Writing meme.
I almost never post memes, but I love talking about writing and won't be doing much actual writing for the next couple of weeks, so if anyone wants to ask this'll keep my hand in, at least a little...
From musesfool:
Give me a letter or a few, and I'll answer ( Read more... )
From musesfool:
Give me a letter or a few, and I'll answer ( Read more... )
Oh, crap. I've written millions of words over hundreds of fics. I don't know! It's usually the dialogue that I remember. I'm the last person to ask about my prose. Hrm.
So I'll go with the opening to Near Misses:
Life is a series of happy accidents and near misses.
A woman forgets her keys and misses an audition for a role that would have made her famous. A young man picks a random class to fulfill a distribution requirement in college and is inspired to follow a whole new career path. A scientist accidentally leaves a petri dish open and discovers something that saves millions of lives.
Or the Browns keep their pool open an extra week, Puck catches Mrs. Brown’s cold, and he stays home sick for a day instead of being in school to suggest that Kurt should go to Dalton to spy on the Warblers as a way to make him stop trying to organize the week’s Glee Club assignment.
So Kurt doesn’t.
Two boys don’t meet on a staircase. They can barely be said to meet in high school at all.
Kurt Hummel doesn’t speak to Blaine Anderson beyond a polite handshake between competitors after New Directions wins the show choir Sectionals Kurt’s junior year. Blaine Anderson doesn’t notice Kurt Hummel beyond being impressed by his brief solo during the performance. Their eyes don’t linger on each other beyond an extra two seconds.
Kurt doesn’t confront Karofsky in the locker room, he doesn’t transfer from McKinley because his life isn’t explicitly threatened, and he doesn’t find acceptance and understanding in a gay friend and boyfriend. He doesn’t find companionship to ward off his loneliness and isolation. He doesn’t find love.
Blaine doesn’t gain a best friend who challenges him and sees through his carefully crafted exterior, he doesn’t learn about what it truly means to be in love, and he doesn’t transfer away from Dalton. He doesn’t find someone who accepts him for his insecurities and flaws. He doesn’t find himself.
One little change, a near miss instead of a happy accident.
Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson don’t become friends. They don’t become boyfriends. They don’t support each other through bullying, through proms, through fears and disappointments, through different schools, through reaching for their dreams, through the first fumbling steps of love and all that comes after.
They don’t become Kurt-and-Blaine.
This is what happens instead.
I like it because it's short and sweet and yet - to me - rips us out of canon and places us somewhere else, and it makes me sad to read it.
O. If you could choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose?
Near Misses! In part it's just because it's so long, so it would be really fun to see all of it (and hey, two sex scenes! *wink*), but mostly I would pay really good money to see a couple of scenes come to life, the fight in chapter fifteen through them going to breakfast in the beginning of chapter sixteen in particular. I see so much of the fic so vividly that it would be amazing for it to be happening in front of me.
AN. Write an alternative ending to a fic you've written (specify by title, link or general description).
Oh crap again. How can I make an AU of one of my fics? They're mostly short and canonical; there isn't usually anywhere else they could have gone.
Um...
*sits here for a while, thinking*
Well, so here's an insight into how my writing brain works! There is a story. it is what it is. It's fixed, even when it's not written, and it is very, very hard for me to change it. About the only thing that comes to mind is expanding "Being Kurt Hummel" to go through the break-up and more of Kurt coming into his own sexuality and finding acceptance in New York and then being more confident in himself by the time he gets back together with Blaine.
Aargh, that one is just really hard for me, apparently. I'm sorry! Thank you for asking!
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