Commentating Meme (from astreamofstars)

[marzipanilla]

Pick any passage of 500 words (or around that- or a drabble) from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you the equivalent of a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words,

Comments

[plaid_slytherin]

"You wanted to talk," he reminded him as the silence continued

[marzipanilla]

This story! Whenever I poke my toe at utter crack!fic based ideas, something strangely serious comes of it. Shoulda known you'd pick it..

I wanted to acknowledge Bill's kids, and Zak's death. Not dwell a lot of time on it because this is such a short piece, but putting that out there was important.

There also needed to be a moment where the two of them talked about their situation- which was totally absent from my initial story idea- which was just the Cottle POV in sickbay where they find out.

It was a lot of fun writing them, first time I've ever tried it. They've known each other so long that it worked for me that they'd be able to pull through. Of course, it couldn't be perfect, but at this point I felt like the boat had settled enough so that they no longer felt like they were getting tossed around and could actually help each other out.

Hm.. S'bout it. -laugh-