Roundup: Once Upon a Fic Exchange
21 May 2021 07:55 pmOnce Upon a Fic Exchange is for fairy-tale retellings, where "fairy tales" encompasses folk tales, legends, myths, and so on. Text of the requested story has to be legally available online.
I absolutely love this idea and I want to write a story for practically every tale nominated. Here is a list of all the nominated tales:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTlmc__r-Qa2iHmGDzVGLFetJ7Ta0HMWRfAxiA6CWL-2wIeg0WC17OHrcWKgGH6lI3r_0M0ZacsGCI-/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true
38 works were posted.
I had fun writing stories based on the sources, but I wonder if I might have made them too different from the original tales to be pleasing to the recipients.
I was overextended on exchanges so I managed to finish one assignment and one pinch hit but I still have a long way to go before I write one for every nommed tale.
( What I wrote: )
I received two fics that I really liked (Selkies! More Cupid & Psyche!), and one of them came with a bonus podfic!
( What I received: )
I absolutely love this idea and I want to write a story for practically every tale nominated. Here is a list of all the nominated tales:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTlmc__r-Qa2iHmGDzVGLFetJ7Ta0HMWRfAxiA6CWL-2wIeg0WC17OHrcWKgGH6lI3r_0M0ZacsGCI-/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true
38 works were posted.
I had fun writing stories based on the sources, but I wonder if I might have made them too different from the original tales to be pleasing to the recipients.
I was overextended on exchanges so I managed to finish one assignment and one pinch hit but I still have a long way to go before I write one for every nommed tale.
( What I wrote: )
I received two fics that I really liked (Selkies! More Cupid & Psyche!), and one of them came with a bonus podfic!
( What I received: )