Yuletide Hijinks

[przed]

I finished my main Yuletide story well ahead of time, so when I saw a pinch hit for a canon I adore and know extremely well, I thought what the heck and grabbed it. This in spite of the four days before the pinch hit deadline being taken up by me attending and volunteering at the virtual side of WorldCon. I'll just write a thousand words, I thought. It'll be fine, I thought.

In the end, I spent most of Sunday banging out a 4K word story that involved lots of googling picky story details, and posted a complete draft at 2 a.m., two hours ahead of the 4 a.m. deadline.

Since I pretty much just vomited out the words (which was actually kinda nice, after having been blocked a good part of these pandemic times) I figured it was going to need a LOT of editing. But I just did a pass through, and it wasn't terrible! It might even be not bad?! Maybe even pretty good?!

Now to see if I can manage a treat or two before the final deadline...

Comments

[dorinda]

Daaaaaaaaaaang! You are a holidaytime hero. :D :D :D

I'll just write a thousand words, I thought. It'll be fine, I thought.

Of course this made me laugh and laugh... Such lovely shiny paving on the road to hell.

[przed]

We’ll, I’m something, but I don’t know if hero is quite the right word. 😬

And yeah, that paving was mighty shiny. (I had a plan! It was only two scenes! I just overlooked the 2,000 words of setup it would take to get to those two scenes. 🤨)