Fandom Snowflake Challenge 2016 #9

[brightknightie]

#9. Set some goals for the new year.

As I said back in #1 of this meme, my fannish goal for this year is to engage more with y'all, to contribute to and enjoy the delights and trials of fandom. That's why I'm playing this meme! :-)

And of course if we play FKFicFest this year, then my goal for it is to help as many players as possible have as much fun as possible (without negatively affecting my job or health).

Outside any ficathons, I'd like to fulfill at least a good chunk of my outstanding fanfiction "gift certificates" by the end of the calendar year.

• For Celli: HL: Amanda's training with Rebecca (swords!)
• For Lightbird: FK: Janette (Janette&Natalie if possible)
• For Leela: FK: Janette&Urs (heart to heart)
• For Skieswideopen: FK: Janette forced to interact with the mortal world
• For Carabas: FK: St. Joan, a "For I Have Sinned" tag
• For Ravenela: HL: Tessa behaving maternally toward Richie's girlfriend
• For Wendymypooh: FK: Nick's secret is in danger of being revealed, and only Natalie and/or Schanke can save the day.
• For Blueteak: FK: Nick and LaCroix pre-canon, and/or the first time Nick appreciates something LaCroix teaches him
• For PJ1228: FK: Nick's secret being discovered
• For Falcon_horus: FK: Fleur (preferably something with Nick and Fleur together)

Did I forget any?

And — while I'm dreaming big — I'd really like to write at least one just-because, for-me-first, fanfiction-o'-my-heart. Either the Nick/Urs story that I've nattered about from time to time since last spring, or a certain story titled "Amaranth" that I began in 1997. Or something wholly new that will strike my imagination like a quickening.

Comments

[senmut]

I wish you energy, time, and willingness that all coincide, to do this.

[brightknightie]

Thank you!

[havocthecat]

I think writing the fanfiction(s) of your heart is the most important goal, but I like the other goals too!

[brightknightie]

Thank you!

:-) It's so peculiar how -- in my little fannish milieu, at least -- writing the story that truly seizes your own imagination has come to such a pass beside writing the story that someone else, possibly a stranger, possibly with completely incompatible tastes, certainly on a deadline and at restricted length, strove to articulate a clear request for. :-)

[pj1228]

Good luck with your plans. I'm looking forward to reading all FK stories, in particular those you intend to write for me and Blueteak. :) Awesome prompts.
I'm currently busy with a story for Blueteak myself.

[brightknightie]

Kudos to the requesters for the prompts! I'm currently dwelling on Celli's Highlander prompt, and also Falcon_horus's Fleur prompt.

Because of the large difference in Nick and Fleur's ages, and the custom of sending boys away to be pages (and then squires and knights) in other households, Nick is unlikely to have grown up with his little sister in the kind of day-to-day way that would give lots of scope for childhood interactions between them. I can always have the household that Nick serves come to visit Nick's father's court, if needed! But I'm thinking up other times Nick and Fleur might have encountered each other in their most likely historical cultural context. Their father's death is one big possibility, although that wouldn't be quite what Falcon_horus has in mind.