Post-Reveal Writing Post

[morbane]

(Happy new year!)

We couldn't talk about what we were writing for over 2 months this time - so let's talk about it now. If you've made a post describing your writing process for Yuletide 2016, link it here - or just make a comment if you'd rather.

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[wotwotleigh]

This was my first Yuletide, and my first exchange writing outside of my usual fandom (Jeeves & Wooster), so the writing process was a little different from what I'm used to!

My assignment fic was "Something Normal" (Zootopia 2016, for Rampant_ID). The prompt was relationship-focused (Judy and Nick's family/friends try to set them up with members of their own species, they end up confessing their interest in each other).

I decided very early on that the story needed to be built around a case, but I had a couple false starts before I figured out how to weave the case and the family stuff together. At first, I wanted to have the whole thing take place at Judy's parents' place, with Nick there as well for added awkwardness, and give Judy some kind of eureka moment related to the case during dinner. But it just wasn't working out.

So eventually I scrapped that and hit on the idea of having the gruesome case stuff happening parallel to the homey/mundane family dinner stuff, and cutting back and forth between the two settings. I've never done a fic that way before, but I found the result a lot more interesting and satisfying than what I originally had in mind.

I also wrote a treat, "Jeeves and the Christmas Socks" (Jeeves and Wooster, for Jibrailis). I don't have much to say about the process there, since it's a fandom I'm very comfortable writing for. I think I started with the basic idea of "Bertie sees Jeeves wearing something un-Jeevesy and gives him crap about it," and it just kind of grew from there.