Deep thoughts on the Writing Process
Jan. 1st, 2006 04:07 amSo, I wrote How the Ghosts Stole Christmas for Yuletide. My recipient mentioned crack (a couple times) in her Yuletide suggestions post, so I took her at her word and went poking through her archives for a crossover fandom that could make Nip/Tuck a little more cracktastic. The fic crosses two fandoms that I'm pretty sure haven't met before, name-checks another in the story and takes its title from a fourth. I wish I'd had a little more time to work on it, but it seemed to go over well where it counted, so I'm happy.
The story I got (and this was a boom year for Nip/Tuck, wasn't it? I think the amount of fic in that fandom may have doubled with this year's Yuletide crop alone) turns out to have been written by
rivkat, with whom I was only tangentially familiar prior to this but who, it would seem, wrote a high-quality 64K AU fic, with in-character gay sex and a plot, for a total stranger, during the holiday season, with A VERY YOUNG BABY IN THE HOUSE. Clearly she is a powerhouse of both fandom and motherhood, and I salute her. (ETA: This fic is also an awesome stealth crossover that I completely missed when I first read it, which makes me feel pretty dim since I also picked out a fandom from my recipient's previous work and crossed it over with Nip/Tuck for my premise.)
Here's to another damn good year of Yuletide, and to SLEEP!
The story I got (and this was a boom year for Nip/Tuck, wasn't it? I think the amount of fic in that fandom may have doubled with this year's Yuletide crop alone) turns out to have been written by
Here's to another damn good year of Yuletide, and to SLEEP!