This icon perfectly expresses what my day has been like. Please help me improve my mood by participating in this fic meme, stolen from the_tenzo: Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you something about the story that didn't make it onto the page.
Finally, one where a ton of material got left out of the final draft!
"Without a Hitch" started completely differently, even to the point of having a different title ("Ghosts of Las Vegas"). It was going to be a cracking action-adventure where Sarah Jane took a freelance assignment for a travel magazine that wanted a puff piece on ghosts in Las Vegas. She was going to investigate various ghost sightings, which of course were really all hype and no ghost, until she ran into Nine in a bar and they ended up dealing with a ghost sighting that turned out to be hostile aliens. Wacky Las Vegas hijinks would have ensued.
This all got canned because I realized pretty quickly that cracking action-adventure requires a plot, which I am pretty much incapable of writing. What I had on the page sat there limply until I threw it all out and started over with what became the final story. I keep thinking I should try to write the prequel, in case the rumors of Rusty using a similar plot in one of the specials turn out to be true, but it may be that this story will only ever work in my head and not on the page.
"Splinters," unlike "Without a Hitch," is one of those stories that went directly from my brain, to TextEdit, to the comment box on the kinkmeme. There's nothing left out of it, and I think the only edit between the original and final version is that I changed the order of one phrase: gnarled-hand-in-hand became hand-in-gnarled-hand, because the modifier causes less confusion in the second position (and also because I like the rhythm better).
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on 2009-01-31 03:56 am (UTC)Also, if you can do it for a kinkmeme story, the Nine/Jabe one that I adooooore.
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on 2009-01-31 03:58 pm (UTC)"Without a Hitch" started completely differently, even to the point of having a different title ("Ghosts of Las Vegas"). It was going to be a cracking action-adventure where Sarah Jane took a freelance assignment for a travel magazine that wanted a puff piece on ghosts in Las Vegas. She was going to investigate various ghost sightings, which of course were really all hype and no ghost, until she ran into Nine in a bar and they ended up dealing with a ghost sighting that turned out to be hostile aliens. Wacky Las Vegas hijinks would have ensued.
This all got canned because I realized pretty quickly that cracking action-adventure requires a plot, which I am pretty much incapable of writing. What I had on the page sat there limply until I threw it all out and started over with what became the final story. I keep thinking I should try to write the prequel, in case the rumors of Rusty using a similar plot in one of the specials turn out to be true, but it may be that this story will only ever work in my head and not on the page.
"Splinters," unlike "Without a Hitch," is one of those stories that went directly from my brain, to TextEdit, to the comment box on the kinkmeme. There's nothing left out of it, and I think the only edit between the original and final version is that I changed the order of one phrase: gnarled-hand-in-hand became hand-in-gnarled-hand, because the modifier causes less confusion in the second position (and also because I like the rhythm better).