Crossworks 2023 (2 of 2): As Lucky Can Be

Sep. 12th, 2023 07:03 pm
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I noted in the prior post that both the story I wrote and the gifts I received involved Mary Poppins, but it was more interesting than that: in fact, [profile] sinkauli and I were each other's recipients.

In this case, my own story is a bit of an outlier. I chose to blend the Poppins canon with Murder She Wrote - but rather than focusing on Jessica Fletcher, I decided to spotlight her identical cousin Emma MacGill (also played by Angela Lansbury), and to connect the tale with Mary Poppins Returns by way of Lansbury's Emma's appearance therein. Which leads us to:

As Lucky Can Be
Fandoms: Murder She Wrote, Mary Poppins
Rating: G
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: ~2900
Characters: Emma MacGill, Jessica Fletcher, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a chimney sweep, a lamplighter, Frankie Fletcher
Additional Tags: theater, movies

Some career decisions are more life-changing than others....

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Fic: Odds and ends

May. 8th, 2023 04:11 pm
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While prowling through my files this afternoon, I ran across a couple of small things from an old LiveJournal discussion of crackfic that I realized I'd never thought to upload on AO3. This has now been remedied....

Getting Things Started
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Muppets
Rating: G
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: 160
Characters: Buffy Summers, Dawn Summers, Kermit, Scooter
Additional Tags: crack, crossover, commentfic

"Tell me again" said the frog, "why we got such a good deal buying this theater."

Gargoyles, She Wrote
Fandoms: Gargoyles, Murder She Wrote
Rating: G
Category: gen
Warnings: none
Words: 300
Characters: Owen Burnett, Jessica Fletcher
Additional Tags: crack, crossover, commentfic, murder, triple drabble

It was almost refreshing when the hostess of the present banquet ran screaming into the dining room and straight into Owen's arms, gasping out an urgent cry for help between inarticulate wails.
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And Another Minor Moment of Notoriety

May. 16th, 2020 05:08 pm
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Another recent discovery, in the course of some random Google-fu:

The Carson Drew Murder Case, one of my two "classic modern" Nancy Drew stories, was featured in a recap/review segment -- something over a year ago now, but hey -- of a podcast series called Get A Clue, Nancy Drew.  (The link is to the specific episode, and the segment on the story starts just at 21 minutes in.)

It looks as if that podcast series finished its brief and concluded just a few episodes later -- their main focus was on recap/reviews of the classic yellow-spine Nancy Drew novels, with occasional side trips -- but it's always fun to come across actual physical evidence that people are enjoying one's work.
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Fic: Crossovering 2017 - The Carson Drew Murder Case (Nancy Drew/Murder, She Wrote)

Oct. 21st, 2017 02:52 pm
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One more post to bring things up to date: what I wrote for this year's Crossovering was sleuthing nostalgia squared -- Jessica Fletcher looking into the arrest of one Carson Drew for a murder he insists he didn't commit.

The Carson Drew Murder Case
Fandom: Murder She Wrote, Nancy Drew - Carolyn Keene
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: ~7000
Relationships: Nancy Drew & Carson Drew
Characters: Jessica Fletcher, Carson Drew, Nancy Drew, Original Female Character, "Janet Drake", "Lucy Drake", Carolyn Keene
Additional Tags: Mystery

When Carson Drew is arrested for murder, his sister Eloise knows exactly who to call.

This turned out to be a trickier assignment than I had expected; I actually finished and posted what I thought was the final text, then reread the assignment, reread the manuscript, and realized that I'd committed a serious case of cliché/stereotyping.  So I did a complete second pass through the manuscript at pretty much the last possible moment, expanding it to about twice its previous length in the process, and came out the other end with what I think is a much better and more nuanced resolution.  (Fortunately, the recipient and other readers seem to agree.)

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Now it's on to Holmestice, and Yuletide, and so forth and so on....

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Advent Project #13: A Half-Baked Plot

Dec. 14th, 2005 11:52 am
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Sometimes the classic gimmicks are the best....

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A Half-Baked Plot
Fandom: Murder, She Wrote
Rating: G
Classification: Gen/Mystery
Suggested By: graycardinal
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( Some people just can't go anywhere without stumbling over corpses.... )
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