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[catslash]

Meme! Swiped from misslucyjane. And this one is actually *gasp* NOT an RP meme.

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.

Comments

[mmexlibris]

My absolute all-time favourite story of yours was Send Not To Tell, and while I'm not a big slasher, nobody but nobody writes Javert/Valjean like you do. That scene in Javert's tiny room, where the salt spilled all over the floor? I thought my heart was going to explode. It was brilliant. ~flails~ Did your keyboard melt when you were writing that? Because seriously.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I'm so glad that worked for someone. I hate writing smut, or anything even remotely smutlike, but I kind of had to go there or the fic would have fallen apart. So I just tried not to be too explicit. XD I love that you noticed the salt! That was my favorite thing in the fic, I think, but it's such a little thing that I wasn't sure anyone else would really pick up on it.

[littlestclouds.livejournal.com]

I really liked your fic Tell Me No Lies. I thought it was cool how you had Dean summon John's spirit to help him find Sam after he was kidnapped by the band of marauding vampires.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Well, you know I had to work John in there somehow. And I really wanted to do something a little different in exploring John's relationships with both his sons (NO, not like that . . . at least not this time), and all the pre-show and S1/S2 angles have been done to death. I actually got the idea from the episode of Grey's Anatomy where Meredith almost dies but Denny and some others talk her into going back. TELL NO ONE.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I loved that scene in "Jeeves and the Teabags", where Bertie realizes he's in love with Jeeves, poignant and yet totally IC.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

Would you even believe I tried to write that fic from Jeeves's POV first? Man, that did not work at all. XD

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

Jeeves' POV is notoriously hard to write from, old thing!

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

Your best Housefic ever was Wallpaper, where Wilson goes home while he's still high on speed and the wallpaper starts talking to him in the voices of all his ex-wives. It was super crack, but also kind of tragic for Wilson. I kept thinking that House was going to show up and apologize and take care of him. Were you going to put that in at all.

[catslash.livejournal.com]

I was originally going for just out-and-out crack with that, but Wilson kind of got in the way, and his first wife's voice was a little clearer for me than I expected, so I just went with it and did a lot of work trying to balance the more serious bits with the funnier stuff.

And yeah, I was planning to have House come by, but - surprise! - he didn't cooperate.

So, basically, I didn't write what I set out to write at all, but I like it better how it came out, so I guess I can live with that.

[littlestclouds.livejournal.com]

I wish this actually existed.