Writing Mememe Exercise Thingy.

[ellenmillion]

Stolen from mizkit who also stole it...

Here’s what you need to do:

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.

As per the others, I make no promises that these won’t turn into real stories. Also, I make no guarantees as to how many of these I’ll do. Five is a safe bet; more than that, maybe not, but heck, play along anyway.

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This looked entirely like too much fun!

Comments

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

Up to now my favorite among the stories you've never written is your Torn World story 'Paper Butterfly'.

I loved the bitter-sweet mood and how you managed to give us a glimpse of the inner life of a Southern functionary that, although a loyal servant of his country,has doubts, curiosities, wonders at things and questions his choices.
I loved it even more because the Empire may seem very Orwellian on the outside: organized, rule-bound and cold, while in this story you succeded in showing us another side of it.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

First sentence: Bai loved the smell of fresh paper.

Scene that got cut: Ressa wading out into the fountain to save the windblown stack of license-requests. It was adorable and funny, but didn't add to the plot.

Last sentence: The power of a sheet of paper could be astounding.

Hardest part of this whole story: not sitting down and writing the whole thing (including the outtake) on the spot right now...

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

LOL! Glad you liked the prompt, I'm hopeful that we might be able to read the story at some point, then. :-)

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

For me, it was "Needles and Snow". I've always had an affection for your snow unicorns, so it was nice to see them again, but mostly, "Needles and Snow" was remarkable because it managed to be so engaging and entertaining while only having one character (or one human character, at least!) It never would have occurred to me to end it the way you did, but every time I read it, I'm left with a deep sense of peace and rightness.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

The hardest part of (not) writing this story was keeping Kativa in check. She's a difficult character to keep from falling into cliches.

The first sentence is: "Damn!"

I had to write this particular piece after falling into a deep snowbank and struggling to get up again. My husband didn't help matters by laughing at me.

Sharing the last sentence would give away the ending!