The Coalies Are Back In Town

[coalcube]

Friday night they'll be dressed to kill
Down at Coaltide Bar'n'Grill
The receipts will flow and wank will spill
And if the coalies wanna fight, you better let 'em
That jukebox in the corner blastin' out my favorite song
The nights are getting longer, it won't be long
Won't be long 'til Yuletide comes
Now that the coalies are here again

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Re: Your Yuletide Writing Traditions

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I start thinking very abstractly about requests I like during the letters phase but I usually let it percolate all the way till early December. Most of my treat writing is right around the week of the deadline up until reveals.

I usually loop a single track for each fic, or go with silence. I used to like plotting in a coffee shop and then going home to write.

I've never written tipsy but I have written on so little sleep as to be drunk. It helps actually get the words out and then the editing fixes the incoherency. After a run is also good for a calmer go at it. I really like holiday days where I can sort of peck during the otherwise hard to find daylight hours.

Yuletide is when I fire up a special word processor! Because procrastinating using my tools as an excuse is The Way.

I like doing a beta or two, and like to find one for myself as a social activity more than anything else. I never use betas outside of Yuletide and am confident in my own writing, but I love the community spirit and meeting new people. I've had some great ideas from jamming with a good beta.

It's not Yuletide if I'm not canon reviewing unnecessarily and researching unnecessarily details that 99.999% don't turn up in the fic!