Don't forget, my holiday love meme thread is here. Such wonderful things have been said already that I am going to print them out and paste them around my office.

Title: Family Morning
Author: escritoireazul
Written for: catalinay, who requested Fast and the Furious, family
Rating: 13+
Word Count: 600+
Author's Note: This is a transformative work of fiction set after the movie Fast and the Furious and the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is a companion piece to "wolf woman wild", "Thirty-One Days of the Wolf", "Wolf Moon On the Rise", and "Upon the Midnight Clear", but the only things you really need to know from them are that Letty got bitten and is now a werewolf and she, Dom, Faith, and Oz have a tenuous not so tenuous, pretty serious foursome going on.
Author's Note, the Second: I am still taking requests: On LJ and on DW.

( Family Morning )

FIRST NEW FANDOM OF THE DECEMBER WRITING! \O/

Title: Season of the Bitch
Author: escritoireazul
Written for: aphrodite_mine, who requested Hansel and Gretel, sweet.
Rating: 13+
Word Count: 700+
Author's Note: Gretel does roller derby, dudes. I do not do roller derby (at least not yet), but tried to do my research. Probably I didn't get it exactly right. Sorry.
Summary: Some days it's like being lost in the woods or shoved into an oven by a witch.

( Season of the Bitch )

Doing the December Drabbles is the best idea I had this month. I love them so. (Though I need to stretch a little; while I've written new character pov, I haven't tried any new fandoms. Yet.)

I am still taking requests: On LJ and on DW.

Yuletide is not yet progressing, but I have lots of time scheduled this weekend to work on it and hopefully finish a draft. Plus I have my one Yuletide beta job for the year to do. (It's an awesome story I love and I can't wait for you guys to read it.)

Title: Fallen Neverland
Author: escritoireazul
Written for: das_hydra who requested Lost Boys - punch.
Author's Note: This is a transformative work of fiction set before the movie The Lost Boys.
Rating: 13+
Word Count: 700+

Summary: There's something strange about them, something a little too wild in the shine of their eyes and the sharpness of their teeth.

( Fallen Neverland )

Title: Upon the Midnight Clear
Author: escritoireazul
Written for: nikitangel who requested, a long time ago, Faith as an injured character.
Author's Note: This is a transformative work of fiction set after the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the movie series Fast and the Furious. It is a companion piece to "wolf woman wild", "Thirty-One Days of the Wolf", and "Wolf Moon On the Rise", but the only things you really need to know from them are that Letty got bitten and is now a werewolf and she, Dom, Faith, and Oz have a tenuous foursome going on.
Author's Note #2: Written yesterday for day five of the December Drabbles, but my internet was down, so I couldn't post.
Rating: 13+
Word Count: 500+

Summary: Middle of the night phone calls never mean anything good.

( Upon the Midnight Clear )

Title: Wolf Moon on the Rise
Author: escritoireazul
Rating: 17+ for sex
Word Count: 1000+
Author's Note: This is a transformative work of fiction set after the tv series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and after the movie series the Fast and the Furious, specifically after the first few minutes of Fast & Furious. This is a companion piece to "wolf woman wild" and "Thirty-One Days of the Wolf", but the only things you really need to know from them are that Letty got bitten and is now a werewolf and she, Dom, Faith, and Oz have a tenuous foursome going on.

Summary: Some things are so goddamn hot Letty thinks they might kill her.

( Wolf Moon on the Rise )

Title: Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Author: escritoireazul
Written for: catalinay who requested Blue Crush - family
Author's Note: This is a transformative work of fiction set after the events of the movie Blue Crush. It's a companion piece to "Hold Your Breath (Breathe Out Now)" and "Charge the Waves (In the Sea of Love)", but you don't have to read them to understand this. Remember, you can request ficlets for the December Drabbles on LJ and on DW.
Rating: 13+
Word Count: 500+

( Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow )

Many people have been talking about drabbles lately, and kaalee's call for drabble links made me think about how I view drabbles, especially when I couldn't think of any specific examples off the top of my head.

Now don't get me wrong. I'm a member of a few different drabble communities, and I've written three or four myself (as long as you count the one that was the prequel to the remusremix ficathon), and there are times when I really like the idea of a drabble. (I'm defining a drabble the same way tipgardner quoted gblvr: a self-contained vignette of exactly 100 words, no more, no less. However, this also pertains to pieces of writing that are longer than 100 words, but aren't full length stories.) There are two or three writers who consistently churn out drabbles that catch my eye and that I've enjoyed reading, and any number of one or two shot drabbles that made me glad to be a reader.

However, none of them stuck with me, obviously, and that is why I also hate drabbling. Beyond the enjoyment from the actual reading itself, my favorite part of being a reader is the ability to recall my favorite stories, to share with others, to discuss and debate and enjoy together. I like to remember what I've read, and for the most part, I do. But when it comes to drabbles, no matter how much I enjoyed it at the time, I just can't pull it up later, because it's so fast and so small.

It's hard to write a good drabble; it takes time and effort, because, to me at least, it's much harder to write something clear, interesting, and concise, and 100 words is a very tiny amount of space to tell even a shadow of a story. But that's what makes it fun, the word constraints, and the effort to pare the story down to the bones, with only threads of sinew to hold it all together.

It surprises me that I enjoy drabbles at all; first and foremost, I'm a plot writer, and I like a long, complicated plot to carry the entire story. Characterization is wonderful, the writing itself (word choice, imagery, vocabulary, etc.) is important, but the beginning and the end of why I read and write is the plot itself. It's hard to find true plot in a drabble, and even more difficult to find a good plot handled well in one.