Yuletide reveal!
Jan. 1st, 2010 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinaedAs you may or may not be aware *grin* the Yuletide authors were revealed today.
For the first time ever, I managed to write a Yuletide Treat as well as a fic for my original recipient. They were both fun to write, but the former is definitely the closest to my heart. It was so interesting to write.
Forcalliope85, I wrote a Regeneration (Pat Barker) story: Such Delight As Prisoned Birds Must Find In Freedom. For those of you who have never heard of the book before (which is probably all of my flist), Regeneration is the first book of a Regeneration trilogy set during WWI. It revolves around Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and William Rivers, a psychiatrist who works with Sassoon at Craiglockhart, the hospital Sassoon and Owen went to during the war after shell-shock. It's a brilliant, amazing series, and it was so great to research WWI and especially the real life relationship between Sassoon and Rivers. Emulating Barker's beautifully stark prose was a challenge, but then, I enjoy a challenge. I wrote Ursula Le Guin Earthsea fic last Yuletide, after all.
My Yuletide Treat was for spicy_diamond, and it's a Yozakura Quartet story called Swept By the Tempest Of Your Love. Yozakura Quartet is a short manga/anime revolving around a town and its literal demons. I had a lot of fun getting into Kyosuke's head and examining his devotion to Hime, the young mayor of the town.
For the first time ever, I managed to write a Yuletide Treat as well as a fic for my original recipient. They were both fun to write, but the former is definitely the closest to my heart. It was so interesting to write.
For
calliope85, I wrote a Regeneration (Pat Barker) story: Such Delight As Prisoned Birds Must Find In Freedom. For those of you who have never heard of the book before (which is probably all of my flist), Regeneration is the first book of a Regeneration trilogy set during WWI. It revolves around Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, and William Rivers, a psychiatrist who works with Sassoon at Craiglockhart, the hospital Sassoon and Owen went to during the war after shell-shock. It's a brilliant, amazing series, and it was so great to research WWI and especially the real life relationship between Sassoon and Rivers. Emulating Barker's beautifully stark prose was a challenge, but then, I enjoy a challenge. I wrote Ursula Le Guin Earthsea fic last Yuletide, after all. My Yuletide Treat was for spicy_diamond, and it's a Yozakura Quartet story called Swept By the Tempest Of Your Love. Yozakura Quartet is a short manga/anime revolving around a town and its literal demons. I had a lot of fun getting into Kyosuke's head and examining his devotion to Hime, the young mayor of the town.
