Tomorrow at 8pm my time is the cut-off to sign up for this year’s Yuletide Treasure project, the holiday exchange for obscure and underwritten fandom fiction.
I so enjoyed it last year. I’ve been looking forward to it all year. I thought about skipping it because I may end up really pressed for time right before Christmas, but I’d be too disappointed if I skipped it and then had time.
The hardest part is trying to figure out exactly what to request. I got a wonderful Lawrence of Arabia story last year (and a treat, a 300 story, too!). I think I may request Lawrence again, because there’s not nearly enough written in it. 300 is gone this year–I missed the nominations somehow, and it maybe have been disqualified for not being obscure enough, anyway. Stranger things have happened.
All I know is that between now and 8pm tomorrow night–and it’s not wise to wait until the last minute in case the database keeps breaking down–I need to sign up if I’m going to do it. I actually started making a list of fandoms I could write something in, and got tired after this many:
Allo Allo
Are You Being Served?
American Gothic
Appaloosa
Arrested Development
Constantine
John Dies at the End
Seachange
Someone Like You
District 9
Dexter
Galaxy Quest
Equilibrium
Forever Knight
Futurama
Ghost Town
Glee
Modern Famiy
Zombieland
Hot FUzz
Shawn of the Dead
The Road to El Dorado
Doctor Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog
True Blood
In Treatment
Tropic Thunder
King of the Hill
Kolchak
Life on Mars US
Blades of Glory
Public Enemies
Bolt (which I just saw last night)
There are more, but I got tired of looking at the list. I could offer them all (I just checked my email–I offered 17 last year) but I’d rather choose a handful that I’d be most excited about if I got it as my yuletide assignment. If I see a request in one of the others that really inspires, there are always treats or NYR stories. I love the challenge of writing something I’ve not done before.
The problem I have is that while I’m thinking about the characters I’d be willing to write, I end up with bunnies and scenarios, and then I just want to write the story. And when I think about the stories I’d like to get, I end up thinking about them and wanting to just go ahead and write them.
Now to figure out 3 requests! I think I’ll use at least 2 of my requests from last year. The other 2 fandoms aren’t on the list this year so I have to come up a one new one. So exciting!