baby's first yuletide

I wrote one treat this year, The Sword and the Shield in The Raven Cycle. I got some nice feedback, met some cool people, and wrote an underrepresented pairing with one of my favorite kinks. Will probably sign up for real next year.

Since I love hearing people talk about their writing process, I figured I'd put down a few notes on how this thing came together. I'll spare you a wall of uncut text posted directly to the Yuletide comm, though.

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Overall, it was a lot of really intense, stressful fun, and I'm already plotting my requests for next year.