Yuletide Reveals
Jan. 1st, 2021 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nomadicwriterI opted not to sign up for Yuletide officially this year, but I did still manage to write three treats for it. All humour fic for old favourite fandoms this time around.
Continuing last year's theme of writing for Discworld characters I haven't before, Monstrous Regiment fic! This was also my first attempt at writing a shippy Discworld fic, which I always feel is pretty tricky to pull off while keeping up the canon style of comedy. But, a bit like the Death books, Monstrous Regiment has its own slightly more sombre tone that gave me a little more room to work with. I actually scrapped the start of my original draft for this because I felt it was too gag-a-minute generic Discworld in a way that didn't quite match the mood of this specific book, but I'm pleased with how it eventually turned out.
Another Blackadder Goes Forth fic, which I also wrote for Yuletide all the way back in, yikes, 2015. Blackadder's POV is great fun to write, but also kind of gruelling in terms of the sheer density of jokes required to fill out an episode-style plot. Apparently I had no brainpower whatsoever leftover to think of a remotely witty summary.
I had three days left and I saw no one had written any Eroica fic yet this year, so I thought it would be a great fandom to come up with some sort of short, silly caper I could manage in the time remaining. Then I stared blankly into space for two of those days before finally coming up with an idea on Christmas Eve. "That's all right, it's only going to be a short fic anyway," I thought, and then spent all day getting bogged down in random bits of research on everything from 18th portrait miniatures to pedigree cat names to which types of trees are best and worst to climb. None of which was actually particularly important to the story, but hey.
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So, all in all, not my most productive Yuletide, but I'm pleased I managed to squeak in a few fics before the end of the year. I'm still vaguely hoping to actually write some more fic outside of Yuletide when I finally finish my Discworld reread, but then, I said the exact same thing last year, so who knows?
The Yunk and the Restless (Discworld: Monstrous Regiment)
Polly spends the night in a nest of vampires. It involves questionable accents, even more questionable nightclothes, and a certain amount of confusion over quite how she ended up classified as Maladicta's 'yunk lady'. (Polly/Mal, 3400 words)
Continuing last year's theme of writing for Discworld characters I haven't before, Monstrous Regiment fic! This was also my first attempt at writing a shippy Discworld fic, which I always feel is pretty tricky to pull off while keeping up the canon style of comedy. But, a bit like the Death books, Monstrous Regiment has its own slightly more sombre tone that gave me a little more room to work with. I actually scrapped the start of my original draft for this because I felt it was too gag-a-minute generic Discworld in a way that didn't quite match the mood of this specific book, but I'm pleased with how it eventually turned out.
Major Story (Blackadder)
Blackadder schemes to take advantage of Darling's talents. (Blackadder/Darling, 4800 words)
Another Blackadder Goes Forth fic, which I also wrote for Yuletide all the way back in, yikes, 2015. Blackadder's POV is great fun to write, but also kind of gruelling in terms of the sheer density of jokes required to fill out an episode-style plot. Apparently I had no brainpower whatsoever leftover to think of a remotely witty summary.
Cat Burglar (Eroica)
Dorian attempts to catch an elusive cat and an irritated major, with similar results all round. (1350 words)
I had three days left and I saw no one had written any Eroica fic yet this year, so I thought it would be a great fandom to come up with some sort of short, silly caper I could manage in the time remaining. Then I stared blankly into space for two of those days before finally coming up with an idea on Christmas Eve. "That's all right, it's only going to be a short fic anyway," I thought, and then spent all day getting bogged down in random bits of research on everything from 18th portrait miniatures to pedigree cat names to which types of trees are best and worst to climb. None of which was actually particularly important to the story, but hey.
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So, all in all, not my most productive Yuletide, but I'm pleased I managed to squeak in a few fics before the end of the year. I'm still vaguely hoping to actually write some more fic outside of Yuletide when I finally finish my Discworld reread, but then, I said the exact same thing last year, so who knows?