Labor Day Meme: Stories That Never Were
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petronelle, who filled this in glorious manner. Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
Feel free to try any fandom you have reason to think I know, but if I don't at all know the fandom I'll have to say so.
petronelle, who filled this in glorious manner. Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know. Feel free to try any fandom you have reason to think I know, but if I don't at all know the fandom I'll have to say so.
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Holy crap, I want to read this.
Date: 2009-09-08 02:08 am (UTC)The last sentence: She looked over her shoulder with a blinding smile. "Are you coming?"
The thing that made me want to write it:
Pike's documented thing for Orion girlsYou said it so well above! You saw everything I was trying to do. I would just be restating if I tried to describe.The biggest problem I had while writing it/Why it almost never got posted: Doing Number One justice.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: The threesome with Kirk. My id wanted it, my superego said no.
Something else that I want readers to know: I'm actually working on a Pike/Gaila story right now; thank you for this, as it helps.
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Date: 2009-09-08 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-08 02:10 am (UTC)If I were still there I would try this.
Date: 2009-09-08 02:14 am (UTC)The last sentence: "Home again, home again, jiggety jig."
The thing that made me want to write it: I had never written a mystery.
The biggest problem I had while writing it/Why it almost never got posted: I had never written a mystery. I literally ran around my living room making squeaky distressed noises.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: None, actually. I crawled through this story slowly, but without false starts.
Something else that I want readers to know: I would try this if I were still in the DCU fandom, but I doubt I'd actually get anywhere.
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Date: 2009-09-08 02:16 am (UTC)The way you write Amita makes me jealous. I wish I could do a better job of sounding like a mathematician when I write from her (or Charlie's, for that matter) POV.
If I write one of these it will be this one.
Date: 2009-09-08 02:19 am (UTC)The last sentence: "Farewell, Son of George!"
The thing that made me want to write it: Getting Jim Kirk into Mycenean clothes, honestly. I have my shallownesses.
The biggest problem I had while writing it: Keeping Jim and Theseus balanced between competition and mutual amusement and admiration, especially since Theseus is actually straight.
Why it almost never got posted: I got stuck at the point when Medea appeared in the cave entrance and ululated.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: Theseus deciding he wasn't so straight. Tempting, but not IC.
Something else that I want readers to know: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and also !
I am trying so hard not to wake the baby, omg
Date: 2009-09-08 02:23 am (UTC)The last sentence: "Winslow? Still a virgin."
The thing that made me want to write it: Like Jim, the idea came to me in the shower.
The biggest problem I had while writing it/Why it almost never got posted: I had trouble thinking of how to convey the montage scenes. Not to mention the inevietable monogamy issues.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: I almost let Jim get Ensign Winslow, but the story really wouldn't've been nearly as funny if I had.
Something else that I want readers to know: How did you know my estimate for the Enterprise's crew complement is 400-450?
I should have done this meme 3 months ago.
Date: 2009-09-08 02:27 am (UTC)The last sentence: Charlie just sits silently, stroking Amita's hair, as all the decision trees collapse.
The thing that made me want to write it: It was as close as I could get to writing Amita/Charlie/Don.
The biggest problem I had while writing it/Why it almost never got posted: Oh, my God, the math takes so much research, and I usually can't understand 90% of what I read.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: The first outline had Don saying yes.
Something else that I want readers to know: I meant to write something much like this for the
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Date: 2009-09-08 02:37 am (UTC)"Set the Battlements on Fire" was appropriately hot, but what made it worth reading was the way it answered the question of how those two got together in the first place.
Re: If I write one of these it will be this one.
Date: 2009-09-08 02:37 am (UTC)Oh god oh god I so want to read this!!!
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Date: 2009-09-08 02:38 am (UTC)Re: I am trying so hard not to wake the baby, omg
Date: 2009-09-08 02:39 am (UTC)Let the baby sleep and wake up the plotbunny instead! If anyone could write this one, it would be you.
And I think four hundred and thirty crew was canon for TOS, although it's been years since I knew that cold.
I don't usually write first times, but if I did...
Date: 2009-09-08 02:41 am (UTC)The last sentence: Jim goes to sleep with Bones's arm slung over his waist, thinking that this is the best bad decision he ever made.
The thing that made me want to write it: Answering the question, even if just for myself, of how/when my Kirk & McCoy started sleeping together.
The biggest problem I had while writing it/Why it almost never got posted: I usually need more reason than this to write a first time. I am actually not fond of them, as a rule.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: I can't bring myself to write jealous-fit-pitching.
Something else that I want readers to know: I'm not actually going to write this story, but I do know how it would go if I did. I'm not writing it because it's not sufficiently different from all the other "they hook up at the Academy" stories, if less monogamous than the majority thereof.
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Date: 2009-09-08 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-08 02:44 am (UTC)And I saw what
Re: Holy crap, I want to read this.
Date: 2009-09-08 02:57 am (UTC)YES! ::fistpumps; smashes elbow into chair:: Owwww.
The threesome with Kirk. My id wanted it, my superego said no.
My id coshed my superego and is standing over its unconscious body, cheerfully projecting those images into my forebrain. Is there such a thing as too much sex appeal? Because really: what better way to cheer up an invalid than two incredibly athletic, flexible, nubile, kinky, imaginative, gorgeous partners? Talk about incentive to get better...
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Date: 2009-09-08 09:28 am (UTC)Your take on Tim-as-the-object-of-almost-everyone's-desire was simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, and watching him pull through to figuring out the distinctions between what he needed, what he wanted, and what he could live with was one of the truest character moments I've ever seen.
Re: ZOMG, My Hal really is a lot like my Jim Kirk.
Date: 2009-09-08 09:33 am (UTC)You thought you could write a story *mostly* in iambs because you really could. It's the mostly you have to hang onto.
You and your Scroop. <3
PS I need to go find "My Day of Trouble" now that I've actually read Henry IV.
Oracle: Queen of Fables
Date: 2009-09-08 09:41 am (UTC)Oracle-as-Maeve is going to stick with me all the harder because, due to the vagaries of life, my computer is sitting on top of the following as I type this:
oh, the cover art (http://www.amazon.com/Ink-Steel-Novel-Promethean-Age/dp/0451462793/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252402721&sr=1-8) and drive that point home! (http://www.amazon.com/Hell-Earth-Novel-Promethean-Age/dp/0451462181/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252402721&sr=1-3)
Re: Oh, you mean "You Again?!"
Date: 2009-09-08 10:07 am (UTC)*Anything* between them makes me squeak a lot.
(And whomever's between them would respond similarly, I expect.)
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Date: 2009-09-08 12:16 pm (UTC)I know you wrote it for Dana, but it felt like you wrote it for me.
Re: Oracle: Queen of Fables
Date: 2009-09-08 12:35 pm (UTC)I had to think for awhile to remember my Pippin.
Date: 2009-09-08 06:16 pm (UTC)The last sentence: "Well, it wouldn't be the Shire without mushrooms," said Pippin, watching sidelong as Pervinca smiled.
The thing that made me want to write it: I wrote Merry realizing how his kin had suffered without him by conversing with his cousin Beri, so I had to give Pippin an equivalent story with his sister.
The biggest problem I had while writing it: I had several false starts. For instance...
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: Not a scene, but the first line was originally a more straightforwardly symbolic statement about Pervinca's restrained hairstyle when she'd previously worn it loose.
Anything else: AHAHAHA I almost had to go and write the whole drabble just to answer this. Well played! *grins and hugs you*
Back in the day, huh?
Date: 2009-09-08 06:20 pm (UTC)The last sentence: Smiling, Tim takes a deeper breath and turns around.
The thing that made me want to write it: I have a thing, in fiction and in real life, for people who don't realize how lovely they are. I like telling them.
The biggest problem I had while writing it: This wasn't a story that could end with Tim having a harem, as it were, though it hurt my polyamorous soul to admit it.
Why it almost never got posted: The entire Batfamily had an epic brawl inside my head over who got Tim at the end.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: I really kind of wanted to end this with a fivesome, but there's gratuitous and gratuitous.
Anything else: BWEE. That is all. Also, see icon.
Re: I had to think for awhile to remember my Pippin.
Date: 2009-09-08 06:39 pm (UTC)And a perfect last line. Thank you, dear!