Labor Day Meme: Stories That Never Were

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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

Re: ! I have an actual story idea this corresponds to.

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There's been a lot of discussion over at Queerly Gen about what constitutes gen; the consensus seems to be that if the focus is not romance/sex, it's gen. For me, it's not gen if it has non-canonical romances, queer or otherwise, but that definition got shouted down as too restrictive. I'd call it slash/gen, het/gen or femslash/gen if it has a non-canonical background relationship. It's partially because it's so easy to write an apparently gen story that's actually all about a pairing - not that your story sounds at all like it would be.

:D I think you should write it. Time-travel, however redundant, happens all the time in all the Star Treks. The first time it happened it wasn't even discussed, it's like "So, we were monitoring 20th century Earth when..."