Yuletide Reveal

[masterofmidgets]

Yuletide reveals are up! So now I can tell you that this year I wrote:

Title: Mastering thee Arte of Masonry for calamity_kitten
Fandom: Elenium/Tamuli Series (David Eddings)
Rating: T-ish for violence
Pairing: Berit/Khalad
Word Count: 9220
Summary: Every great Pandion knight has to fail at least once. Some do it more dramatically than others.
Beta: colourofsaying, who not only read the whole Elenium along with me (and shared in many many jokes about Bevier's tragically awful sex life), but put up with two weeks of me calling at 10pm because I couldn't figure out how to get two teenage boys to punch each other in the face.

I had so much fun writing this. It's been awhile since I've written something with an action plot - maybe not since I was doing Star Trek fic? - and I tried to go in really well-prepared. I had an outline and everything! Although I actually ended up cutting out several scenes for lack of time to get them written - in my original outline there was going to be a bandit attack in the middle, and possibly a big sword fight at the monastery. And a lot more shirtless carpentry. I do think it hangs together a lot tighter now then it would have if I'd added in all the extra material, though I'd like to go back in a few weeks and tweak the ending more. Still, I'm pretty happy with it overall, and I'm glad I got to take a deeper look at Berit, since he's an interesting (and adorable) character I hadn't thought about that much before.

Also, in the process of writing this I learned a lot about roofing practices in medieval England and Scotland.