Yuletide reveal
1 January 2020 14:46![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
landofnowhereFor this Yuletide I wrote a treat for laulan: Make it Better, Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones: Wizard Claudia, Costamaret Distinguished Professor of Quantitative Enchantment, Dean of Students, Head of the Committee on Diversity and Interspecies Accessibility and Member of so many others, gets a tap on the window from an old griffin friend.
The story behind this: a few days before Christmas,rachelmanija posted to encourage people to write treats for Yuletide! I haven't really written fiction of any sort in years, I'd been meaning to try some fanfic ever since I got more involved with Dreamwidth. So this seemed like a good chance to try it out, especially once I found a request that fit well with a fanfic idea I'd already had (an older version of the YotG gang dealing with the challenges of academia), but the suggestion to focus on Claudia and Elda helped me focus the story and give it an actual arc.
I enjoyed writing it quite a bit -- and will try to make time for more fic exchanges in the future. This story is definitely very much "write what you know"; stressed academic POV comes very naturally to me, but I hope to expand my range in the future.
laulan: Make it Better, Year of the Griffin, Diana Wynne Jones: Wizard Claudia, Costamaret Distinguished Professor of Quantitative Enchantment, Dean of Students, Head of the Committee on Diversity and Interspecies Accessibility and Member of so many others, gets a tap on the window from an old griffin friend.The story behind this: a few days before Christmas,
rachelmanija posted to encourage people to write treats for Yuletide! I haven't really written fiction of any sort in years, I'd been meaning to try some fanfic ever since I got more involved with Dreamwidth. So this seemed like a good chance to try it out, especially once I found a request that fit well with a fanfic idea I'd already had (an older version of the YotG gang dealing with the challenges of academia), but the suggestion to focus on Claudia and Elda helped me focus the story and give it an actual arc.I enjoyed writing it quite a bit -- and will try to make time for more fic exchanges in the future. This story is definitely very much "write what you know"; stressed academic POV comes very naturally to me, but I hope to expand my range in the future.
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Date: 2 Jan 2020 21:14 (UTC)