I just sent my story for the Marvel Crossing fiction exchange at LiveJournal. The point, as you can probably guess, was to write a crossover between two Marvel comic book movies, or one Marvel and another non-Marvel comic book movie, if that’s what your recipient requested and you agreed to write, of course.
I love my assignment choices and actually almost ended up writing two of them, but I didn’t have time. The one I did came in at just under 5,000 words–these things only ever have to be 1,000 words, but I often feel like, given more time, I’d end up with a novella–and there still wasn’t time to put everything I wanted in.
It was big fun to write, and a great excuse to revisit the source material, one of which I’d only actually seen one time. I think the reveal is the 21st, but the mod said that she was going to post stories whenever everyone had one in the queue, so they could potentially come earlier, I guess. I can’t wait to read the story that’s been written for me!
I’m also looking forward to seeing the prompts in this year’s HappyFest. This should start tomorrow or sometime this week, as the prompt session is over. You choose a prompt and write comment-length fiction that’s actually happy. I wrote two last year and it was a fun change of pace. I wrote this Bill/Sookie fanfic based on the prompt “pie,” (especially fun and interesting since I’m not a Bill/Sookie girl–go Team ERIC) and the story Instinct based on the prompt Spock/McCoy snark. I didn’t submit any writing prompts for the HappyFest, but I hope there are at last a couple that spark an idea.
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