Writing: Accepting Requests

[beccatoria]

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.

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

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!*