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Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

This sin is definitely not a behavior I'd recommend and I hope I never find myself in the same situation.

A few years ago, I got an assignment that I drew an absolute blank on. Sparse requests, likes and DNWs, no letter. And I could think of absolutely NOTHING to write.

Usually as soon as I get my assignment I start jotting down ideas, but this one had me just sitting in front of a blank document and staring.

It didn't faze me at first, because I figured I had time, but life and other exchanges distracted me. And I was eager for a gift in one of my fandoms so I did not want to default... and then the no penalty deadline passed... and I still had nothing on the page.

Then it was two days before THE DEADLINE. Still absolutely stony blank nothing.

I panicked, and ended up dredging up a drawerfic I had written for a megafandom ages ago that I had never posted due to falling out of love with the fandom. I did a find and replace for the character names and posted it.

I used the editing time to tweak it, and found that the scenario was actually pretty IC for the requested characters, and just cut out the bits that didn't apply, renamed a few places, etc... and still had a well above the minimum fic.

The recip absolutely adored their gift, and the fic was recced in several different places. But deep down I still felt face-burning shame and was tempted for the longest time to anon the story.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

You have it all wrong You're an inspiration

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

You must have been a lot better at find-and-replacing than some of the doozies I've seen over the years. /battle-hardened sometimes mod

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think there's anything wrong with that. You edited it so make it fit the request, so it doesn't matter what it was pre-edits. Before edits, a lot of fics are crap.

Also, I have about two dozen scenarios in my head that each could fit about 20 of my fandoms. (In fact, that's why they aren't getting written! I can't decide which ship to write them for.) Sometimes one story just fits a bunch of different fandom/characters/ships.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

TBH, coalie, there's a lot of migratory slash fandom fic that feels like this was done. Only it wasn't pulled off as successfully.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

+1 million