Dear Yuletide Writer
Oct. 20th, 2014 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wildestrangerThank you so much for writing for me! I look forward to reading whatever you decide to do - please know that my philosophy for Yuletide is to consider authorial prompts as suggestions rather than requirements, and if what I would like to read does not coincide with what you like to write, please feel free to ignore everything I say.
My general likes are for plot-driven fiction - not necessarily action, but certainly events and developments and things happening inside the characters' brains. Actually, things happening inside characters' brains is probably what I like best, but this need not be explicitly stated (if Dorothy Dunnett is the fandom we share, you should know that I love the fact that neither Francis nor Nicholas is ever obvious about his thought-processes, and trying to figure out what is going on there is one of my favourite things about the series). I also like banter, and people being clever, and learning new things through fiction. I enjoy erotic fic as well as gen.
Things I dislike: death, rape/non-con, historical anachronisms.
Fandom-specific prompts:
Francis Crawford is my One True Love, so anything to do with him is going to make me happy. That said, I am also interested in the relationships between women in the series, Philippa and Sybilla, Sybilla and Martha, Marthe and Philippa. This extends to cross-series encounters - I would love to read about Sybilla meeting her grandmother (or grandfather, even), or telling Philippa or Marthe about them. Or alternatively, a tiny Francis meeting a wizened yet commanding Gelis would be fantastic.
In the House of Niccolo, my main interest is in Gelis van Borselen. I would be happy to hear about what happens to her after the events of the book (even to the extent of meeting her grandchildren or great-grandchildren), or having discussions with Nicholas or Katelijne about anything. I am also fascinated by her relationship with Nicholas, so if you would like to write about that in any point in time, this would please me well. If Anselm Adorne or Katelijne Sersanders are your thing, I am interested in their political and cosmopolitan ties, and how that intervenes in their daily lives. One of the things I find interesting about the Niccolo series is what it tells us about the intercultural exchanges of late medieval Europe, and I would be very happy if you wanted to write about that.
In The Hour, I am primarily interested in the Freddie/Bel dynamic - anything you would like to write about that, especially before or after the series, would be great.
I hope you enjoy your writing, and I promise I will be grateful for whatever you decide to do.
My general likes are for plot-driven fiction - not necessarily action, but certainly events and developments and things happening inside the characters' brains. Actually, things happening inside characters' brains is probably what I like best, but this need not be explicitly stated (if Dorothy Dunnett is the fandom we share, you should know that I love the fact that neither Francis nor Nicholas is ever obvious about his thought-processes, and trying to figure out what is going on there is one of my favourite things about the series). I also like banter, and people being clever, and learning new things through fiction. I enjoy erotic fic as well as gen.
Things I dislike: death, rape/non-con, historical anachronisms.
Fandom-specific prompts:
Francis Crawford is my One True Love, so anything to do with him is going to make me happy. That said, I am also interested in the relationships between women in the series, Philippa and Sybilla, Sybilla and Martha, Marthe and Philippa. This extends to cross-series encounters - I would love to read about Sybilla meeting her grandmother (or grandfather, even), or telling Philippa or Marthe about them. Or alternatively, a tiny Francis meeting a wizened yet commanding Gelis would be fantastic.
In the House of Niccolo, my main interest is in Gelis van Borselen. I would be happy to hear about what happens to her after the events of the book (even to the extent of meeting her grandchildren or great-grandchildren), or having discussions with Nicholas or Katelijne about anything. I am also fascinated by her relationship with Nicholas, so if you would like to write about that in any point in time, this would please me well. If Anselm Adorne or Katelijne Sersanders are your thing, I am interested in their political and cosmopolitan ties, and how that intervenes in their daily lives. One of the things I find interesting about the Niccolo series is what it tells us about the intercultural exchanges of late medieval Europe, and I would be very happy if you wanted to write about that.
In The Hour, I am primarily interested in the Freddie/Bel dynamic - anything you would like to write about that, especially before or after the series, would be great.
I hope you enjoy your writing, and I promise I will be grateful for whatever you decide to do.
