Belated New Year's Post
Jan. 2nd, 2010 08:35 amHappy New Year! And let me join the chorus hoping that 2010 treats everybody a hell of a lot better than 2009 did. (Not that 2009 didn't have its moments!)
The main point of New Year's Day every year, of course, is that it is Yuletide Reveal Day!
My beloved Curse of Chalion gift story, Life, stripped of all luxuries, is by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
keerawa! Caz/Palli at Gotorget of my dreams! Thank you, keerawa!!
The story I wrote this year was forakamarykate, Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel series: The Season of Grace.
This assignment absolutely terrified me for a moment--I read Doomsday Book at a highly impressionable age, which may come as no surprise to people who are familiar with that book and the general trend of my writing. But I very quickly went from Oh God I have to write Kivrin to OH GOD I GET TO WRITE KIVRIN!!! Better yet, whenakamarykate put up her Dear Yulewriter letter, she asked something along the lines of "Would Kivrin ever go back?" and I thought Of course she'd nev--OF COURSE SHE WOULD and this story was born. I wound up rereading all of the Oxford Time Travel books/stories, so the story inevitably also contained traces of "Fire Watch" and To Say Nothing of the Dog.
I can't remember when I have so much loved writing a Yuletide story and so much loved the result, so THANK YOU,akamarykate, for the prompt!
Thanks also, of course, toiulia for beta, and everyone else who listened to me go on and on about this story. Title is from Vienna Teng's "Atheist Christmas Carol" - It's the season of grace coming out of the void, Where man is saved by a voice in the distance - which I provisionally retitled "Kivrin's Christmas Carol" after listening to it while working on this story. No seriously, Kivrin's theme song, srsly!
The main point of New Year's Day every year, of course, is that it is Yuletide Reveal Day!
My beloved Curse of Chalion gift story, Life, stripped of all luxuries, is by
keerawa! Caz/Palli at Gotorget of my dreams! Thank you, keerawa!!The story I wrote this year was for
akamarykate, Connie Willis' Oxford Time Travel series: The Season of Grace.This assignment absolutely terrified me for a moment--I read Doomsday Book at a highly impressionable age, which may come as no surprise to people who are familiar with that book and the general trend of my writing. But I very quickly went from Oh God I have to write Kivrin to OH GOD I GET TO WRITE KIVRIN!!! Better yet, when
akamarykate put up her Dear Yulewriter letter, she asked something along the lines of "Would Kivrin ever go back?" and I thought Of course she'd nev--OF COURSE SHE WOULD and this story was born. I wound up rereading all of the Oxford Time Travel books/stories, so the story inevitably also contained traces of "Fire Watch" and To Say Nothing of the Dog. I can't remember when I have so much loved writing a Yuletide story and so much loved the result, so THANK YOU,
akamarykate, for the prompt! Thanks also, of course, to
iulia for beta, and everyone else who listened to me go on and on about this story. Title is from Vienna Teng's "Atheist Christmas Carol" - It's the season of grace coming out of the void, Where man is saved by a voice in the distance - which I provisionally retitled "Kivrin's Christmas Carol" after listening to it while working on this story. No seriously, Kivrin's theme song, srsly!