Has this been done? Is it feasible?

[citrinesunset]

The other day, I was looking at fic for classic literature on AO3 ('cause this is something I, uh, do sometimes) and found myself wishing there was more.

So I started thinking, what if I held a fic fest devoted to classic literature?

Has this...been done before? Has anyone tried it already? And if not, is it feasible? I don't imagine it would be the most active fest, but would there be enough interest for it to be relatively successful? Because I mean, I'm all on board for this, but I'll admit that writing fic for literature can, at best, be awkward and difficult at times.

And I don't even know how I would begin to promote such a thing. I know the Sherlock Holmes stories have a fandom, so there might be some interest there, but otherwise I don't know. I wouldn't want to do it without knowing there was interest.

Any thoughts?

Comments

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

I would totes be into that! I mean, I've written ACD!Holmes and Jane Austen fic in the past...

[citrinesunset.livejournal.com]

Yay!

I gotta admit, I've really been taken by this idea. I wrote Wuthering Heights fic for Yuletide a couple years back, myself.

Do you think you might know of any ACD!Holmes comms or other comms where they might be interested in something like this?

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

cox_and_co is a general Sherlock Holmes comm, but before the 2009 movie, it was pretty much all ACD -- so I think you'll be able to get a fair few ACD folks from there.

Perhaps it might also be worth trying saffic, which is a multi-fandom femslash comm -- but I think there should be a fair few folks there who are interested in writing for older source texts.

[citrinesunset.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll definitely keep those in mind if I go forward with this.