Plotting Practice

[jedibuttercup]

OK. So. You may have noticed I've started clearing out my backlog of story starts and request-fic from all those months I wasn't writing. I'm a little rusty, though! I could use some imagination-practice to grease the mental wheels, but the last thing I need is more requests for stories, so I thought I'd resurrect an old meme instead:

Make up a title for a story I didn't write, and I will respond with descriptions of those non-written (and not-to-be-written) stories. You may, if you like, include details, such as pairings or fandom or whatnot.

(If you're curious about last year's version, click here).
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Comments

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

Somewhat inspired by your icon...

Tomorrow is Yesterday Buffy fandom... call it B/X. Eh?

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Sidhe Who Must Be Obeyed, and it's sequel, Resistance is Feudal.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

not even the rain (has such small hands), CSI

(I almost said Greg/Sara, but go with whatever the title says to you.)

[jedibuttercup]

Guh. I just googled that, and found the poem it's from. It's been years since I read any e. e. cummings-- but you couldn't find a more perfect poem for Sara if you tried. *wibble*

[thady.livejournal.com]

And I Feel Fine

Harry Potter/BtVS crossover. :)

[butterflykiki.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, The Sound of Dust, Doctor Who or Torchwood?

Or possibly, Non-Specific Variables of Emotional Acceleration, for, ummm, SG-1 or SG-A or any scifi type fandom.

[kerravonsen]

I don't think she's familiar with Doctor Who or Torchwood.

[brendanm720.livejournal.com]

I still say you should totally write "And Then There Was Pudding".

But, since you aren't going to...

"Batteries Not Included" BtVS/HP, must include a towel, a doorknob, and a large brass key. (Glowy green keys are completely at the author's discretion.)

[jedibuttercup]

It's not that I don't love the idea of "And Then There Was Pudding"; it's that it requires lots of Teal'c & Faith rewatching/research to do properly, and there's been other things more pressing.

If you want to borrow the idea, feel free. If not? I may get to it later in the year when I have to watch a lot of SG-1 for other fic research purposes anyway (the Wesley-on-SG-1 series).

[beatrice_otter]

Do Electric Sheep dream of Androids?

[avamclean.livejournal.com]

Quis ut Deus (rough translation:One Like God)

...

If I like your description can I write it?

[kerravonsen]

(icon love)

[jedibuttercup]

If you do? Feel free. Though I don't know how inspiring whatever I manage to come up with might be. =)

Love the icon.

[avamclean.livejournal.com]

I have faith. ;)

I found that image on a T-Shirt site and thought it'd make a fun icon.

I've got your titles right here!

[ignavus.livejournal.com]

- The glow of a biased ass

- Tree-mendous

- Cracks and Ruins

- The disguised lemon

- The sacred formula

*grin* I can keep making this crap up for a long time.

Re: I've got your titles right here!

[jedibuttercup]

LOL. Rather simpler than a lot of the clever/complicated prompts I've been getting, and not even a fandom, but I'll see what I can do with one of them. =)

[polgara-5.livejournal.com]

Oooh, sounds like fun. How about - Sometimes the Mobster Is Right for Dresden Files - noncross or cross with whatever. :D

[kerravonsen]

The Left Hand of Darkness Stargate, Maybourne

Knight of Ghosts and Shadows CSI, Grissom, crossover with a fantasy universe

Blossoms, Shattered Like Glass

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be 1970

[jedibuttercup]

Oooo. I'll probably just do one for the meme, but those all give some great mental images, which is exactly what a proper title should do. =)

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

I can't think of a title but what if Harry Potter was given to Coussin Hyacinth instead of Aunt Petunia. HP/KUA

[jedibuttercup]

The point of the meme is the title, though; you've given me the description instead, which is my part. =)

Goodness, I bet I haven't seen any of that series in the last eight years or so, since I moved out of my parents' house at least; they used to occasionally catch "Keeping Up Appearances" in rerun on a local Public Broadcast channel. That would be a fun cross; not a fandom I know well enough to actually write in, though.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Sorry, *sigh* you just write so well that I thought I'd run it by you. (Flattery gets me everywhere, right?)

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

Fred opens a portal and Angel and Co. end up on Marduk and meet Prince Roger and Co.?

[jedibuttercup]

You're supposed to give me the title and a fandom, and I'm supposed to give you the description. =)

That would be a fun story, though!

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I have a hard time grokking instructions sometimes :)

How about "Recovering the Lost Library"? in Drake's Leary-Mundy 'verse?

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

Indiana Jones and the Pryamid of Peril Indiana Jones/Stargate SG1 cross=)

if you're still taking submissions ....

[wolf-j.livejournal.com]

Title: "Living, Dead, and Otherwise"
X-over: BtvS/AtS, Dresden Files (books)