The Greatest Meme Ever

[lirazel]

Everybody's doing it! (By everybody, I mean angearia and snickfic, of course!) I don't have any confidence I'll do it nearly as well as they have, but I'll take a whack at it nonetheless because theirs were so fun.


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 posted, 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.

Aaaand...GO!

Comments

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Gotta go with Silence Speaks. Any story that starts with the spell from Hush not being broken is one I'm dying to read. Oh, but you already know why i love it!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Well, of course you love it! I got to write Anya being ridiculously inappropriate and finding new ways to make suggestive comments without actually speaking--which really tested the boundaries of my creativity, you know, since I'm not a very filthy-minded person. And I know you were always fond of the fact that when they couldn't talk to fill the silence, of course Buffy and Riley would figure out that they didn't have any passion in their relationship, and he'd take off a good deal earlier. And the scene with Tara teaching Willow sign language? Well, I think it managed to be pretty sensual without being explicit, you know? Plus, I got to describe lots more Giles-is-a-terrible-artist scenes, which are always my favorite. And then there's the Spike-and-Buffy scenes....But why don't you just go reread them instead of letting me ramble on like this!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

No, no! Tell me more about the Spike and Buffy scenes! :D

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Weeeelllll...how was he going to seduce her if he couldn't speak? That was the big challenge, once I wrote the scene where he walks in on her in the shower because she couldn't yell to let him know someone was in the bathroom (trying to figure out a way to get Buffy to take a shower at Giles's house was torturous, by the way) and he realizes he wants to seduce her. So of course I had to write a fight-scene-that-turns-into-a-sex-scene without it being derivative of "Smashed." Challenging stuff!

It's a pretty fanon fic, what with Buffy and Spike getting together so much earlier than they ever really would have, but I'm glad you enjoyed it anyways!

[snickfic]

*whimpers*

*wants to read this fic so bad, because it hits all my S4 Spuffy buttons so hard*

*whimpers some more*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Haha! That's the absolutely worst thing about this meme, isn't it? Now there are all these stories that I want to read so badly but that don't exist!

I'm glad I could hit your buttons, even if only in description form!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I just wrote an idea for deird1 that I'm kinda in love with. Oh, man. Why can't these fics just write themselves?

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I just checked that one out, and I gotta say: I wouldn't hate to read it, either.

[snickfic]

So maybe as a closer to the meme, we should all each pick one of 'our' stories to actually write. (Or maybe there could be voting!)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Tempting!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking about that! I need something to do after TYSK is through (which is happening way faster than I'd thought).

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Not to be a nag, but are you still going to do that really angsty Buffy's-with-Angel-but-loves-Spike one? Because you know how I feel about angst....

Actually, anything you decide to write will make me go flaily with joy. I'll follow blissfully along!

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Nag away! Yep, that's my plan for Seasonal Spuffy. Which works well because I think the theme is "distance" and that scene is all about distance between Buffy and Spike. There's 5,000 words written already. My plan is to wrap up TYSK, then work on Secret Heart (working title).

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, goody! I am so excited, I can't even tell you! I have a feeling it's going to hit a bunch of my kinks (AAAAAANGST!).

*needs to work on S_S*

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Do you have any ideas for S_S? Shaaaaaaare!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Well, actually...If you go here and read aisalynn's description of her future Spuffy...I'm kind of writing that. It stuck in my head, and I couldn't get it out, so I PMed her and begged her to let me write it since she said she wasn't going to, and she agreed. So that's what I'm working on. And it totally fits the "distance" theme, too.

I'm excited about it and I think it'll be really good (if I can get myself to write more), but I'm a little paranoid because it's not the typical "happily-ever-after" sort of ending. I will post it anyways.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure it'll be awesome! I'm honestly still incredibly worried about writing my fic because it has Buffy choosing Angel to be with. It's all "Nooooo!"

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Honestly, the first time I heard you describe it, I was all "Nooooo!" too, but the idea grew on my so much. I'm sure it'll be amazing.

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Inorite?!!!

*whimpers with you*

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I'm so evil! *mad cackles*