Yuletide: "Written by Candlelight" and other recommendations Well, I am delighted to be able to admit that my yuletide story was
Written by Candlelight. (Yes, it was - well, I had candles lit in the sitting-room as I was writing it, anyway.)
Once again I drew a book fandom: Dodie Smith's
I Capture the Castle. (There is another fandom nested inside this story, which you
may notice: it was one of PW's other requests, and it happened to be one I was familiar with, which was pure joy.)
It was more difficult than I'd thought to capture Cassandra Mortmain's style of writing: it's very simple and understated. I did it more on textual structure than anything else - Cassandra has the habit of beginning each new section of her journal saying
where she is, and her journal also includes details about how she feels while she's writing down what happened in the past - she's always recording events in the past, never in the present: sometimes in the immediate past, but quite often in the fairly distant past.
I chose these stories to rec
before the database went live: most of them were picked by the Random Story Fairy, bless her.
( Books )( TV )( Commercials )( Comic book )There are more recs, but this will do for the moment. Enjoy.