Writing and Exchanges

[rodo]

No progress on my longfic (surprise, surprise), but I have been working on my Yuletide fic, and it’s currently being betaed. Hopefully, I’ll end up writing a treat as well, but my mood is kind of down even though I love the requests I’m eyeing and even though Yuletide is my favourite exchange.

In sum, I think I need to step back a bit when it comes to exchanges. I participated in five events this year (not counting treats), which is a personal best, but also, kind of a mixed bag, all things considered. Since I’m into small fandoms almost exclusively, there’s very few exchanges I can participate in without ending up as a lingering PH. I don’t mind that happening occasionally, but I probably won’t do fandom5k again after holding up the exchange for ages, even if I ended up getting a great story in the end. The wank was not fun and I don’t need a repeat of that.

So, in light of the fact that there’s very few exchanges that are big enough for my tiny fandoms to not matter (just one, since chocolateboxcomm isn’t running this time), and there being basically only one exchange left that does my preferred matching preference (characters, no ships), I think I will just do Yuletide next year. And maybe fandomgiftbasket, but that’s not an exchange.

Comments

[vriddy]

Fwiw, someone stepped up to fill in for the chocolate box exchange at candyheartsex, with rules mostly similar! Nominations open up next week, we'll see if it gets as big and small-fandom-friendly... :)

Congrats on the Yuletide progress! :D

[rodo]

I saw that, but I'm not sure it'll draw the same amount of people as Chocolate Box, so I'm still waffling about taking part in it. But maybe the round after, since I don't expect Chocolate Box to be back.