Fic!

[deense]

Now that Yuletide has been revealed I can say which stories I wrote!

My original story for slowascent:
The True Memoirs of Anthony Blunt.
Cambridge Spies
Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess (with mentions of Julian Bell)
PG/Gen, 2307 words
I loved this prompt. She wanted Anthony and Guy, and as I have a hard time slashing them, I wrote a gen-recollection. Inspired partially by her dear author letter and her love of the sin of pride, and in part by the actual -- rather apologist -- memoirs of Anthony's that were made public earlier this past year. I couldn't have done it without misspeacock and moonlight69 who were brilliant betas and helped me with the worst of my bad habits.

Whilst I didn't pick up a pinch-hit this year (first time!) I did decide to write two more stories for people who's original writers defaulted.

Epilogue
Sanctuary
Will Zimmerman, Henry Foss
PG/Gen, 1642 words
I agree with many that Sanctuary doesn't get near enough fandom love. This is a piece set after the events of 2.03, just the two guys trying to deal with what's happened, and not particularly well. I couldn't have done this without the encouragement of Ames and the #Yuletide chat.

Only Just Ordinary
Sanctuary
Nikola Tesla, Helen Magnus
PG/Gen with hints of something else, 1640 words
When Ames came up on the Yuletide Pinch Hit list I HAD to do this, even though it wasn't assigned to me. Flashing from the past to the present it shows Nikola and Helen's relationship, something that has always intrigued me, and apparently Ames as well. Unbetad because it was minutes before the archive closed.

So there we go. My fic writing adventures in Yuletide this past year.

I did join getyourwordsout in order to try and encourage myself to write more in the next year. Woohoo!

Comments

[carta.livejournal.com]

My pinch-hit stories were so good this year that I glad my writer defaulted. :D I was totally spoiled this yuletide, yay!

[deensey.livejournal.com]

I think there's a balance of being extra lucky when you have good prompts and your writer defaults. Cause lots of people want to write for you. ;p Not that I'd recommend it, but it's nice. Plus, you were awesome in Yulechat.

[misspeacock.livejournal.com]

I meant to tell you - Tal emailed me right after Yuletide was posted, insisting I go read your fic (not knowing it was your fic) because it was so excellent.

I don't think you could have a better endorsement. :D

[deensey.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just.. Wow.

[misspeacock.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE JUST THAT AWESOME, DEENSE.

[deensey.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I'm amazed!