Jukebox report
9 Jun 2018 21:17Once again, I participated in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
jukebox_fest and had lots of fun! My gift was The Sky by ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
Silex, 2.8k of science fiction in the spirit of the Golden Age, when everything was new and strange and wondrous and beautiful and the Universe was there for the exploring. Complete with philosophical conversation and a novel twist on an old trope! I love it.
My assignment was Snow Over Old Tracks for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shadowsapiens, 2.8k of tropey slash with huddling for warmth, enemies to lovers, and fantasy magic! It was a ball to write, my creative process was basically "hmm shadow likes these tropes, which one can I put into play next?" and thus there's huddling for warmth and injured people trying to conceal their wounds and bone-deep weariness and it seems that my writing really has leveled up this year since I'm getting compliments on my sentence-level construction and characterization decisions. Yay!
On the last day before the collection revealed, I wrote two treats for people on the treatless list compiled by a person on FFA. Alarms Will Ring for Eternity forpanny is 1k of a novel take on necromancy (it fit with the song!) combined with a hopefulness in the song and the prompt. And All is Wasted on the Land for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
psychomachia is 655 words of a merperson coming onto the land only for the apocalypse to happen. This one was really down under the wire, with only an hour or so until reveals to go.
I'm proud of all my crop of stories this year, and I got a fair amount of comments that praised my "style" (evocative phrasing, a sense of the world existing outside the narrative, creating fascinating worlds in few words) so I guess I've actually improved! It's nice to make progress in one's hobby. "Alarms Will Ring for Eternity" got its title from a lyric in the song it's based on; "And All is Wasted on the Land" almost likewise – there was a lyric that went "and all is wasted on the shore", which was perfect with just a bit of modding. "Snow Over Old Tracks" was an innovation and is probably the best title of the year, since it's got the whole cold/snow bit that makes the characters huddle for warmth, and the fact that the snow is covering the old tracks is handy at hinting that there's a change in relationship happening, and the past is being put aside!
The rest of the Jukebox collection can be read here.
jukebox_fest and had lots of fun! My gift was The Sky by My assignment was Snow Over Old Tracks for
shadowsapiens, 2.8k of tropey slash with huddling for warmth, enemies to lovers, and fantasy magic! It was a ball to write, my creative process was basically "hmm shadow likes these tropes, which one can I put into play next?" and thus there's huddling for warmth and injured people trying to conceal their wounds and bone-deep weariness and it seems that my writing really has leveled up this year since I'm getting compliments on my sentence-level construction and characterization decisions. Yay!On the last day before the collection revealed, I wrote two treats for people on the treatless list compiled by a person on FFA. Alarms Will Ring for Eternity for
panny is 1k of a novel take on necromancy (it fit with the song!) combined with a hopefulness in the song and the prompt. And All is Wasted on the Land for psychomachia is 655 words of a merperson coming onto the land only for the apocalypse to happen. This one was really down under the wire, with only an hour or so until reveals to go.I'm proud of all my crop of stories this year, and I got a fair amount of comments that praised my "style" (evocative phrasing, a sense of the world existing outside the narrative, creating fascinating worlds in few words) so I guess I've actually improved! It's nice to make progress in one's hobby. "Alarms Will Ring for Eternity" got its title from a lyric in the song it's based on; "And All is Wasted on the Land" almost likewise – there was a lyric that went "and all is wasted on the shore", which was perfect with just a bit of modding. "Snow Over Old Tracks" was an innovation and is probably the best title of the year, since it's got the whole cold/snow bit that makes the characters huddle for warmth, and the fact that the snow is covering the old tracks is handy at hinting that there's a change in relationship happening, and the past is being put aside!
The rest of the Jukebox collection can be read here.