Labor Day Meme: Stories That Never Were

[browngirl]

From 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.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

What the hey, I'll do my own meme.

"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.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Sting/Copeland! They only THINK they hate each other!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

*collapses agiggle*

I don't usually write first times, but if I did...

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

The first sentence: Three weeks after they met, Jim decides not to sleep with Bones.
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.