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Hello there! I know I haven't been around a lot lately, but I found a fun meme to play with, so please respond!
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awanderingbard:Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.
My fanfic can be found on LJ using the tag fanfic--or clicking here. That includes even my most recent little stories (ha! as if I ever wrote a truly "little" story). I haven't updated Aelfgyfu's Mead Hall recently, but that's the only place to read most of my longer stories/novels.
All these stories involved things that never made it into writing or made it and were later cut, so don't hesitate to ask about a short one, a long one, or a long-ago one.
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awanderingbard:Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page. My fanfic can be found on LJ using the tag fanfic--or clicking here. That includes even my most recent little stories (ha! as if I ever wrote a truly "little" story). I haven't updated Aelfgyfu's Mead Hall recently, but that's the only place to read most of my longer stories/novels.
All these stories involved things that never made it into writing or made it and were later cut, so don't hesitate to ask about a short one, a long one, or a long-ago one.
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*HUGS*
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I'm very fond of "Fostering Relations" myself. That's one that started as a kind of parodic response to kidfic and then became serious and grew a Bill Lee subplot and went places I didn't expect.
I ended up researching Old Persian (Wikipedia has an article here, though I'm pretty sure I used more than that) and trying to research Persian food. Iended up settling for Iranian food, which is not always identical. I read Wikipedia on Iranian cuisine, I looked up menus of Persian restaurants—and I think the only thing that ended up in the story was that they had something like lamb, after I'd done all that reading about herbs spices. It made me hungry.
And now I'm hungry again and want to go back to Reza's, where I had real Persian food many years ago (which might possibly have flavored my setting of the story, and the meal details left out), but Reza's is in Chicago and I'm in Florida, so I'm not going there anytime soon—and you're probably hungry now too.
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I love reading about food in books and fics. I would always imagine the meals and the flavors. Sometimes the real thing doesn't compare, but sometimes it surpasses (more than disappoints). I TOTALLY understood Sebastian in Neverending Story. One would often find me holed up with a book and some snacks (even though my parents frowned on food combined with books...yes...quite a few pages had chocolate marks left on them when I was small, lol!)
Sorry...rambly. And hungry.
*SQUISHES*
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Ahhh, Hawkeye Pierce. What a magnificent bastard. *Has nostalgia Feels*
Urk. Many blessings to you, lovie.
*SQUISHES*
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Thanks for the thought, but no, we're not on Army rations!
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I don't think that is still on the menu, but I'm sure your improvisation was fabulous in its own right. :-)
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It's hard to reply with something about "Oxford" that didn't make it into the story, however, because pretty much everything I thought or wondered and everything I learned in the course of writing it made it into the post, either the story or the notes. I mentioned in a previous entry the dream I had that inspired the story.
Writing "Sunrise over Eden," I learned of historic Mount Eden Prison and decided to project it into the future. It has an unhappy history, though, which I did not project into the future. I do wonder what will happen there.
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The story of the prison is fascinating. Buildings/institutions such as that can't help but have interesting back stories. Truth is stranger and all that. The visual of a prison flanked on either side by a school for boys is evocative all on its own.
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Still, I can't complain. I always envied people who got fic out of dreams, and now I've had one of my own, which I never expected.
I imagine teachers at those two boys' schools threatening students with prison if they didn't behave. Wrong, but I bet it happened!
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I shall hold out hope that one day I shall have a prompty dream which I actually remember and I vow to love the fic which results no matter how odd or black sheepish it turns out to be.
And you're right, they absolutely did, no matter how wrong. Teachers are only human and boys will be boys.
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Fresh Scars or New Tracks
So I'm predictable ;)
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SPOILERS FOR "NEW TRACKS" IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT (they're not spoilers if you have, obviously):
The scene where Nick walks in on Stephen's hydrotherapy and sees his scars? That went through several incarnations before it made its way onto the page. I originally imagined it happening later in Stephen's recovery, in the Ark locker room, where Nick is being nosy and Stephen finally has enough and basically flashes him to show off his scars. My idea was that Stephen would be doing it in an exasperated, not quite spiteful way, not expecting Nick's reaction—and that poor Nick would, of course, see the scars and be far more horrified than Stephen expected. I couldn't get a handle on the scene that way, though. Sometimes, I felt like Stephen was being too nasty. Mostly, though, Nick wouldn't stop hyperventilating, and I couldn't get him out of the scene to recover. I needed to separate the boys, to give each of them time to process, so I ended up setting that scene where someone could send Nick away.
Otherwise, it probably would have gone into the third fic, which still exists only in my head (but may some day exist outside, and if it does, you'll be the second to know, after Brilliant Husband). I think it works better where I put it in the series; it's still part of the healing process, and it needs to happen well before Stephen's back in a position where he's well enough to be in the locker room.
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My internet and computer have been crawling a lot lately, otherwise I would have responded to this a lot sooner...
Thanks for the insights - you did mention the original scene to me back when I was betaing the fic for you, but this has more detail about it and I'm always fascinated by behind the scenes.
I agree with the way you did end up writing the scene and where you put it, though it would be fun to see the outtake of NoseyNick getting a shock *G*. LOL at the poor man reacting more strongly than you expected. I'm glad you didn't go with NastyStephen.
I'm glad I'll be the second person in line to know if fic 3 gets written! Hee. I shall keep it in my prayers.
I'm doing some boring, necessary stuff at the moment, then I can get back to writing fic - where Jenny and Claudia get to meet and coexist.