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Writing: Accepting Requests

Okay, here's the deal. I like writing. I think I'm not too bad at it. No, wait, I love writing. And I don't do it enough anymore. I'm...shabby at plot, and tend to focus on words too much, maybe? I wish I could fix that part of me. The people who can spin a tale - three or foud different threads impacting on each other - amazes me.

But back to the point: the deal -

Give me a prompt and I'll write you something. Maybe a paragraph, maybe more. Hopefully more. But give me anything.

I won't be upset if in a few days there's nothing here in the comments, but I will be thrilled if there is.

And I'm serious; anything. Original fiction, fan fiction, poetry, humour, drama, angst, apocalypse, romance, noir. I don't mind trying to challenge myself, so things that might squick me are acceptable too. I'll just have to write around that and see where it leads me.

Be as brief or as detailed as you like.

Please. I'd really, really appreciated it if you gave me a prompt.

Thank you.

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Woman X is in the supermarket crying then two hours later she's staring out of a window laughing. I want to know how she got from A to B.

What do Tosh and Martha chat about down the pub in Cardiff? 100 words.

Okay, here's the Tosh & Martha piece. Supermarket woman I'm going to do tomorrow once I've gotten some sleep. I'm not very familiar with Martha so I apologise if she seems OOC or if the Torchwood plot points I allude to aren't ones you're familiar with!

I went a little over - 165 words, I believe:

"I'm over here, you know," Martha said, waving her hand in front of Tosh's face.

Tosh spun her head so quickly the blush might have been down to centrifugal force.

"You've been staring at him all night," Martha said. "He'll notice in a minute and you'll really need to be embarassed."

"Nah," Tosh shook her head, unfortunately self-conscious. "He never notices me."

"If you ask me," Martha said. "And I know you didn't ask me, but we're in a pub, and I'm pretty sure drunken advice on your love-life is mandatory, he's not worth it. Probably a wanker."

"Definitely," Tosh grinned, shyly. "Actually, last year, he shot the Captain and nearly caused the end of the world."

"See? That's what I'm talking about. You 'walk the earth' for an entire bloody year to save the universe, and you're still second best."

"You too? Men."

"Blondes."

"Yeah," Tosh replied. "Blondes," just fractionally too late. And Martha wondered what the rest of that story was.

Edited 2007-12-28 23:51 (UTC)

That's perfect! Martha being proactive and Tosh being more introverted. I especially love:

"If you ask me," Martha said. "And I know you didn't ask me, but we're in a pub, and I'm pretty sure drunken advice on your love-life is mandatory, he's not worth it.

Also, post it here: http://community.livejournal.com/lifeonmartha/443534.html (any comments will appear on this post: http://community.livejournal.com/lifeonmartha/443731.html ). Ya, rly. :-)

Thanks for the feedback! Good to know I was on target. I really have high hopes for Martha's stint on Torchwood, but only if she gets to wander around pointing out how effed up they are rather than becoming similarly effed up for the angst of it all. Unfortunately my faith in RTD is not great.

That said - thanks for the suggestion to post it there, and hey, I guess it can't hurt, right?

It's good to know you enjoyed it!

Supermarket prompt completed in new LJ entry! :D

Wow, what an awesome offer. I might need to do this myself :)

I'd like some zombie apocalypse fic please. As long or short as you like.

Glad you think it's a cool idea! If you do it too, I'll really be looking forward to seeing what you write!

Meanwhile, your zombie apocalypse fic is posted further up in my journal. ;)

Lee and Laura and the scene we didn't see between the two of them in Razor. :)

Done and posted! :D

Something based (somehow) on the Pants Game.

(If you're not familiar with it, you take a Star Wars quote and replace one of the words with the word pants. "The pants will be with you ... always." "You look strong enough to pull the pants off a gundark, kid." "You have pantsed me for the last time." Or if you prefer the PT: "Pants are our specialty, Chancellor.")

See further up the LJ for the end result!

a) I can't remember if I mentioned before that I think you are a cracking writer. <3 Based on one very very awesome short story Christina showed me once.

b) I always have a mental store of THOUSANDS of things I want people to write :D. OMG, write the one where Shylock or Fagin falls into a TIME WARP and meets the other one and they TEAM UP and travel through time FIGHTING CRIME and dealing with literary/RL anti-semitism. OH OH OH. I want this story MORE THAN BREAD. Alternatively write the one about the bunch of 17th century Czechoslovakian alchemists who live in a tower together (THIS TOWER REALLY EXISTS IN PRAGUE, APPARENTLY) and have wacky hijinks. OR, oh my god write the one about the circus full of SINISTER MAFIA CLOWNS. Who are morally grey, but not complete villains, and wander around gloomy carnival towns chain-smoking and squinting their eyes against the wind and having hard-bitten inner monologues. Or OH OH write Bible!mpreg where Joseph is the one who gets knocked up and Mary has to take care of him while they deal with all the gender norms of the time, OH MY GOD.

c) *flaily arm-wavey* :D

Also, oh god, I can't remember if I've said this yet but CONGRATULATIONS ON GETTING MARRIED, holy fuck. Dude! :D :D :D :D :D *hugs you loads*

Thank you! :D *hugs you loads too*

Holy fuck indeed! (Or rather, I hope not, for I think that's a bad thing to be saying right after being blasphemous about the immaculate conception...)

a) Thank you! Yes, I recall the story; you wanted to slash my protagonists, I think. This was in the days when I was still largely innocent of slash so that one stuck with me. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I think that story (years old now) is still one of the best things I've written. Largely because I actually finished it.

b) Okay, that's LOADS, so I'm going to wimp out and just pick one. Through a process of elimination:

I can't really do the first one because as AWESOME as it sounds, I've never actually seen or read Oliver and so don't really know Fagin and have only a cursory knowledge of The Merchant of Venice. Plus I don't have a lot of understanding of the major literary iconic anti-semitic icons so I couldn't do that justice, I don't think. I can't really do the Joseph one; not because mpreg is my one massive squick (because I promised I'd try to get over those) but because I'm crap at history and again, I think I'd just be making crap up about the time period (which seems integral to the prompt). And perhaps I'm wimping out a little. So that leaves the clowns or the alchemists. In the end I went for the alchemists on account of I've actually been to Prague twice and was wondering if it was that crazy tower with the crazy clock that you're talking about? Well, it is in my head, anyway...

Speaking of - I can't vouch for its quality, but I did write it and it's now posted further up the LJ.

c) *flaily arm-wavey right back at you!*

*GLEE*
convenient, because I love your writing!

I picked you some of the prompts from

getyourtoaster, so you can post anything you may write there if you like -- and you're welcome to any of the others, too. I'll elaborate on them for further inspiration, take it or leave it...

(Doctor Who) Tory/Martha, wound
- if anyone needs a savior, it's the fleet, but it's easy for the right-hand-women to be swept aside in the blaze of heroism

Six/Maya, resurrection [or]
Roslin/Maya/Six, shape of future
- they thought Maya was just an ordinary girl, an innocent bystander to history (they couldn't have been more wrong)

Roslin/Six/Leoben, blood
- the Cylon faithful have an interest in the prophet (and her disciple)

Athena/Boomer, numbers [or]
Three/Three, technology
- it's like madness, knowing you're an individual yet being networked to the other copies

Starbuck/Dee/Lee/Anders, collapse
- just in case you feel up to some Quadrangle of D00m. XD

Roslin/Maya/Six, shape of future
- they thought Maya was just an ordinary girl, an innocent bystander to history (they couldn't have been more wrong)

Is all done and waiting to be read further up the LJ!

id ask for the obligatory BSG/farscape crossover (galactica/moya), but simon already nailed that one.
apart from that, im out of ideas - probably why the 4th doctor thing (capt. jack flirting with sarah jane, and getting nowhere fast!) has been lying fallow for a long time...
which reminds me - must do something with the 3 doctors (4,8,9) idea i had a while back, which involves a massive missing plot element from the new show...

I'll certainly look forward to anything like that that you do write - 4,8 and 9 sounds like an awesome combo! I'd vote for 7 in there because he's my favourite, but I think 9 is too similar to him to be needed in that combo.

THanks for posting anyway and if you do come up with anything you'd like me to write, just drop a note. Otherwise - I'll look forward to your 3 doctors story!

....PS - which plot element are you talking about?

Oooh, I'm a bit late.

BSG: Hera's first words
or Kara makes (new years) resolutions - yes, I know they don't have our holidays but something similar. :)

Love what you have written so far.

...forgot to add - story now up on the journal! :)

Does it count as a prompt if I tell you to work on your novel/thing again? Probably not. But I still want to read that.

(Sorry, I'm kind-of-celebrating with Susi right now, hence can't take the hour or so it would take me to think of a proper prompt. But I see you've been getting some even without me contributing...

BTW - the saga of the chocolate packet, part x: got a box now (from Britain, no less!), went home to fetch your address, lost the scrap of paper on the way back to my parents. And now the post office is closed again for New Year's day, of course. Grmpf.

Okay, off to see fireworks again.)

"There is a turtle in the bathtub and a parrot on the wardrobe. I have smoked all my cigarettes and the carpet is beginning to move."

(I *really* have no idea what this is nor where it came from. I'm not drunk or anything, either.)

I think I sort of do know where this came from. I read a very trippy manga yesterday, with a smoking protagonist and lots of animals in weird places.

Either way, it's about to be posted (sort of) above!

...read authorial ramblings for explainations/apologies!

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Dude! I'm bad at prompts!

Prompt, courtesy of the random brain fart department

Actually, now that I think about it...

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