Hello, gloom! Your name looks so familiar that I think we’ve met before, about nine years ago. Did you perhaps read HP fic (and at least one of my stories) before starting to post your own? I’m almost sure about a memory of encouraging someone called luminousgloom to write.
I, too, find this exchange more pleasant than some others. I like the challenge of writing a story according to a particular prompt and the prompt-givers preferences, after I’ve got to choose among prompts. In fests where there’s the chance to make my own prompt or pick any in long lists (from several years), I feel too free. I’ve realised that the reason I still write fanfic instead of something totally new is that it’s wonderfully challenging not to contradict (the parts of) canon (I’ve decided to follow) or my previous stories in my single R/S universe.
I’m glad you decided to do this despite the bad timing – also because I got your prompts, which were the ones I placed as my number one choice among the five prompters I’d considered.
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I, too, find this exchange more pleasant than some others. I like the challenge of writing a story according to a particular prompt and the prompt-givers preferences, after I’ve got to choose among prompts. In fests where there’s the chance to make my own prompt or pick any in long lists (from several years), I feel too free. I’ve realised that the reason I still write fanfic instead of something totally new is that it’s wonderfully challenging not to contradict (the parts of) canon (I’ve decided to follow) or my previous stories in my single R/S universe.
I’m glad you decided to do this despite the bad timing – also because I got your prompts, which were the ones I placed as my number one choice among the five prompters I’d considered.