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\o\ I finished an original short story! /o/

Ok, it's 7500 words, which is half again as long as it was supposed to be, and it needs a ton of revision before I can even think about a beta-reader, but still! VICTORY!

That means I get to go to ChessieCon this weekend, too. Sometimes self-bribery works.

(Hopefully the other near-finished one will get done, and then in December I take a month for Yuletide, and I can worry about revisions in January...)

Also dinner yesterday was quite pleasant, and we discussed the fact that my cousin's mom really wants her to read Anne of Green Gables, but my cousin will only read books with dragons in them, so therefore someone needs to write a version of Anne of Green Gables were Anne is actually a dragon. (This seems entirely workable, given what I remember of Anne of Green Gables. And it's public domain...)

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Excellent!

Has cousin read A Book Dragon by Donn Kushner?

Cousin is apparently reading at least ten books a week, so I doubt anyone but her can track. But she's not quite onto YA yet, so that looks like it might be a little bit old for her still.

Go you! \o/ Congratulations.

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I would not be surprised if Dragonanne of Green Gables actually exists, considering that we already have Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.

And congratulations!

I haven't been able to find any indication that it exists, but given the existence of the above, and young girls' love for dragons, I suspect that if someone wrote it they could get a publisher.

I would 100% read the version of Anne of Green Gables in which Anne is a dragon. A plucky orphan dragon who's come to help keep the Cuthbert's house warm in the winter!

Matthew encountered the stationmaster locking up the ticket office preparatory to going home for supper, and asked him if the five-thirty train would soon be along.

"The five-thirty train has been in and gone half an hour ago," answered that brisk official. "But there was a passenger dropped off for you—a young dragon. She's sitting out there on the shingles. I asked her to go into the ladies' waiting room, but she informed me gravely that she preferred to stay outside. 'There was more scope for imagination,' she said, but I rather think she meant there was more room for her wings. She's a case, I should say."

"I'm not expecting a dragon," said Matthew blankly. "It's a boy I've come for. He should be here. Mrs. Alexander Spencer was to bring him over from Nova Scotia for me."

The stationmaster whistled.

"Guess there's some mistake," he said. "Mrs. Spencer came off the train with that dragon and gave her into my charge. Said you and your sister were adopting her from an asylum and that you would be along for her presently. That's all I know about it—and I haven't got any boy orphans concealed hereabouts."

"I don't understand," said Matthew helplessly, wishing that Marilla was at hand to cope with the situation.

*_______*

"I'M NOT EXPECTING A DRAGON"

I changed maybe half-a-dozen words in that but IT WORKS

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS.

Was thinking an Anne of Green Gables/Pern fusion was the obvious solution to this problem. :D

I'm.... not sure I would be willing to subject Anne Shirley to Pern. ..or for that matter subject Pern to Anne. (I definitely don't want to subject my little cousin to Pern....)

There are no canons that are not improved by dragons :)

It's true!

Hooray for a draft! ^_^

/o/ \o\ \o/

Woot, Chessiecon! I wish I was on that side of the country. Apparently when Ursula Vernon and Seanan Maguire get together it's... a thing. :D

I once wrote an Anne of Green Gables/Mercedes Lackey fusion for Yuletide. I put it up under a sock, because I'd only read a carefully curated three pages or so of anything Valdemar (

tigerkat24 kindly picked out some non-triggery bits for me to get the tone and answered my questions about worldbuilding), but really, fusioning Anne with any sort of fantasy does tend to work surprisingly well. ^_^ I bet one actually could get it published, too.

(Not It. XD Some fandoms, I use up all my ability to write them on one short piece, and I definitely did that with Anne.)

It is, indeed, a Thing when Seanan McGuire and Ursula Vernon get together! Seanan on her own is also pretty spectacular, at least if you like stories about Seanan getting bitten by exotic reptiles and that time her mountain lion treed her next-door neighbor. I can't testify to Ursula on her own but Ursula with Kevin heckling is pretty amazing, as I think you already know. ^_^

Congrats on the short story!

Hurrah!

Go you! 7500 original words is definitely a great accomplishment, I think. Also, I would read the hell out of DragAnne of Green Gables. (Though it might have to be Dragonne or DragonAnne). Breathing fire, instead of flame-red hair. Accidentally singeing Diana's dress. Gangly and ungainly until her wings mature. Her temper could be quite a serious thing, if it was literally "fiery"

I think it would have to be just "Dragon of Green Gables" but really. That would work. "She was a small dragon, about eleven feet long, with scales that looked green in some lights and gray in others, and wing membranes that were most decidedly red...."

MAD CONGRATS

And BTW, I also would read that. Hard. XD

If I knew Anne of Green Gables better I would be tempted.

(latecomer to your journal, but) if Jo Walton can do Trollope only with dragons, I see no reason why not Dragon of Green Gables.

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