The Story I've Never Written Meme

[verbal_kint]

As some of you may know BECAUSE I REALLY LIKE TO COMPLAIN, I'm having a bit of a tough time writing...anything (but fricken poetry) as of late. Therefore, I'm brutally stealing this meme from topaz_eyes to see if I can get any sort of ideas...because ideas lead to...other things! Yay?

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 posted, 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.

Feel free to try any fandom you have reason to think I know, but if I don't at all know the fandom I'll have to say so.


Also, as this year gets more and more stressful, I'm guessing I'll be on lj less and less. But, if you want to keep in contact with me for some odd reason, you can friend me on Facebook.

I'm actually much more fun on Facebook. Not sure why that is, really.

Comments

[heledren.livejournal.com]

I just loved your House story "Well Worth the Drug Deal". Wilson was hilarious! And the best part was the look on Cuddy's face when she caught him at it.

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

Oh, you caught me! What can I say, I couldn't resist the idea of Wilson liking speed so much after "Resignation" that he'd try buying some on the street to prevent House from catching him. Of course, I just had to turn the tables by letting Cuddy catch him.

Funny, I was going to add a scene with Wilson standing in front of a mirror practicing his drug-buying lingo, but I didn't want to bog the story down.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

You know, I'm not usually a fan of any story where it's House that gets hurt (heh) but your fic The White Feather was just amazing. The part where Wilson brought House's old lacrosse stick that Blythe had kept all those years, and House didn't remember it? OMG I BAWLED!!!

It was so sad. But so beautiful. And I'm SO GLAD it had a happy ending.

I'm better at lying than writing, lol

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

It's weird. This came about while I was watching Forrest Gump (that part at the grave gets me every time), and it was the "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both" that inspired this story. I mean, I've always been a sucker for AUs, but I never thought I was much for actually writing them. Then I thought, "Hey, what if instead of an infarction in his thigh, he had a stroke?" The rest, as they say...

The research, I must say, was the hardest part. Memory loss is pretty dern complex. However, the emotions really flowed out of me quite effortlessly. I knew I wanted it to end with House remembering how to play an easy piano tune, but I didn't know how it was going to pan out until Wilson made the connection between unexpected recoveries and "Pop Goes the Weasel."

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn, I can't remember the name of it now, but the one where Wilson apologizes and means it, but House blows the whole thing off because... well, he's House, and then it's angsty for a while but eventually it turns out happily. You treated House's self-loathing -- really, self-doubt -- with honesty but didn't turn him into an emo wimp, and you cut Wilson some well-deserved slack for not being able to follow all the twists in House's thinking. And then on top of all that, a happy ending! I'm a sucker for those. : )

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

Could you perchance be thinking of The One Where Wilson Apologizes and Means It? Yeah, that's a personal favorite of mine. It started out as a sort of cracky one-shot, but it obviously had a mind of its own. :)

It was hard to logistically set up the scene where Wilson's rehearsing for a play and says, "I love you," if only because I wasn't sure my readers (or House) would buy it, but when House came out and said "I love you, too," resulting in the huge debacle leading up to the apology, I knew I had something special going.

Then I threw in the fight over the hooker, just because. ;)

[2801rosie.livejournal.com]

I sent you a friend request on face book

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

I accepted. :)

[2801rosie.livejournal.com]

I adored your fic How House and Wilson Kicked Cuddy Out of Their Lives With One Night Of Debauchery. She so thought it was going to end good but House and wilson really took her for a ride, literally AND figuratively!!!

MIGHT BE GOING TO HELL FOR THIS ONE

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

Well, to tell you the truth, Rosie, this fic was a little self-challenge to see how many times I could incorporate the word "vagina" into a insult. This is why they start out insinuating that Cuddy has a very smelly/sandy vagina. They then moved onto to such phrases as "STFUVB" or "Shut the fuck up, vagina bitch."

And when that didn't work, they raped her.

Good thing they weren't too tired though, eh? ;)

Re: MIGHT BE GOING TO HELL FOR THIS ONE

[2801rosie.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
OMG that is so funny!!!!
STFUVB LOLOLOLOLOL
I have to use that on someone!!!

[perspi.livejournal.com]

I have to say my favorite must be The One Where House Snorts Pixie Sticks. Because the image of House with blue snot NEVER GETS OLD. And then WILSON. WITH PINK OUT HIS LEFT NOSTRIL AND PURPLE OUT HIS RIGHT--OMG SO WRONG BUT YET SO AWESOME.

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

I must confess, this was based on life-experience. As was King's Cup with soy sauce and the threesome with the random Pirate Stripper from "Both Sides Now."

But Wilson crushing up Nerds and putting one color into each nostril? That was all him.

LOL, THIS WAS FUN

[lightlikewater.livejournal.com]

Okay wait, I suck at remembering. But didn't you write a great one called "Rag and Bone"? Because I totally loved that scene where House and Wilson went dumpster diving....

Re: LOL, THIS WAS FUN

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yes! If memory serves, that was during my "experimenting with mysticism" phase, where everything related to witchcraft in my book. I think I originally intended it to go along with Perspi's "No Little Charity," but decided against it when I got my senses back. Haha, Cameron may act like a witch sometimes, but she's as wartless as they come.

Dumpster diving for uneaten cupcakes and a "Hi, My Name is Eddie" nametag seems exactly like the sort of thing Evil Nurse Brenda would make the boys do. But they're revenge? Well, I'm particularly proud of that one. I think our nurse still thinks that Chinchilla is Dr. Foreman!

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I loved the scene in "We All Live in a Yellow Submarine" where House gets drunk at the party and tries to juggle a cake and a dead octopus.

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

What can I say, I just loved the image of a drunken Wilson demanding calamari and House not quite giving him what he wants.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

hehe.
I hope I don't lose contact with you but I don't really have anything to do with facebook for reasons I don't want to get into.

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

So I'm late to this party, but it took me a while to remember the title of the thing: The Star-Lite Drive In.

It's one of the coolest things I've seen, because your love and knowledge of movies dovetails with Wilson's, making it feel really authentic. I love how House pulls small bits of plot and of various characters from the movies Wilson "makes" him watch, and uses those things as mental diversions to get him through the dreariest and most painful moments of his day. It's sad, and touching, and tremendous fun to inhabit his thoughts as he shifts from spy, to wounded soldier, to film-noir antihero who never gets the girl.

The notion of him projecting all these mental images onto the blank hospital walls, or the ceiling of his bedroom, creating his very own Drive-In like the one he went to once as a kid -- it's just brilliant.

Crap, now I actually want to write it

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. A personal favorite of mine, for obvious reasons. House and Wilson deal with a pretty brutal reality from day to day, and I think the fact that Wilson hides in his love of movies while House gallantly tries to face it (though he often fails) says a lot about their characters. Wilson wanting to share the hiding place with House seemed right, though not as right as House secretly falling in love with the idea--first convincing himself it's hypocrisy and then un-convincing himself at the end when he rewinds the last movie and begins to watch it again. Of course, I set it in coma guy's room and made the movies of choice completely brutalistic, to avoid as much cheesiness as possible. I think that's why the idea of them watching Shawshank Redemption together at the end works so well.

Re: Crap, now I actually want to write it

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

*beams*

Forgive me, but I was hoping you might. I'm one of the few people who doesn't seem to be approaching this meme as an opportunity for cracktastic lunacy (although I'm having a lot of fun watching most other folks do that); I've been trying to think of things that each person might really write.

You could do this, and you could do it very well.

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

Oh you! :)

Nah, but srsly, I really do want to write this when I get the chance. Haha, I've been submitting a mixture of serious/cracky ones to my flist. Heledren gave me a good one too--Wilson likes speed so much he's compelled to do a drug buy, haha. Doubt I'd ever write it, but still...Wilson on speed FTW.

*whines* You should do the meme, Mare!

[blackmare-9.livejournal.com]

I made the meme fun for myself by restricting my title choices. Each one (I've done one for Deelaundry, Perspi, Nightdog, Hannahorlove, and you) is the title of a piece of art I've made.

I've thought of doing it but I am an utter failure at writing to prompts. Fail fail FAIL. Unless of course the prompt is someone else's fic, in which case, sure!

ETA that I have now left a never-written story for Joe Pike Junior, too.

And I've probably asked this before, but have you ever seen True Stories? No, not True Lies, the Arnie flick. True Stories, David Byrne's quiet little absurdist semi-musical from 1988.

I don't know if you'd like it or not; it's one of those movies people either totally get, and find hilarious, or totally don't get, and fall asleep. One thing I will say: I am convinced that whoever created Napolean Dynamite had seen True Stories. Multiple times.

[jonne17.livejournal.com]

This is the best meme EVER. And I hate Facebook but I friended you anyway, because I don't want to lose contact.

[verbal-kint10.livejournal.com]

Haha, I appreciate the sacrifice. :) Promise I won't bug you too much.

[joe-pike-junior.livejournal.com]

Meditations on a Blockbuster Card just rocked my socks off.* It started so simply, with House finding Wilson's Blockbuster card in a pair of his trousers. It was part psychological detective story (as the best Housefics are), part friendship fic, and part journey into House's past experiences. There was a liberal sprinkling of biting wit in there, too, which is always enjoyable.

Now, my favourite parts: House's horror at discovering Wilson's list of borrowed movies (especially his horror at The African Queen, Beaches, and the porn titles). His subtle evaluation of Wilson's Hitchcock knowledge was very amusing. Of course you broke my heart when Wilson knocked on House's door post-infarction with a bottle of Vicodin and a copy of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

*I've heard Blockbuster doesn't have such a good rap over there. Our local video shop was a Blockbuster until it came under new management. I borrowed many a movie there, and I never found a fault with them.

[heledren.livejournal.com]

I'm stealing this idea, so maybe I can get a kick-start on some imagination! Hope you don't mind. :)