Revealing

[gwyn]

I wrote only one story this year, but hope to try for some NY's resolutions if I can get inspired. My story was for the fandom Life.

The Moon Cannot Be Stolen (4190 words) by gwyneth rhys
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Life
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Charlie Crews/Ted Earley
Characters: Ted Earley, Charlie Crews
Summary:

When Charlie found Ted.

At first it was a struggle to figure out what to write, since the request was for Ted and Charlie and I spent days wracking my brain trying to come up with something that wasn't just a rehash of the show or set in prison, but in the episode with the coyote, Ted mentions to the documentarians that he was in a really bad place when Charlie found him, and that was the perfect impetus. I kind of knew going in that setting it before the series, and not having Dani in it, would limit readership, but wow it was soul-crushing to realize just how much that limited it. But I'm really, really happy with the story, and the people who did comment seemed to think I really nailed their voices, and my recipient liked it, so that's all very good indeed.

Every year, I wonder this same thing: Why does everyone insist on making recs posts only before the reveals, and act like it's some kind of deadline? I don't get this. Why does knowing the name of the author make it...unreccable? I have so many more stories to read yet, and hope to do more recs posts, but it's weird to me that people act like they can only rec anonymously.

Comments

[alchemine]

I think the recs-before-reveals thing was born from the idea that anonymous stories would be recced only on their own merits, not because they had a popular writer's name attached to them or had been written by a friend of the reccer's. Of course there are a lot of other factors that go into recs, and someone could totally game the system if they wanted to!

P.S. Hi, just stopping by to say that I enjoyed being your writer this year. :)

[gwyn]

Ah, I guess that makes sense. I don't think like that, but I can see how others might see it that way.

I am so glad to know who wrote my excellent adventure! I hope you're happy with how well-received it was -- it was great to see how many people read it and left kudos/comments! That's definitely a first for me...I've always requested these teeeeeny fandoms before. ;-)

[fairestcat]

I certainly plan on making more recs post-reveal. I still have a ton of fic left to read!

I understand the appeal of anonymous recs, I certainly get a great joy every year from going into my recs sets and seeing which authors I already know and love I managed to rec anonymously. But that's far from the only reason I rec stuff, and I certainly don't consider it reason to STOP reccing once reveal has happened.

[gwyn]

Yeah, I think I can see the appeal even though it's not necessarily my bag -- I mean, you could be rec'ing and loving a story written by your nemesis! Or raving about something that's by some person whose writing you never liked! It's kind of fun not knowing in that respect. (This actually happened to me -- I raved about a story done by someone I can't stand. It gives you a new perspective and is kind of seasonally appropriate, you know? )

[sakana17]

I don't intend to only rec pre-reveal, but most of my recs come out early because that's when I'm excited about Yuletide and trying to read a lot. Then I go back to work and all my plans to keep reading Yuletide and keep reccing go to hell. But I'm going to try to be better this year! I've marked-for-later a bunch of stories already and I haven't even looked through some of the bigger fandoms.