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browngirl ([personal profile] browngirl) wrote2009-09-07 12:29 pm

Labor Day Meme: Stories That Never Were

From [livejournal.com profile] 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.

ZOMG, My Hal really is a lot like my Jim Kirk.

[identity profile] rubynye.livejournal.com 2009-09-07 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
The first sentence: "Hal, my sweet lad!"
The last sentence: So Falstaff went from the sight of his hard-eyed young king.
The thing that made me want to write it: Overconfidence. Falstaff's adoration of Hal shines off the page, and I tend to give characters what they want, at least proximately.
The biggest problem I had while writing it/Why it almost never got posted: What possessed me to think I could write a story entirely in iambs? I kinda sorta managed it for most of the dialogue. Kinda.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor: Scroop's on-stage cameo.
Something else that I want readers to know: If "My Day of Trouble" hadn't met such a quiet reception I might try this for real. But the iambs are a real problem.

Re: ZOMG, My Hal really is a lot like my Jim Kirk.

[identity profile] petronelle.livejournal.com 2009-09-08 09:33 am (UTC)(link)
*siiiiighs*

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.