Memeage
(nabbed from 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 ( Read more... )
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 ( Read more... )
I think I'm gonna have to go with She Walks in Beauty, which has to be the creepiest Dru/somebody-other-than-Spike story I've ever read. Plus, the parasol! Everything about the parasol was fantastic - a really fabulous use of the symbolism.
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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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(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...)
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(This is so much fun.)
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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.)
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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.)
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(And, all right, you knew I'd want to read this one...)
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