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swan_tower) wrote2009-09-14 10:28 pm
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short story meme
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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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.