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Oh, hey! A meme. I don't do these often, but this one caught my interest. Swiped from caruso, whose new SN I had to think about to remember even though I was JUST looking at the entry:

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you something I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing it that didn't make it onto the page.

Everything fic-related on my journal is under the fic tag. My memories also have a couple older things that only got posted to comms or what-have-you, though I warn you that the older a fic, the less likely I am to remember writing it. You can ask about prompt challenges or whatever, too - if it's a bit of fic, and I wrote it, it's eligible.

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What was interesting with those was finding the difference between the Smecker who decided his son didn't need him and he didn't need his son and the one realized how wrong that all was. He does not, to put it mildly, reach out to other people easily. I had to figure out what would change that. In both fics, in a way, it was the same thing - something unexpected, a shock. Owen's death in the first made him realize he'd fucked up yet again, and the surprise of Il Duce's parting words (like, actually having parting words to offer) combined with the parallels between them (sons who grew up without knowing them) in the second. Plus, of course, the physical, mental, and emotional strain he'd already gone through with Yakavetta's trial.

So, in short, with those I learned a little about writing the same situation two different ways with two different outcomes and making them both make sense. Though I admit I like the depressing one better.