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Dear Yuletide person,
Thanks for writing for me! I look forward to seeing what you come up with, and hope you enjoy exploring the canon.
What I like hasn't changed much from previous years (including this sentence, which is copied over from at least last year's letter) - in general terms I like plot (particularly if you can surprise me with characters doing consistent but unexpected things), humour, and justified angst, not necessarily all at the same time. I am not all that fond of the present tense, but can be sucked in by a good story. I have no problem with sexual content (slash, het, etc) as long as it's appropriate to the story, and as long as it's not written either like an anatomy textbook or via excessively tortured metaphors. I like stories that make me remember why I love the original inspiration, as well as stories that make me think about it in a different light.
When I've listed characters, I've done so based on a desire to see them as important to the story, but that doesn't mean they have to be the protagonists or even there, as long as they're significant in some way. Looking at what I've chosen, one of the things that holds true for my three relatively sensible requests is that, in the source material, the characters are integral parts of their world; even when they try and change things, there's still an acknowledgment that they're very much part of the thing they're attacking.
This is new for this year - I would prefer there not to be any massive earthquakes in your story, as I have definitely met my quota for the year. I suspect this will not be particularly limiting, although if you have the sort of brain I do then sudden earthquakes will now seem like the only logical resolution to any number of plot dilemmas. Also, I signed up on deadline in a bit of a hurry, so have added some notes in italics.
( Kaze Hikaru. )
( Imajica, Clive Barker. )
( Snow Queen series, Joan D Vinge. )
( Rutshire Chronicles, Jilly Cooper. )
Thanks for writing for me! I look forward to seeing what you come up with, and hope you enjoy exploring the canon.
What I like hasn't changed much from previous years (including this sentence, which is copied over from at least last year's letter) - in general terms I like plot (particularly if you can surprise me with characters doing consistent but unexpected things), humour, and justified angst, not necessarily all at the same time. I am not all that fond of the present tense, but can be sucked in by a good story. I have no problem with sexual content (slash, het, etc) as long as it's appropriate to the story, and as long as it's not written either like an anatomy textbook or via excessively tortured metaphors. I like stories that make me remember why I love the original inspiration, as well as stories that make me think about it in a different light.
When I've listed characters, I've done so based on a desire to see them as important to the story, but that doesn't mean they have to be the protagonists or even there, as long as they're significant in some way. Looking at what I've chosen, one of the things that holds true for my three relatively sensible requests is that, in the source material, the characters are integral parts of their world; even when they try and change things, there's still an acknowledgment that they're very much part of the thing they're attacking.
This is new for this year - I would prefer there not to be any massive earthquakes in your story, as I have definitely met my quota for the year. I suspect this will not be particularly limiting, although if you have the sort of brain I do then sudden earthquakes will now seem like the only logical resolution to any number of plot dilemmas. Also, I signed up on deadline in a bit of a hurry, so have added some notes in italics.
( Kaze Hikaru. )
( Imajica, Clive Barker. )
( Snow Queen series, Joan D Vinge. )
( Rutshire Chronicles, Jilly Cooper. )
