Dear NFE Writer (2019 edition)
Jul. 5th, 2019 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marmota_bTo Anonymous Writer, Marmota, Greetings,
Thank you very much for taking on the task of supplying a story to fit my tastes. Once upon a time, I agreed to do that for my sister's birthday and it grew into what was probably my first fanfiction, of book proportions, and took several years to finish; agreeing to do such a thing in such a short time frame means a lot.
I always have a craving for more stories about the smaller players in the Narnian world; you can see my previous request letters, and the wonderful stories I've received both as regular & Madness entries, to get a pretty good grip on that side of my tastes!
This year, I'm mixing it up with an additional craving for a story about the friendship between Aravis & Lucy. I welcome other characters into the mix, too; family welcome, older friends welcome, minor characters welcome, original characters welcome, exploration of various cultures welcome; romance (except for minor Aravis/Cor, I guess) should preferably stay well outside the budoir door for this one, though (or alternately inside it, if it turns out to be an outdoorsy kind of story - which, with those two, it well may).
Or maybe a story in which a) someone else travels to Narnia; b) someone from Narnia travels to our world; or c) a crossover. I won't list my fandoms; there are many things I don't write but am familiar with, and besides, I think I wouldn't even mind one with a fandom I'm not familiar with, because that's actually how I discovered some of my fandoms!
If you somehow manage to combine it all, that would of course be awesome; but it will be wonderful even if you don't. :-)
All in all, whatever you do, I enjoy stories of friends and family, stories of faith (you don't have to venture there if it makes you nervous, and I do rather hate stories that run too far with the "allegory" of Narnia and lose sight of Narnia itself in the process) and hope (the latter I think I perceive much the same way Václav Havel did); stories that end on an uplifting note.
Written in South Moravia, on the fifth day of the month of Greenroof, in the year 2019.
Thank you very much for taking on the task of supplying a story to fit my tastes. Once upon a time, I agreed to do that for my sister's birthday and it grew into what was probably my first fanfiction, of book proportions, and took several years to finish; agreeing to do such a thing in such a short time frame means a lot.
I always have a craving for more stories about the smaller players in the Narnian world; you can see my previous request letters, and the wonderful stories I've received both as regular & Madness entries, to get a pretty good grip on that side of my tastes!
This year, I'm mixing it up with an additional craving for a story about the friendship between Aravis & Lucy. I welcome other characters into the mix, too; family welcome, older friends welcome, minor characters welcome, original characters welcome, exploration of various cultures welcome; romance (except for minor Aravis/Cor, I guess) should preferably stay well outside the budoir door for this one, though (or alternately inside it, if it turns out to be an outdoorsy kind of story - which, with those two, it well may).
Or maybe a story in which a) someone else travels to Narnia; b) someone from Narnia travels to our world; or c) a crossover. I won't list my fandoms; there are many things I don't write but am familiar with, and besides, I think I wouldn't even mind one with a fandom I'm not familiar with, because that's actually how I discovered some of my fandoms!
If you somehow manage to combine it all, that would of course be awesome; but it will be wonderful even if you don't. :-)
All in all, whatever you do, I enjoy stories of friends and family, stories of faith (you don't have to venture there if it makes you nervous, and I do rather hate stories that run too far with the "allegory" of Narnia and lose sight of Narnia itself in the process) and hope (the latter I think I perceive much the same way Václav Havel did); stories that end on an uplifting note.
Written in South Moravia, on the fifth day of the month of Greenroof, in the year 2019.