There Is A Seperate List Of Stories I Am Writing (but it's much shorter)

Five Stories I Wish I Were Writing

1. The one where Booster is pregnant with Ted's post-humous love child because of science! I know I hate mpreg. Shut up.
2. The one that gets into the not nearly adequately explored area of Booster's future immune system and why our not-serious diseases are bad news for someone who has never been exposed. With bonus cuddling and worried!Ted
3. The one where Booster utterly fails to deliver Ted's eulogy. Aaaaaaaangst. I do not know how this would fit into continuity, though.
4. The one set during Booster's first solo book, right after he joins the Justice League, where Trixie and Michelle try to figure out who this mysterious girl is that Booster so clearly has a crush on (hint: it's Ted).
5. The one that would be an experimental piece moving backwards from Tony's suicide to Steve's death, because I love stories about the inevitability of fate even if I think it's bullshit. On hold until we know what the hell is going to happen to Tony.

I got through all the workshop comments on the Jamie story, and I am very relieved that all of them seem to focus on the same basic flaws as needing to be fixed, specifically that Maura and Fox aren't fleshed out enough, that the break-up goes too quickly and the ending is to abrupt and anvilicious. It's cool - it means I basically need to rework only three or four scenes, and I already knew I was going to rewrite the ending because it is HORRENDOUS OMG I HATE IT. I am also going to have to make Jamie's attraction to Fox a little more explicit and build that relationship up a bit more.

However, I am going to completely ignore the people who thought Jamie going from dating Maura to sleeping with Fox was too weird and that he needed to have more angst and internal conflict over his gay feelings, because...well, that just doesn't interest me at all. I'm not trying to write a realistic coming-out story; I'm trying to write a story about a guy who is, despite his better judgment, attracted to someone he knows he shouldn't be and gets into trouble because of it. Fox is a guy mostly because I like guys kissing.

I am immensely delighted that not one, but two people mentioned that they saw echoes of Neverwhere in my story. Because a) I did actually draw a lot of influence from it, and b) I LOVE THAT BOOK SO MUCH. And they seemed to mean it in a complimentary way, not an 'you know you're just ripping off Gaiman' way. So yay for that.
Between my fics, my short story, and my lit paper, this is going to be a very writer-ly week. Oooooh boy.

A Fight We've Had Before

Crossposted to boostle : this was my fiction exercise from last week. We were working on dialogue - how to make it believable and natural, and how to add subtext so you can reveal plot with exposition-dumping. Premise was: write about two characters who are arguing about chores, but actually breaking up. I'm the only comics geek in the class, so I figured I could get away with writing Booster/Ted hijinks. Set sometime suring the JLI - I guess around when Booster left to form the Conglomerate?

 

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I choose to assume this ends with make-up sex :D

For our writing exercise today I wrote a very messy but hopefully interesting story about the first time I visited my father in jail. Will maybe post in a few days, I don't know, it needs a lot of work. Am now going back to not doing what I should be doing, which is any number of th