amelia_petkova

The photo on today's Bing homepage is of Wales and it makes you want to re-read the entire series. (And travel to Wales again, but I feel like that every day.)

Ok, I did it. I joined help_haiti and posted a fan fiction offering. Offering reposted here for your convenience:

User Name: amelia_petkova
Email address: amelia[dot]petkova[at]gmail[dot]com
You can see things I've created at: amelia_petkova Click on the tag "fan fiction" on the right-hand side.
I am offering: A fan fic of at least 1,000 words in any of the following fandoms:

Fandoms (if appropriate):
Books:
--The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander
--The Keeper Chronicles by Tanya Huff
--The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
--The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
--The Tower at Stony Wood by Patricia A. McKillip
--Possession by A.S. Byatt
--The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
--Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
--Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
Music:
--The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists
Television:
--The Storyteller (Jim Henson series)

Additional Info (optional): Most of my writing tends to be genfic or humor, though I do enjoy writing in other genres (ex. AU or crossover). I don’t write lemons or noncom. As far as character relationships, I usually stick to what’s established in the canon, though I'm willing to be flexible.

Starting Bid: $5

ETA: You can find the bidding guidelines on the community's entries. I believe the auction ends on January 20.

Taken from starstruckduck and lotesseflower. Post the first sentence from each month.

January
As it's another month, it's time for another poem.

February
Love Is Not All

March
Title: Abstinence
(It was an Indiana Jones drabble.)

April
I wrote this sometime last school year, when I happened to see the movie on TV.

May
You know that novel-length plotbunny I got slammed with about a month ago?

June
My second super-long entry of quotes, this time from Possession by A.S. Byatt, which is a novel that more people need to read.

July
I've just read the post in deliasherman's LJ, that ellen_kushner mentioned in hers.

August
I've been working on a story that involves Scandinavian folklore, so I end up reading lots of fairy tales.
(And the story still is not finished. *rolls eyes*)

September
Yet again, I'm asking for opinions.

October
Originally written for a discussion of the TDiR movie adaptation in ashkitty's LJ.
(It ended up turning into an entire drabble series. Good times.)

November
Guess who gets to spend next semester writing about folklore, mythology, and fairy tales for Anthropology?

December
On LJ's new policy about adult content: this can't possibly end well.

Originally written for a discussion of the TDiR movie adaptation in ashkitty's LJ.

Title: Old One Auditions
Fandom: The Dark is Rising

( Satire is my friend )

October 5, 2007: The Dark Is Rising Boycott Day

( for other TDiR addicts, since I know most people on my f-list are probably tired of my ranting )

First of all, Wales was great. Details will be posted after I´m caught up with my paper journal.

There´s been more casting done for The Dark is Rising . Knee-jerk reaction: They cast Christopher Eccleston as the Black Rider ?!?! Having watched a season of Doctor Who , I can´t at all imagine him as the long red-haired agent of the Dark. I might not be able to see this movie.

(No opinions yet on Merriman and Will, as I haven´t seen any of their movies.)

Naturally, I thought of this moments after clicking the "post entry" button about the musicals.

One of my greatest fears is that I will never be the kind of writer that I want to be. More than making a living by writing, I worry more about making the readers feel. There are writers like Peter S. Beagle (e.x. The Last Unicorn ) and Susan Cooper (e.x. Silver on the Tree ) and The Neverending Story and Lloyd Alexander (e.x. The Prydain Chronicles ) whose stories have me crying before the end because they are that wonderful. Poets too, like Anna Akhmatova. I'm happy and frustrated at the same time when reading these books--happy because I love them so much, and angry because I still don't believe that I will be able to write that spectacularly.

I'm so caught up in this at the moment that I'm not able to think clearly and write all that I want to on this topic. But it had to be said now.

(I shall have to find the audiobook of The Last Unicorn .)

During Thanksgiving vacation I listened to A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle as an audio book. I'd forgotten how much I loved her writing. So much of the book is about fighting against the Dark and hopelessness. About halfway through, I was reminded of similar elements in The Dark is Rising Sequence . The dark rider would have fit in perfectly on Camazotz. It's been several weeks since I thought of this connection, so I can't remember all that I was going to say.

What do you think?

Also, anybody interested in writing a crossover? (holds up a plot bunny dressed like Mrs. Whatsit)

Am suddenly very tempted to write a Parody Theatre for either The Prydain Chronicles or The Dark is Rising Sequence. Either assist in the madness or run far away, it's your choice.