Tonight the Bands You've Heard Of/Bands I Like non-intersecting Venn diagram applies.
1. Hi! It's Friday night. I cleared my weekend to work on my dissertation, and now my brain is tired. You should assign me ficlets. Fandom/2 characters/6-word prompt, any fandom I've written in the past year (which totally qualifies Firefly, oy), no promises I will manage to write anything, in kind of a girlslash and/or dirty dickporn mood. Have I
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Ok, I'll play.
Figure skating RPS: girlslash. And I saw something recently that made me think Meryl Davis and Miki Ando at the GPF 2009 were kind of friendly if you're game. Otherwise, I'm itching to see Daisuke and Stephane together (even gave it a try. My lack of knowledge of Japanese culture made it a bit too difficult).
Six words: We do our best vampire routines (Mountain Goats - always great for inspiration).
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Meryl's trying to say, "I think you heard me wrong. I think there was a language error," but she's already in this girl's room, this girl who just lost to her friend, the friend she should be celebrating with, but instead she's celebrating with this other girl, this Japanese girl, Miki, she tells herself to stop pretending this girl is a stranger but when she tries to put a name on her, on this, it slides off like the name's been buttered, God, butter, Meryl can't wait for summer, can't wait to be back in her own kitchen, the slick sweet fat smell as she creams it into sugar, frosting licked off beaters, batter fingered in streaks from the bowl.
The boys do this - not Charlie, stone-cold straight and too shy to catch on if someone wanted to - but the other boys, Jer does this and lies, and the first time Meryl saw through him she got it wrong, teased, You ( ... )
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MORE VODKA FOR YOU!!! Seriously. I'm sending a case.
I love that ending: like she knows those boys, like they are both those boys and they both know it.
The style is very cool btw. Gives it a very intense quality. I don't know how you did that so off the cuff. I'm very envious. And in awe.
(incidentallly, how did you do it? Was it just a free form exercise where you just write and let it come out, or do you think about it a bit and what you want to write? Did the prompt help at all? The writing process always fascinates me).
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It's easier for me to write in this kind of experimental style off the cuff, actually my natural way of writing when I'm not concerned about grammar or logic. I don't know about process - some nights the creative writing just comes easily. I feel bad when people ask me about process because I tend not to feel like I really have one - I write, and the *process* happens in the revision stage. (And I don't really revise short pieces like this one.) The prompt is the title of the story in this case.
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