Yuletide insanity

[valarltd]

I did it again. I signed up for yuletide and offered to write in 109 different fandoms. Everything from Weird Al's UHF to Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, 1984 to Winnie the Pooh, plus 105 others.

It's going to be fun this year!

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[rgbrobbie.livejournal.com]

I'm just curious - and I don't mean this with any disrespect - about how someone feels competent and confident about writing in, well, over 100 fandoms. Not to mention "ANY" pairing within! My mind... gosh, not only does it not work that way, it can't comprehend how anyone else's could. I looked through the yuletide process and, flinching all the while at that, could MAYBE find my way to writing in about four fandoms. (And at that, one of them I'd have to add to the list myself, it's so obscure.)

Is it that your interests are pan-fannish? Do you have a spectacular memory? Do you feed your Muse excesses of sugar and caffeine? ;) Seriously. I'd like your perspective on your process.

(Me, I am and always have been serially monogamous in fandom, with somewhat narrow and predictable interests, so just by my very nature, my pool of writing experience with respect to multiple fandoms is pretty darn shallow....)

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

All the above.

I am a fandom whore. I am never confident about the smaller fandoms, but I have this junk heap memory, and will do fine.

Basically, anything I thought I could write, I volunteered for. It just broadens my chances of getting something I can actually write.

(And I'll just have to do a refresher on anything I get)

[rgbrobbie.livejournal.com]

And I applaud you for your spirit! Wow.

In my life, I've successfully written (and by that I mean, wrestled a story to completion AND distributed it outside my own minimal circle) in six, maybe eight, fandoms, tops. (Let's see... Doctor Who. Phantom of the Opera. Highlander. Dark Justice. Real Ghostbusters. Starsky & Hutch. And I know I'm missing a couple here.) I could MAYBE write in a few more that I dabbled in but never fully committed to (a couple anime series, maybe vintage Trek, vintage Wild Wild West, even Here Come the Brides - remember that?) but I've really got to reach. And it dawns on me that I could probably write sitcom fanfic (my guilty pleasures are "Friends" and "Will and Grace") but who wants that?

So, you see, even reaching, I can identify less than twenty fandoms I have enough knowledge of to even name. Reviewing the list for yuletide I do have to say ::hanging my head in shame:: that the vast majority, I DID NOT EVEN RECOGNIZE.

Still, I just might sign up. Even for "Will and Grace." ;)