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Not quite done with Yuletide recs, but in the meantime, here's what I wrote:
Title: and hate the bright stillness of the noon
Author: psocoptera
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yahtzee63
Fandom: Huge
Characters/Pairings: Amber/George, Dorothy/Wayne, minor Amber/Ian and Dorothy/Jonathan
Rating: teen
Wordcount: 12500
Warnings: underage (Amber is a camper, George is a counselor)
As Camp Victory faces a heat wave, Amber, George, and Dr. Rand struggle to make it through the last few weeks of camp.
and hate the bright stillness of the noon
This was really neat to write in three ways: one is that, after rounds of ruthless chopping to get already-brief stories down under 1000 words for that Last Author Standing thing, it was liberating to tell a more complicated story on as big a canvas as I wanted. Second, Amber/George wasn't a pairing I was particularly into coming into it, which I think ultimately made this a much stronger story; I can be pretty lazy in how I write shippy stuff, not bothering to put the grounds of my enthusiasm for a pairing into the story itself, and here I had to actually think about the 'ship and try to sell it, so it is for once more like a proper romance and not gen with a pairing tacked on. And lastly,carpenter and irilyth gave it a thorough beta going-over, which was an interesting and satisfying process. I don't usually bother with beta-reading - if I'm writing something in the first place, I'm probably already spending time on it that I don't really have, and the last thing I need to do is suck someone else in too - but for Yuletide I could justify it, and they made it immensely better. All of the structural problems and dubious word choices that aren't here any more are thanks to them. (Remaining ones are my own fault.)
Title: and hate the bright stillness of the noon
Author: psocoptera
Recipient:
yahtzee63Fandom: Huge
Characters/Pairings: Amber/George, Dorothy/Wayne, minor Amber/Ian and Dorothy/Jonathan
Rating: teen
Wordcount: 12500
Warnings: underage (Amber is a camper, George is a counselor)
As Camp Victory faces a heat wave, Amber, George, and Dr. Rand struggle to make it through the last few weeks of camp.
and hate the bright stillness of the noon
This was really neat to write in three ways: one is that, after rounds of ruthless chopping to get already-brief stories down under 1000 words for that Last Author Standing thing, it was liberating to tell a more complicated story on as big a canvas as I wanted. Second, Amber/George wasn't a pairing I was particularly into coming into it, which I think ultimately made this a much stronger story; I can be pretty lazy in how I write shippy stuff, not bothering to put the grounds of my enthusiasm for a pairing into the story itself, and here I had to actually think about the 'ship and try to sell it, so it is for once more like a proper romance and not gen with a pairing tacked on. And lastly,
carpenter and irilyth gave it a thorough beta going-over, which was an interesting and satisfying process. I don't usually bother with beta-reading - if I'm writing something in the first place, I'm probably already spending time on it that I don't really have, and the last thing I need to do is suck someone else in too - but for Yuletide I could justify it, and they made it immensely better. All of the structural problems and dubious word choices that aren't here any more are thanks to them. (Remaining ones are my own fault.)
