Yuletiding . . .
Nov. 30th, 2009 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dbskylerI've been having a very interesting time with the Yuletide challenge. A brief summary:
-- Dither over whether I should sign up or not, dither over which fandoms I should offer / request, sign up, and have the "oh my God, I can't believe I'm really going to do this!" moment.
-- Worry over the request I'm going to receive and the fandom it's going to be in.
-- Get the request! And it's a great request, and something I can do! Get tremendously excited.
-- Start to work on the fic, and start to think I can't do the request after all.
-- Continue to worry that I am not fulfilling what my recipient actually wants. This is partly based on the fact that I write the first 700 words without one of the requested characters making an appearance.
-- Think that I might need to dump my 700 words and start completely over.
-- Decide to continue on in this direction and see where it takes me. Hope that it takes me to somewhere in the vicinity of what my recipient requested. Roughly. Ish.
-- Spend three solid days over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend writing.
-- Finish the fic and stare at it.
Yep, I have finished my Yuletide fic, and it's not even December yet! I know, I can't believe it either. I also had no problem with the 1,000-word limit. Of course, it still needs to be beta'ed (working on getting a beta-reader now), and I might still find all sorts of things I want to change in it, but, um . . . yeah. I even think (hope) that it might be somewhere along the lines of what my recipient wants.
Oh, and I also reallly, really like it. Unfortunately, I now have a long wait until people will be able to actually read it. I knew there were advantages to procrastination . . . ; )
-- Dither over whether I should sign up or not, dither over which fandoms I should offer / request, sign up, and have the "oh my God, I can't believe I'm really going to do this!" moment.
-- Worry over the request I'm going to receive and the fandom it's going to be in.
-- Get the request! And it's a great request, and something I can do! Get tremendously excited.
-- Start to work on the fic, and start to think I can't do the request after all.
-- Continue to worry that I am not fulfilling what my recipient actually wants. This is partly based on the fact that I write the first 700 words without one of the requested characters making an appearance.
-- Think that I might need to dump my 700 words and start completely over.
-- Decide to continue on in this direction and see where it takes me. Hope that it takes me to somewhere in the vicinity of what my recipient requested. Roughly. Ish.
-- Spend three solid days over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend writing.
-- Finish the fic and stare at it.
Yep, I have finished my Yuletide fic, and it's not even December yet! I know, I can't believe it either. I also had no problem with the 1,000-word limit. Of course, it still needs to be beta'ed (working on getting a beta-reader now), and I might still find all sorts of things I want to change in it, but, um . . . yeah. I even think (hope) that it might be somewhere along the lines of what my recipient wants.
Oh, and I also reallly, really like it. Unfortunately, I now have a long wait until people will be able to actually read it. I knew there were advantages to procrastination . . . ; )
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Date: 2009-12-01 04:05 pm (UTC)And now my parents are gone, so here I go to review canon.