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deird_lj ([personal profile] deird_lj) wrote2009-09-16 06:14 am
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Memeage

(nabbed from [livejournal.com profile] snickfic)


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.


Tell me about a story I've never written!
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (old world (Darla & Dru))

[personal profile] deird1 2009-09-16 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh! I'm glad someone chose that one!

It was actually written for a drabble challenge (pairing Drusilla with a human) and then expanded out when I realised how much could be done with it.

The first line was originally just "Wesley couldn't keep her in check anymore" - and a much more ambiguous opening scene, where "her" wouldn't be identified until Gunn saw her face. But that would have been too sudden, rather than just allowing the creepiness-factor to slowly creep (heh) up on you.

Some day I'm going to go back and rewrite the ending, so that I can do a sequel. (I'd kinda need both of them alive, really...)
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[personal profile] snickfic 2009-09-16 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Win!

(I was very curious to know who you'd pair her with. Are you up for another? I realized after I posted the comment that there was another one I wanted commentary on...)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-09-16 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! Give me more!

(This is so much fun.)
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[personal profile] snickfic 2009-09-16 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yay!

So, Calligraphy. I wouldn't have said such a thing as lyrical mpreg was possible, but you made it so! Share your secret?

(Isn't it though? I'm still hoping for more responses on mine. Like I told someone else, it's like getting to write the commentary without having to actually write the fic.)
deird1: Fred looking pretty and thoughful (Default)

[personal profile] deird1 2009-09-16 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
I'd love to say I started the story with the intention of making it so poetic, but I'd be lying. :)

Actually, I was writing it normally and having enormous trouble making it work, until I realised that William The Bloody's internal monologue would obviously be filled with poetry. After that it was easy...

(I was scared silly that no-one would read it, but I think the opening scene with Darla threatening the wet-nurse got people's attention.)
snickfic: Buffy looking over her shoulder (Default)

[personal profile] snickfic 2009-09-16 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Bwah.

(And, all right, you knew I'd want to read this one...)