short story meme
Sep. 14th, 2009 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You know what? I think my short-story-producing brain needs a kick in the rump. So I'm going to meme for the first time in a while, with something I picked up by way of
yhlee and
mrissa.
(Incorporated Mris' edit -- the original phrasing had to do with "posting" stories, because it seems to have started among fanficcers. Also, as per Mris, I make no promises that these won't turn into real stories. In fact, I'm kind of hoping they will.)
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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 submitted to magazines, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
(Incorporated Mris' edit -- the original phrasing had to do with "posting" stories, because it seems to have started among fanficcers. Also, as per Mris, I make no promises that these won't turn into real stories. In fact, I'm kind of hoping they will.)
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Date: 2009-09-15 11:23 pm (UTC)No really. Except for the posting of snippets, THAT BOOK EXISTS.
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Date: 2009-09-16 01:19 am (UTC)(We'll be waiting on the snippets ... :-))
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Date: 2009-09-15 11:27 pm (UTC)Clearly card-game culture is prejudiced against lesbian relationships.
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Date: 2009-09-15 05:31 pm (UTC)(And I am going to steal this meme...)
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Date: 2009-11-18 11:39 pm (UTC)It all came about because of my frustration at stories which treat kids as being incapable of doing anything substantial just because of their youth. Sure, she has faery blood, but that isn't why she's able to make those decisions; it's just why she has to. And that distinction is more or less where the story came from.
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Date: 2009-09-16 07:18 pm (UTC)And of course, there's something lovely about watching a pompous fae making all his social intrigues and schemes, and suddenly realizing that they could all be brought to a halt with a simple blow to the head. Really, more fae politickers ought to end up that way. :)
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Date: 2009-11-18 11:42 pm (UTC)You want to know a dirty secret? Originally I thought there would be an intriguey schemey political answer to the conflict, and I wrote 90% of the way through the story expecting that, but I just couldn't come up with anything that worked. And so I was sitting there thinking in frustration, "rocks fall, everyone dies" -- and then it occurred to me, well, why not just have somebody get clubbed over the head?
Which is also when I figured out the title.
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Date: 2009-09-17 04:39 am (UTC)(wait a second I might have to write this now)
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Date: 2009-11-18 11:44 pm (UTC)The story was actually the result of me being lazy 'Cause if I wrote about tulip smugglers during the actual Tulip Mania, I would have had to get my facts write -- but if I put them in space, I could just make shit up!
Plus the instant I thought of that, I imagined the scene where they hide the bulbs among the hen-alien's egg-cocoon-things, and then I just had to write it.