Canadian shacks!
Jan. 8th, 2012 08:27 pmOK, I knew I was old because my kid, who was in utero when I started reading slash, turned thirteen today. But it's been ten years since ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cesperanza accidentally launched 101 Ways To End Up In A Shack In Canada.
I was still a beginner back then, and I can't even tell you how much the shack challenge influenced me; the 500-word length made it possible to explore new pairings, and I learned to spot the juicy center of a story and zero right in on it. It made such an impression on me that when I was writing Breaking and Entering, and I wanted to send Arthur and Eames somewhere that represented ultimate safety and comfort, I put them in a shack in Canada completely by accident.
So now we're doing it again! The details on the anniversary celebration are here, but the short version is that everyone's invited to spend 500 or so words getting pairings old and new into shacks in Canada. (Rumor has it there are actual cities in Canada, but as I've never been there, I prefer to think of it as entirely full of shacks.)
Works in this year's challenge are collected on the Canadian Shack 2011 collection on AO3. I wrote And One Way To End Up In a High-Rise On Lake Shore Drive, a little Fraser/Kowalski story, for old time's sake.
cesperanza accidentally launched 101 Ways To End Up In A Shack In Canada.I was still a beginner back then, and I can't even tell you how much the shack challenge influenced me; the 500-word length made it possible to explore new pairings, and I learned to spot the juicy center of a story and zero right in on it. It made such an impression on me that when I was writing Breaking and Entering, and I wanted to send Arthur and Eames somewhere that represented ultimate safety and comfort, I put them in a shack in Canada completely by accident.
So now we're doing it again! The details on the anniversary celebration are here, but the short version is that everyone's invited to spend 500 or so words getting pairings old and new into shacks in Canada. (Rumor has it there are actual cities in Canada, but as I've never been there, I prefer to think of it as entirely full of shacks.)
Works in this year's challenge are collected on the Canadian Shack 2011 collection on AO3. I wrote And One Way To End Up In a High-Rise On Lake Shore Drive, a little Fraser/Kowalski story, for old time's sake.