AinA - the night before.

[keiliss]

This AinA fic --- I felt bad about giving a gift I was dissatisfied with and have gone back and tried to beat it into submission. I need more chocolate. Settling for coffee. There is something very normal (if you're me) about wrestling with a swap fic the night before the reveal.

I'm pretty sure it's not what she had in mind, so I hope she won't be too disappointed. She's a lovely writer and would have done something wonderful with her own request.

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[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

She's a lovely writer and would have done something wonderful with her own request.

Oh, bah humbug! And here I was hoping you were writing for me! I guess you are not. I just fooled around with mine a little. Don't know if I made it better or worse. Tiny changes really.

Good luck and try to relax, (says the lady who never can!).

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Thank you :) I've made so many changes I'll have to send it back to Red for a look. And if this was for you, I would be a gibbering wreck by now and thinking of leaving the fandom... I would also be struggling with the other pairing on the list, not the one I chose, lol.

(btw, I saw your Erendis draft before it vanished, and I really liked it)

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I am sure yours will be lovely. You have no idea how easy I am to please! I am a pushover. I love to read fanfiction.

(btw, I saw your Erendis draft before it vanished, and I really liked it)

Thank you! I hope I can do a nice job with it.

[minuial_nuwing]

**hugs you tight**

Even if you don't feel it is one of your best, I can't believe anyone would be less than thrilled to get a swap fic from you, darling. Eat something decadent, relax, and look forward to your own gift story!

** loves**

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Had chocolate cake after dinner. It inspired me. I'm sorry I haven't answered your email yet, I've been sitting in a corner rocking. Tonight I realised I had to get up and do something about it, lol.

Thank you, dearest *loves*

[alexcat.livejournal.com]

Your work is always delightful! :)

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

That's such a lovely thing to say, thank you so much, Alex. It means a lot.

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

There is something very normal (if you're me) about wrestling with a swap fic the night before the reveal.

*raises hand* I'll probably be up until ass o'clock tonight picking my own fic over, because I am never satisfied, especially not when it's a gift for someone else.

I have complete confidence that yours will be lovely, regardless. I've never read anything of yours that wasn't. ♥

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I hope you're not still up! I've finally quit. Went through it twice, once was like a full beta (I pretended someone else had written it) and a second time to find all the bits I missed (like there was suddenly light in the room even though no one had lit a lamp *cringe* )

Yours will be lovely. Not only will it be lovely, but this time I will comment instead of telling you months later. Just so you know, I have been looking at your kitty pictures and reading your posts and not able to put words together into a comment because I have been in the corner rocking and feeling sorry for myself. I'll fix that tomorrow *g*.

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

I was up kinda late, but I finally realised poking it was not doing any good. >_> It's blasted short, but it's one of those things where there's a much longer story I wanted to tell, and cutting it down enough to make it a workable length required cutting it WAY down. Also, my writing is insanely sparse which always makes things even shorter. Oi. But if I try to make it not-sparse then it ends up sounding flowery and forced. -_-

Hee! I go through phases like that, too, where I read and read but can never manage to put comments together. It's okay. :D

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Mine's under 4000 words, which is fine if that's what the story is (and it really is all I can say about this without writing a novel) but I usually end up around 10K, so it feels strange. Must say I feel a bit better about it this morning after more or less gutting it last night. Soon see what you wrote :)

(I can't remember what I requested, so this is going to all be a huge surprise, LOL)

[idleleaves.livejournal.com]

Glad you feel better about it! ♥ (Mine barely skimmed over the minimum word count.)

LOL... um. I have no idea what I requested, either.

[hhimring]

I'm sorry this has given you so much pain, but I hope you can feel happier about it now.

Surely, if you request someone else to write a story for you, you expect to be surprised, at least a little? If you just want to get what you have in mind, you might as well write the story yourself, it seems to me. In fact, unless you have an unusual number of telepaths among your acquaintance, you probably should.

I'm sure it is a great story. I can't wait to have a look at it! Not much longer now.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I think she's have liked a bit more romance - they did finally kiss in the end but it was starting to look like it might be pg, lol. I feel better about it after pulling it apart one last time. It no longer makes me cringe at least. It's a gift so this was worrying me.

And I hear you about maybe if people know what they want they should write it themselves. I have seen some very detailed requests at times and wondered if there was any way the requester could be happy with what someone else did with it.

*hugs*

[elfscribe5.livejournal.com]

Go on, beat it into submission. You can do it! And I'm sure it is a good story. I know the night before angst, wondering if your recipient will like it. I really bit my nails about my Codpiece story which was for Darth. I mean gah.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

There are a few people I would be totally intimidated to find I was writing for, and that's one of them *g*. Still, then you try harder and create something brilliant like Codpiece!

I gutted it. By the time I'd finished you' have sworn it had never been edited before. It's not the best swap fic I ever wrote but I no longer feel like I should apologise to the recipient. Just needed to stop feeling sorry for myself and try fix it (I was very tempted to ask if you'd take a look at it a week or so ago for several reasons, but I know how little time you have to spare)

Re your post: holding you all in my heart, my dear.

[zylven.livejournal.com]

You'll be fine! Don't be so hard on yourself honey. *hugs*\

*pets the muses while she is at it*

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I really thought I wouldn't be able to get this one to the point where I didn't mind posting it - this has been the roughest swap I've done. Thanks for the support, dear *hugs*. My muses seem to like you, so maybe you could come past when I start the JourneyFic challenge?

[zylven.livejournal.com]

I am around hon, even if you don't want to post here, I am just an e-mail away. :) I am halfway your fic and I do like it so far, very melancholic.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetheart *hugs you*

[melusine6619.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's wonderful, dear. Your stories always are.

*hugs*

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

You always manage to make me smile - thank you, Mel dear :)

*hugs*