story ideas ("The Grace of God")

[edenfalling]

I have been afflicted by a terrible, vicious plot bunny during my time in Minnesota. I don't want to write it. I don't have time to write it. And I'm supposed to be working on Secrets and my original stuff anyway.

But it won't go away.

This is what comes of chanelling Petunia Dursley. You lay out her parents' murder by Death Eaters in one paragraph, and suddenly start to wonder what might have happened if they hadn't predeceased Lily. And you get this marvelous, terrible idea for a family reunion story, in a world where the Evanses didn't die. And where because of various other small tweaks, Lily and James didn't die either. And there are younger Dursley and Potter siblings.

And all the tangled family issues and messy backstory are alluded to during a long family reunion afternoon and evening, in which we track the perspectives of Petunia, Lily, James, Vernon, and the Evans parents (whom I have decided to name Rose and Anthony, just because). And possibly the children as well.

I don't have the time for this!

And it won't go away. And the backstory keeps weaving itself together in the back of my mind. And the damn kids already have names -- some of which I don't even like -- and personalities.

Botheration.

*firmly puts the evil story off for another several weeks minimum* I think I will be forced to write it. This is, after all, how Wearing Thin and "Sir Ron and the Green Knight" started -- as nasty, evil plot bunnies that wouldn't go off and die gracefully. But I think I will be able to shove it off for a while so long as I promise myself to write it eventually.

Inspiration is a bitca.

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[annearchy.livejournal.com]

You want to talk evil, nasty plot bunnies? My friend kaylarudbek posted this one -- Ugly duckling-turned-swan Millicent Bulstrode shows an interest *cough* in both Harry and Neville. Yes, that IS wicked. And I'm 95-98% finished with my story, which will be around 3,500 words (much more my speed than the 35,000 word behemoth Snitch story :)) Ay de mi. What amazes me more is that I think I actually managed to sneak in under the R-radar :))

[edenfalling]

Eeep. Do tell me when it's posted!