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I've spent all my hobby time for the past several weeks on my femme_fic story.  One kind beta-reader has already looked at it and, because of the grace period, it will get another scrub.  Here's hoping it will be at least the sum of its parts.

It's not FK, which is why I haven't been posting.  (Well, that and life... you know the drill.)  I've written outside FK before, of course, but this is my first go at this particular fandom (BtVS), and it's also my longest story yet outside FK.  I noticed that given an FK prompt, I tend to rewatch one relevant episode many times, but given a non-FK prompt, I tend to try to review (literally, re-view) all remotely relevant canon.  I think perhaps I must adjust my scale the next time out, as much_madness often tells me. :-)

This second femme_fic event marks the first anniversary of my ficathon participation.  They're a lot like list challenges, but the exchange aspect and the deadline are key differences that really ramped up my production.  I just wish I had more hobby time to go around!

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[endcredits.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm horribly excited at the thought of Buffy femme_fic from you.

I hear you on the 'needing to completely digest canon' thing. I'm awful for this, which is probably why I never finish things. Even in fandoms I'm quite active in, I still never feel that I have a decent grasp on canon, so I re-watch and re-watch and ... then get jaded. It's a sickness.

[brightknightie.livejournal.com]

>"Okay, I'm horribly excited at the thought of Buffy femme_fic from you."

Thank you! That's very flattering! I hope it will be worth your time to read. I usually decide on a theme first, and then scout up a plot to carry it; this time, I found a plot first.

>"I hear you on the 'needing to completely digest canon' thing."

This is partly why I started documenting all FK canon (http://users.lmi.net/akr/fk/faq/index.htm). ;-) It's partly an obsession with getting it right, of course, not to mention the drilled need to cite my sources, but it's also about the size and shape and feel of the canon universe from the inside.

[pj1228.livejournal.com]

I wish I had the time to focus like that on finishing at least one of my 10 FK stories in progress...

I'm curiously awaiting your BtVS-story. I've never read any fanfic outside of FK yet.