Well, that's a surprise...
Feb. 26th, 2008 09:36 amThe winner of the .moon Winter Challenge was announced today, and somehow my HP story Birthday Fool (linking to the thread - it's an April Fool's story, so I'm waiting until then to post it at the usual places) actually won. O.o
I'm a bit in shock, because the story I entered is definitely my least favorite of all the challenge entries I've written for the seasonal contest. The only reason I really entered it is because I spent so much time working on it, I thought it would be a waste not to go ahead and submit it. I never actually believed it had a chance of winning, but I guess it helped that there were only four entries this time. Still think December's story should have won instead, though; it was adorable.
Speaking of fanfiction, I'm currently taking a bit of a break from my Kaleido Star multi-part. For the past couple of weeks, I've actually been working on my first Princess Tutu fic (working title: Searching for the Missing Past). It's been going fairly well so far, but I'm having some trouble with the last part of the story, so yesterday I went back to a story that I've had on hiatus for quite a while: Only Human. Yep, my oft-mentioned, oft-ignored Helios/Serenity/Perle Thorn Birds-inspired love triangle fic. ^_^
And this time, I'm really determined to finish it. I always said I wanted to write at least one really good Helios/Chibi-Usa romance, so that's what I'm going to try to do, since this will most likely be my last major SM work. (I'll still write the occasional story for![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sm_monthly, and there's still the possibility for the SM/WHR crossover I really want to write, so I'm not completely retiring from the SM fandom yet!) As I've mentioned before, I've decided to cut it down from the long multi-part I first invisioned it as to a long one-shot (possibly a short multi-part, depending on how things go) using some of the entries I wrote for sm_monthly(rewritten to better fit the story). I really think that'll make things a little easier to write, so wish me luck this time! *crosses fingers*
I'm a bit in shock, because the story I entered is definitely my least favorite of all the challenge entries I've written for the seasonal contest. The only reason I really entered it is because I spent so much time working on it, I thought it would be a waste not to go ahead and submit it. I never actually believed it had a chance of winning, but I guess it helped that there were only four entries this time. Still think December's story should have won instead, though; it was adorable.
Speaking of fanfiction, I'm currently taking a bit of a break from my Kaleido Star multi-part. For the past couple of weeks, I've actually been working on my first Princess Tutu fic (working title: Searching for the Missing Past). It's been going fairly well so far, but I'm having some trouble with the last part of the story, so yesterday I went back to a story that I've had on hiatus for quite a while: Only Human. Yep, my oft-mentioned, oft-ignored Helios/Serenity/Perle Thorn Birds-inspired love triangle fic. ^_^
And this time, I'm really determined to finish it. I always said I wanted to write at least one really good Helios/Chibi-Usa romance, so that's what I'm going to try to do, since this will most likely be my last major SM work. (I'll still write the occasional story for
sm_monthly, and there's still the possibility for the SM/WHR crossover I really want to write, so I'm not completely retiring from the SM fandom yet!) As I've mentioned before, I've decided to cut it down from the long multi-part I first invisioned it as to a long one-shot (possibly a short multi-part, depending on how things go) using some of the entries I wrote for sm_monthly(rewritten to better fit the story). I really think that'll make things a little easier to write, so wish me luck this time! *crosses fingers*