minutia_r

Hello there, yuletide writer! It’s the most wonderful time of the year again--the time when some poor sap has to write me a story for a canon that barely anyone else has ever heard of, let alone written fanfic for. And this year, you’re the poor sap!

Seriously though, if I were you I wouldn’t worry if you have a completely different idea for a story than the optional details below, or if you don’t happen to be the world’s greatest writer, or if you get hit by the Real Life bus and end up frantically banging on the keyboard two hours before the deadline--if by Christmas I have a story in one of these fandoms, I can pretty much guarantee I’ll be thrilled. It’s not like I’m going to be able to compare it unfavorably to the dozens of other stories in these fandoms, right?

( I was born a ramblin' man )

Thank you, happy writing, and I hope you get something you love for yuletide too!

I know it’s okay to be fannish about YA books, and middle-grades books … picture books are cool, too, right? Right.

Anyway, The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman and David Roberts. I can’t remember the last time I was so utterly charmed by a book. The basic plot is that a mean teacher confiscates a kid’s birthday present for his mother, and he and his classmates team up to get it back. The execution is . . . it’s like Charles Addams and Roald Dahl got together to write Ocean’s Eleven for preschoolers.

I kind of ship Einstein/Hollywood? In a third-graders-in-love way, not a sexy way.

Apparently a sequel has recently come out, I should try to get my hands on that.