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hlh_shortcuts has concluded for the year, and everyone's stories are live and no longer anonymous. This is my third time participating, and it was, as has been the case for me the past couple of years, a ton of fun. It's always exciting to see what people request, and what people come up with to write.( Read more... )

Had an excellent time with this event this year. As always, looking forward to the next one. ❤️

argentum_ls and I wrapped up another one of our Highlander: The Agent stories last night! This is the fifth in the series, which puts us at the halfway mark for what we've got planned. We've been posting these stories for almost a year now, and working on them for almost two, which is wild to think about.

Come to Light (31757 words) by argentum_ls, Teratornis
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: Highlander: The Series
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Matthew McCormick & Original Character(s)
Characters: Matthew McCormick, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Case Fic, Implied/Referenced Character Death, TV Logic, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, secrecy
Series: Part 10 of Highlander: The Agent
Summary: A killer Matthew failed to stop decades ago resurfaces, and his secrecy regarding the depths of his connection to the investigation threatens his partnership with Talbot.

As usual, some stuff about the process of this story:( Read more... )

Well, I'm always a sucker for a good meme, and this one asks some fun questions. Grabbed from rhi.

1. Under what rating do you write most?
Definitely Gen, at 71.

2. What are your top 3 fandoms?
Highlander (41), Original Work (25), Guild Wars 2 (9).

3. What character do you write about the most?
Single character is Methos (28), but Original Characters has the highest listed count (32). Obviously that's multiple original characters, though, so don't know if I should count that or not.

4. What are the top 3 pairings you've written?
I only have one single romantic pairing that I've written more than once, Ladyhawke's Isabeau d'Anjou/Etienne Navarre, with 3 stories. I only have ten fics total with romantic ships at all, and the rest are a scattering of single stories.

If we include friendships as well, though, it's Methos & Richie Ryan (8), Duncan MacLeod & Methos (4), and. . . several others at a 3 count, but we'll go with Matthew McCormick & Original Characters (3).

5. What are the top 3 additional tags?
Episode Related (11), Post-Canon (10), and Superheroes (9).

Saw this on annavere's page and thought it looked like fun, so here is a writer meme. I may have gotten a little verbose with this.

What else is new.

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From this week's thefridayfive. These looked like fun questions, this time.

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I wanted to write this before but I was out of town during author reveals. Home now, though, and still highly entertained by this particular exchange experience.

Bite-Sized is only in its second year. It's an exchange for anything that takes fewer than eight hours to complete, so movies, miniseries, stand-alone books, short games. And, most notably in this case, songs.

See, I nominated a couple of songs for the fandom pool for this exchange. Specifically, I nominated a song called Tale of the Shadow, an original shanty by the artist Sail North. It was then one of my requests for the exchange, and I wasn't the only one requesting it, which was pretty cool.

When assignments went out, I got assigned to the other person requesting Tale of the Shadow. That was pretty exciting, I had some ideas, I got it written and posted fairly thoroughly ahead of the deadline.

I was also excited when my own gift appeared, and went to check on which of my requested fandoms it was for.

Tale of the Shadow.

That made me laugh, since it was also what I had written (and yes, it turned out the other Tale of the Shadow requester and I had indeed written for each other).

However, then I got a second gift. This was also very exciting. I haven't been participating in exchanges all that long, and this was the first treat I had ever gotten. All eager to learn some details, I went to check the fandom.

Tale of the Shadow.

I was incredulous but delighted. What a fun thing to happen.

Then I got a third gift, and might have been holding my breath when I went to look at the fandom.

Tale of the Shadow.

By this point, between what I'd written and the gifts I'd received, we'd tripled the number of fics for this song on ao3. There had been two, prior to this exchange.

(To my excitement and delight, I stunningly received a fourth gift, but it broke the streak, and was instead written for the book A Sorceress Comes to Call.)

Anyway, it was a hilarious and wonderful exchange experience, and I had a lot of fun with it this year. The gifts I received were all really excellent: ( Read more... )

In addition to my own official assignment for Tale of the Shadow, I also ended up writing one treat for this exchange this year, for the movie Ladyhawke. ( Read more... )

I've really enjoyed this exchange both years I've participated in it. Will definitely be keeping an eye out for it next year as well.

I am procrastinating on editing something (a perpetual state of existence; the writing is excellent, the editing trips me up sometimes), and some time back when I mentioned some piece of music or another, argentum_ls suggested I list some of the stuff I listened to while working on our Highlander: The Agent project.

So. Why the hell not. Except I'm expanding the scope to music I commonly return to for just about any writing, listed in no particular order:
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So for about the last year, argentum_ls and I have been working on a collaborative series featuring Highlander character Matthew McCormick. We got to chatting one day a while back about the supposed spin-off series that character might have featured in, and what that might have looked like. I ended up writing a scene that got stuck in my head, and. . .

Well, now we're like a dozen stories deep and that first scene I wrote is buried somewhere in story six or some craziness like that. That sixth story was originally going to be the first one, I think, but we didn't even know we were going to do a series at that point, much less such an extensive one. We're both very much the sort of people who start writing something just to see what happens and roll with it from there, chasing the inspiration. The inspiration just. . . went a lot further than initially anticipated.

So I wrote that story, and then I wrote another story, and then we just sort of kept going, until it became apparent those two stories - and some of the stories Argentum had started hammering out as well - weren't destined to be the first in the series.

At that point I started Close to Home.( Read more... )

Well it's been a couple of days (or a week, for yuletide), but both HLH Shortcuts and Yuletide have de-anonymized, so I can talk a bit about what all I wrote now.

I had an interesting time for my pieces for both these exchanges, both did a couple things that were a little outside my usual comfort zone, but I had a really good time.

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This year I participated in Highlander Holiday Shortcuts, for the second year running, and in Yuletide, for my first year. I've been dipping my toes into the waters of several fic events, over the last year, and I was pretty excited to participate in these.

That being said, when I sign up for exchanges I frequently sort of forget that I'm going to be receiving a gift, as well as writing one. I mostly just really enjoy the writing, and then I remember I get a gift too, and it's such an exciting treat.

And holy shit, my gifts for these two exchanges have blown me away.

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Gradually working my way through reading the other stories in these exchange collections (or at least the ones for fandoms I'm into, for yuletide, because wow there's so many), and there's some really excellent stuff. I'm really enjoying the chance to read so many great stories.