Never Written

[ptahrrific]

I love a good fake-fic meme.

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.

Comments

[ptahrrific]

That whole story was inspired by a conversation with sarcasticsra and one of her friends on how badly House (er, the show, not the character) handles the idea of addiction vs. dependence. Since I write so much continuity-fixing type fic for TCR, I figured I would try to do something reconciling the way painkillers are treated on House with, y'know, the real world.

...and then I realized I was in over my head, and decided to reconcile it with the TCRverse instead. Because there's a side effect in the Vaxafamily to explain anything.

I did actually do some research, though, after which any further ignorance I had about medical stuff was covered by writing in Stephen's POV, so that I can make vague allusions to things through the character's amusing misunderstandings and people will assume I actually know what I'm talking about =P

[aybara_max]

((I LOVE THIS MEME. The funniest thing is, I re-wrote my initial comment several times and somehow you managed to respond to all of the comments I never actually left :D))

Since I write so much continuity-fixing type fic for TCR, I figured I would try to do something reconciling the way painkillers are treated on House with, y'know, the real world. And THIS is why I enjoy your writing so.

[ptahrrific]

((That's awesome. This whole meme is like all the fun of meta, without any of the work of actually writing a fic.))

:D