December daily: Favorite unwritten story

[resonant]

woldy prompts: Favorite plotbunny that you've never written?

Man, everywhere I go I'm trailed by the ghosts of stories I haven't written! No way I can limit it to just one.

I'm sorry I never wrote the sequel to American Way where Ray K. would have to pass for Canadian. Chat log from 2002: resonant pictures Ray with his hand on the top button of Fraser's shirt: Very softly: "May I?"

I'm sorry I never wrote "True Minds," in which adult, postwar Harry and Snape become partners in Legilimency, but there's something dreadful in their shared past. I posted a fragment of it here.

I'm sorry I never wrote the follow-up to Experience in SGA; it was going to be called "Innocence" and take place in canon time. At first John thought Rodney was playing some sort of weird psychotic game with him. How else could you explain Rodney McKay -- *Rodney McKay* -- shaking his hand and calling him Major Sheppard? Rodney saying, "Think of where we are in the universe" in the same authoritative tone that John remembered him using for "Go on, take your clothes off, nothing I haven't seen before."

I need to finish what I start, because after a while stories get stiff and unworkable like dried-up play-doh.

Comments

[laurenthemself]

That play-doh analogy is most excellent.

I keep meaning to tell you I've started wishing people 'Blessed Yule and Io Saturnalia' because of Transfigurations; if it turns out that was one of Julad's lines like the Ravenclaws' flying carpet one, well, I still liked it.

[resonant]

Hee! That makes me happy. "Io Saturnalia" is what we learned in high school Latin class, so I just handed it to the Coven.

[jesse_the_k]

That RayK image makes me grin so hard!

[resonant]

I miss Due South so much sometimes.

[bliumchik]

oh god I didn't even know how desperately I wanted Innocence o_o

[resonant]

I need to stop being so slow!

[mific]

I would KILL for "Innocence". Although that'd be somewhat counterproductive to you writing the story...

[resonant]

It's sad; I've got all these backstory parts and pieces (many of which, like John's high school romantic history, would all have gotten thrown away), but very little action in real time.

[saraht]

Ah, American Way...

[resonant]

I miss Due South.

[out_there]

...after a while stories get stiff and unworkable like dried-up play-doh

So true.

[resonant]

so sad!