Well, so Yuletide authors are revealed! I wrote a Lord Peter Wimsey story, The Preparation of a Gentleman's Nursery, rubbish title but I was very happy with the story that resulted. And my recipient was happy, too, so all is well! Also, I got more kudos on that story than I probably have in total for other stories on AO3 that I wrote (some are under my name because I podficced), which is weird but kinda gratifying.

I've also been back to the story written for me, Before the Deluge by Ione, and have been exploring the author's other works, among which I am delighted to find several Heyer and Austen-derived stories. If you haven't found them and have a yen for some Regency fic (one way or another), I recommend taking a look.

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It seems like a good moment to remind myself of what else I wrote during 2021, which turns out to be not very much. These were all written for the fandomgiftbox exchange, which to my sorrow seemed to disintegrate into nothingness. I think I might even have written more had there been a bit more modly encouragement. Still, there resulted these:

Sea-Colored Eyes for turps (Popslash, of course)

Pepsi and Chateauneuf du Pape for xslytherclawx (a Mad Men story which just... arrived, much to my surprise)

And two Star Trek: The Next Generation stories: Stuck in the Big Chair, a Riker story for sixbeforelunch, and An Odd State of Flux, a Data story for River_Song.

A total for the year of a little over 11,000 words, which is not fabulous but is a heck of a lot better than I thought i would manage. The previous year's total of around 30,000 words was more, and hard wrung, but written by expanding a story that already existed.

I'd never written either a Mad Men or a Wimsey story before, so I'm quite pleased to have expanded my fannish vocabulary a bit. Yuletide I declare a personal success, so I'll definitely be having another go, and perhaps a more prolific go, in 2022.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

Go you!

[pensnest]

:-D

[turps]

That's great that your Yuletide went so well.

You should have all the kudos!

[brandywine28]

Your Wimsey story showed up in my inbox the other morning and I've been saving it for a day when I can focus. Which...hasn't come yet. Ugh.

But I'm giving you some pre-emptive kudos anyway! Such is my faith in your Yuletide-y talents!

[pensnest]

Hah, splendid. I suspect it's a story that will work best for people who are very familiar with the Wimsey canon up to and including 'Thrones, Dominations'. If you're not among them, it may be a bit anodyne.