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0052 | in which I stress about Yuletide
Saturday, 20 December 2014 06:16 pm► ...I should have looked at this questionnaire-thing more closely, because today's topic is a variation on a question I hate answering: Three Of Your All-Time Favorite Books. (I just really hate being asked for what my "favorite" of anything is, because I very rarely only have one, single favorite.)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is my default answer to this question, as it's the closest thing I have to a "favorite". I read it for the first time when I was in the fifth grade, and I remember thinking that I had never read something so beautiful before. Each time I read it, I'm in awe.
Northanger Abbey is my favorite Jane Austen novel. Not only does it have my favorite love interests in the form Henry Tilney, it also has one of my favorite heroines and my favorite main pairing in an Austen novel. Plus, it's just an incredibly amusing read— I grin all the way through it, and I'm convinced that it had what is perhaps the best opening chapter I have ever read.
Finally, I also really love Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde. It satisfies my love for dragons (particularly those in human form), inhuman characters who don't act like they're just humans with special powers, and an excellent subtle romance. If you think that I don't ship Selendrile/Alys hard, then you are wrong, because I really, really do.
► Yesterday, I had a mildly panicky moment. I... thought that Yuletide fics were due at 18:00 (in my time zone) today. Then I checked out the countdown timer they provided on the post, and I am so glad I did, because I was very, very wrong— they were actually due at 11:00 in the morning.
I'd already outlined and worked a little bit on my fic, so I wasn't completely screwed over, but I definitely ended up staying very late to finish writing it. I'm... not completely happy with it, since the direction it went in meant that I couldn't write about quite a few things I'd meant to cover. Still, it's finished now. Maybe I'll write a few treats now, if I can find the motivation / don't get completely distracted by Dragon's Age. Or maybe not. We'll see.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is my default answer to this question, as it's the closest thing I have to a "favorite". I read it for the first time when I was in the fifth grade, and I remember thinking that I had never read something so beautiful before. Each time I read it, I'm in awe.
Northanger Abbey is my favorite Jane Austen novel. Not only does it have my favorite love interests in the form Henry Tilney, it also has one of my favorite heroines and my favorite main pairing in an Austen novel. Plus, it's just an incredibly amusing read— I grin all the way through it, and I'm convinced that it had what is perhaps the best opening chapter I have ever read.
Finally, I also really love Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde. It satisfies my love for dragons (particularly those in human form), inhuman characters who don't act like they're just humans with special powers, and an excellent subtle romance. If you think that I don't ship Selendrile/Alys hard, then you are wrong, because I really, really do.
► Yesterday, I had a mildly panicky moment. I... thought that Yuletide fics were due at 18:00 (in my time zone) today. Then I checked out the countdown timer they provided on the post, and I am so glad I did, because I was very, very wrong— they were actually due at 11:00 in the morning.
I'd already outlined and worked a little bit on my fic, so I wasn't completely screwed over, but I definitely ended up staying very late to finish writing it. I'm... not completely happy with it, since the direction it went in meant that I couldn't write about quite a few things I'd meant to cover. Still, it's finished now. Maybe I'll write a few treats now, if I can find the motivation / don't get completely distracted by Dragon's Age. Or maybe not. We'll see.