My Skin: Song Challenge Fanfiction

[ansketil_rose]

Title: The Wages of Honour
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Star Wars characters, they belong to George Lucas.
Rating: PG-13
Words: 9,000
Pairings: Anakin/Padmé and Anakin/Palpatine (obviously)
Summary: A general campaigning on the edge of winter is recalled by his emperor - only to be shocked into remembering the past they both share.
Author’s Note:

Comments

[veronicaprof]

Yes, sadly, that story died stillborn a long time ago. The problem was that without co-authors urging me on (Z.P.'s health prevented her from continuing to help, and Cara Loup lost interest in SW and moved on to Frodo/Sam fic, and M. J. Mink and I couldn't reach a consensus on where/what the story should go/be/do), I just couldn't do it alone.

For one thing, it seemed too much -- figuring out how to save the parallel universe Luke and Palpatine, and restore P and Vader, etc. without a co-author to offer ideas and criticism and to write some scenes from that Luke's pov. I never invented that character, so was never comfortable writing him or being in his head. And it is next to impossible to write a character without a sense of individual ego, and I made some progress in ideas of getting P to help give him one, but that was very hard as well.

And then the world lost all interest, with the exception of about 3 people.:)

But I keep thinking about the story from time to time, and wonder if I could start over, edit "Winter King" heavily and then proceed from there, with Luke being a bit less ego-less... Not sure.

You're so right about the inner monologues!

And as for your last question -- of course I do!

Let me know if you'd care to co-write something in that vein. :) After all, I think the amenities of a pleasure-planet should not be wasted!