One the one that's all alone and ever more shall be so

[amanuensis1]

Yuletide fic is finished! I should be banned from writing in that style; it's criminally easy for me to slip into that kind of voice. The format, though, is one I don't think I've tried before, so that was enough to give me gleeful cackles.

Writing for these small Yuletide fandoms gives me the sense of That's it; there is no other story I can ever write for this fandom; that was the behind-the-scenes tale I wanted to see told, and that's all I have for it, even if I didn't really have any idea what behind-the-scenes tale I wanted to write for that fandom until the recipient requested it. Somehow just one story solidifies, and I feel as if know that's the only one I can write for that fandom ever; the wad is shot. Does that happen to anyone else?

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[mctabby.livejournal.com]

*nods*

That's just what happened to me in Yuletide 2005, when I wrote some backstory for A Little Princess. I still feel I have nothing further to say for that fandom.

Y'know how it is... life is short, art is long... there's an infinite number of monkeys tiny fandoms... yadda yadda... movin' on now... Next!

Sounds like you're having yourself some good Yuletidery this year. Nice to hear. :)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It took me a few years to discover Yuletide, but now I love it. For a time, all I could do was look through the list of fandoms and sigh that the canon I most wanted to read or write was too big for Yuletide, but then I stopped being afraid of fandoms that I didn't know perfectly, trusting I could find something to say about each one if someone else wanted it badly enough.

(It also helps that there isn't just one single fandom that has my entire attention these days...sad, but that happens!)

[mctabby.livejournal.com]

Not sad, surely? IMHO, the more multi-fandom you are, the more you can enjoy Yuletide as a glorious huge candy-store that flings open its doors each 25th December for reading-gluttony. :D

*twitches in anticipation*