My inadvertent participation in Yuletide

[cnoocy]

So I wasn't actually going to participate in Yuletide.* I had plenty of stuff to do before we traveled down to Tennessee for the holiday, and all my fanfiction is in drabbles.** So a 1000-word story to a specified fandom seemed beyond me.

But then Yuletide Madness started, which is when the unclaimed prompts go open for people to write shorter work for. Which led to mail from jadelennox pointing me at schemingreader's very open prompt for the Beatles album Revolver. And that's just too much fun to turn down. At first I thought I was going to write just one drabble about one song. Then I thought I'd write different drabbles for each track. Then in the shower a structure for the album asserted itself. By the end of the day I had 3 written and a thought about the remaining 11. A busy Christmas Eve of writing and a little conversation with JL and I had written a 1400-word drabble sequence and posted it as an actual Yuletide contribution. It was just a lot of fun to write. I like making things. I think my New Year's resolution is to make more things this year.

"Revolver" by cnoocy


* A yearly small-fandom fanfiction exchange. For more details google "Yuletide".
** 100-word very short stories.

Comments

[jadelennox]

You don't have many fannish people on your list, but technically you shouldn't admit which story you've written until reveal on new year's eve. Which is the only reason I didn't squee about your awesome story today. :D

[cnoocy]

D'oh! Is that a huge deal or more of a tradition?

[jadelennox]

It's a rule of sorts, but I think if you lock this post you'll be fine. As long as the recipient doesn't know -- and she's not on your flist, so I assume she doesn't -- it's all cool.

I mean, no one will get mad that a first timer didn't know all of the obscure shit!

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Wow, well done. I'm not very familiar with the Beatles (cut me a break, I was born in the '90s) but I liked the story.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

This was amazing. Nicely done!