Anticipation... anticipay-ay-tion...

[dragonbat2006]

There is a Yuletide gift sitting in my inbox, waiting for the archive to open (hopefully, in less than an hour). I see it there. Mocking me. Telling me "I was written for you, but you can't open me, yet."

Wow. Okay, I think I can relate now to what my Christian friends go through seeing packages with their names on them under the tree... to be opened in the morning.

Meanwhile, I wait. And wonder if my recipients* are also waiting. And anticipating.

Hoping they like what I sent!










*I did a pinch-hit, as well as my initial assignment.

Comments

[biting_moopie]

Of course they'll like what you sent! How could they not? Hope you got an A+ fic and the anticipation wasn't too dreadful :)

[dragonbat2006]

I did get an A+ fic! And a couple of short notes from my recipients saying they liked and would comment more later. I was actually less worried about the pinch-hit. That one was:

• for a fandom I'm currently active in


• for someone who has liked my earlier work


• with a prompt that immediately started generating ideas on how to fill it

So, that one wasn't a real worry, so much as a 'I think she'll like this. I hope I'm right'.

But the original assignment was for a series of books I loved as a kid but haven't really written much fic for. (One fic. For a different exchange. About five years ago.) I didn't really know what I was going to write until I started rereading the canon. Somewhere around Book III (of a quintet), things started to crystallize, but it took a bit of time to get there.