Yuletide nominations
Sep. 21st, 2021 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI'm trying to figure out what to nominate. I've promoted Flight of the Heron and Flemington over on the YT promotion post, and for sure I will nominate and request Flemington, because there needs to be more fic for that.
For FotH, I'm not sure. I want to promote it as a fandom, obviously, but I am bad at writing prompts for it! In my past major fandom, due South, I wrote mostly short-length. I had lots of ideas and was good at writing ideas/prompts for exchanges. But it seems that FotH is a novel-length fandom for me, writing-wise, and I have correspondingly fewer ideas with which to prompt people with. Perhaps this is just the nature of the canon influencing my writing: a rather episodic TV show compared to a novel? Do you find that the nature of canon influences you that way?
Anyway, perhaps I could simply describe what I enjoy about canon, and what I enjoy in general terms, without giving ideas/prompts as I usually do in exchanges? I find that, with other people's FotH fic, the ones I enjoy most are often the ones which I would never have thought of myself (such asregshoe's No Man Can Shun It).
As for other requests/nominations, hmmm. I don't feel the same impulse towards fic with Broster's other books. But I could definitely recycle my Left Hand of Darkness request, especially now when the exchange allows for requesting worldbuilding, which is what I always wanted for it!
What are your ideas? Is there any canon which you feel I ought to be reminded of?
For FotH, I'm not sure. I want to promote it as a fandom, obviously, but I am bad at writing prompts for it! In my past major fandom, due South, I wrote mostly short-length. I had lots of ideas and was good at writing ideas/prompts for exchanges. But it seems that FotH is a novel-length fandom for me, writing-wise, and I have correspondingly fewer ideas with which to prompt people with. Perhaps this is just the nature of the canon influencing my writing: a rather episodic TV show compared to a novel? Do you find that the nature of canon influences you that way?
Anyway, perhaps I could simply describe what I enjoy about canon, and what I enjoy in general terms, without giving ideas/prompts as I usually do in exchanges? I find that, with other people's FotH fic, the ones I enjoy most are often the ones which I would never have thought of myself (such as
regshoe's No Man Can Shun It). As for other requests/nominations, hmmm. I don't feel the same impulse towards fic with Broster's other books. But I could definitely recycle my Left Hand of Darkness request, especially now when the exchange allows for requesting worldbuilding, which is what I always wanted for it!
What are your ideas? Is there any canon which you feel I ought to be reminded of?
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Date: 2021-09-21 06:59 pm (UTC)I've pretty much decided on nominating Jill and A Glass of Blessings, but I do not know what my third nomination will be—Flight of the Heron is one amongst several options...
Do you find that the nature of canon influences you that way?
That's a good question! I know that, for instance, for Ewen/Keith I find it harder to write very short fics, simply because of the amount of work required to set up the pairing if you start from things as they are in the book—whereas for Raffles/Bunny, my other most-written ship, you can pretty much dip into canon wherever and just assume they're already together. And I suppose that is related to Raffles being a more episodic canon.
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Date: 2021-09-22 08:12 pm (UTC)Oh, Jill, thanks for reminding me! I don't think I'll request it, but I'm glad you are.
If you like, I can nominate FotH. Any particular characters you want nominated besides Keith and Ewen?
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Date: 2021-09-23 07:52 pm (UTC)Oh, thank you :) Could you nominate Aunt Margaret and Worldbuilding? (I haven't decided what I want to request yet—lots of options...)
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