I wrote a Yuletide pinch-hit this year! Pinch hitting is my favorite way to participate in Yuletide-choosing exactly the story I want to write, knowing exactly how much time I have, racing the deadline, thinking of all the stories in the archive as my presents.

If you have not read the Thief books by Megan Whalen Turner, I highly recommend them. ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Author:

Thank you for taking up this challenge! I am so thrilled that you love either Foyle's War, the Little Women series, or the Dublin Murder Squad series! Thank you for writing for me! And thank you so much for your patience. I really appreciate it.

Rest assured that I will treasure anything you write. I want to reiterate that I ( Read more... )

Oh, and by the way, I wrote a story for Yuletide in 2008! The snow day reminded me. It was a very last-minute, very exhilarating pinch-hit for foxtwin.

Did you read Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles when you were young?

I did!

Did you adore them?

I did!

Have a little Fflewddur Fflam:

The Kindly King of Hummings and Strummings

by KB

( 'Dear me,' said Fflewddur Fflam, son of Godo, when the girl started to cry.' )

I almost forgot!

The story what I wrote for Yuletide:

A Temporary Arrangement [at the Yuletide site]
Swordspoint
Richard/Alec, set between Swordspoint and The Privilege of the Sword.
written for alice_montrose
Disclaimer: Swordspoint and its characters belong to Ellen Kushner. No profit made, no infringement or offense intended.

( “But he always kills with a single blow to the heart.” )

I am very, very lucky: I ended up with three (three!) stories through Yuletide, in three separate fandoms, and they're all truly delightful. I couldn't have dreamed of better gifts.

First, my assigned story:
The Midsummer Diaries, Slings and Arrows.
Maria's caustic, hilarious diary entries, in her first production as stage manager for A ( Read more... )

4:10pm I have an open, blank Word document and notes from last night scrawled on the back on an envelope. So far, today, I have: slept until one in the afternoon, read some livejournal posts, talked on the phone with R, eaten two pieces of toast with pumpkin butter, and read some irrelevant canon in the bathtub. Read some fic by my recipient. ( Read more... )

Last night, at an unreasonable hour, I offered to write 100 words for deliberatehips to cheer her up. 1218 words later ( Read more... )

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