Memeage

[deird1]

(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

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[eowyn_315]

How about All Creatures Great and Small? I love the twist at the end where it's all in Dawn's head!

[deird1]

Heh. Fun fact: I didn't actually realise it should be Dawn's imagination until halfway through!

The whole thing started out because I wanted the scene with Buffy and Xander fighting about the Pretzel Stand, and just... expanded.
I seriously spent a week trying to make the whole thing make sense, and only realised the solution when I started writing the bit with Willow's feet.

So, I'm glad you liked my genius twist-at-the-end, and I'm going to grin meaningfully and pretend I really meant for it to happen the whole time...

[eowyn_315]

LOL!

[beer_good_foamy]

Gotta be The Ghost Who Walks. I mean, everyone and their dog has written a Dana story where she relives past Slayers' lives, but... how the hell did you come up with that angle?

[deird1]

I dunno, I think it was probably reading yet another discussion about who the "real" Slayer was, and whether Buffy's death would cause a third Slayer to be called. From there it was just a short jump into my AU.

One scene that I really wanted to include would have had Buffy!Dana meeting up with Willow and Dawn - just before the third flashback - but in the end, it seemed a bit unnecessary, especially given Willow's reaction at the end.
Plus, getting rid of that scene allowed me to keep the whole thing much more creepy, with a lot more doubt about who's really in control...

[snickfic]

Hurrah! This means I get to bother you, now. :)

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.

[deird1]

Ooh! I'm glad someone chose that one!

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...)

[snickfic]

Win!

(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...)

[deird1]

Yay! Give me more!

(This is so much fun.)

[lavastar]

(Hee, fun!)

I think your best fic is definitely The Tea Cup - I'd never considered the possibility of Snyder and Oz being good friends, but you really made it work!

[deird1]

(Well, honestly, if Oz was going to talk to anyone about his deepest and darkest secrets, who would you think it'd be?)

It was harder than I thought, actually. Managing to balance Snyder's dismissive snarkiness of everyone including Oz with Oz just not - um... not not caring exactly, but... not caring about caring, if you get what I mean - was really tricky.

I'm glad I did it as a drabble series (drabbles work so well for short snippets of conversation) but it did mean I had to ditch an extra 57 words from the bit where Snyder's ranting about red pen corrections. I just had so much to say!

[snickfic]

*really reallys wants to read this fic*

[deird1]

*almost wants to write it*

[penny_lane_42]

Dang, you're good at this!

My favorite is Lightning in a Bottle--a full-fledged Gunn/Gwen fic? Do you know how hard those are to find? I think my favorite scene, though, is when they run into Wesley's dad--such a twist, and you pulled it off perfectly.

[deird1]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was incredibly fun to write.

But what with the cyborg!Dad from canon, and the irresistable idea of having a whole group of them plus the real one, how could I not write it?

Originally it ended two paragraphs earlier (the bit that finishes "...twisted metal that only gets more twisty."), but I decided it needed a more rounded-out conclusion. (And plus, finishing with Gunn's axe hitting the window was fun!)

[penny_lane_42]

There can never be too many cyborgs in the world. And I'm glad you went with the axe thing; Gunn's axe is my second favorite weapon in the Buffyverse, right after the rocket launcher.