wherein Liz writes prompt!fic for her sister (can you still call it that if it's original kid-lit?)

[edenfalling]

This year, because personalized gifts are nice, I gave my sister a story for her birthday. Except there's a catch: I haven't written it yet.

This is because she gets to tell me what to write. :-)

Today Vicky finally got back to me with her parameters, and now I have six months to turn them into coherent fiction with a 2000-word minimum length. Her idea and characters are pretty fun, and strike a good balance between giving me a framework and giving me freedom to be creative. I asked her some clarifying questions about a few points, and I think we're on the same page with regard to tone and general structure.

(I think, with luck, the end result might even be commercially viable? But eh, that's very much a secondary concern.)

We shall see what happens!

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In other prompt!fic news, rosaxx50, I am working on your ficlet, I swear. I've just had a hard time knocking my brain into the right narrative voice.

aishuu, I don't think I can do Peter at university, but the other ideas look promising. I'll see if any of them click with a 15_minute_ficlets word.

And of course I am working on my Betapalooza assignment. Thus far, I have a rough outline and have assigned roles to all four beta kids plus some other Homestuck characters, but I'm still sorting out some details and haven't started writing the actual story yet.

So you know, I am plinking away at stuff. :-)

Comments

[marmota_b]

Heh. That reminds me of the story my sister requested in our teens, with far less specifics... which turned out to take much longer than six months, beause it exploded to novel proportions. But I'm glad to know we're not the only ones who went this route with gifts!

[edenfalling]

I've given people stories as presents before, but in once case I just wrote a fairy-tale and gave it to my whole extended family because I was flat broke that year, and in the other cases it was more of a, "I am currently working on story A, story B, and story C: which would you like me to finish and give to you?" situation.

This time I am trying to be more tailored. *grin* (Well, and also Vicky and I have tried several times to collaborate on writing projects in the past, only to crash and burn because we got into intractable arguments over narrative structure and writing process and stuff. But we still like each other's ideas a lot, so this is my attempt to sneak around the arguments and still be collaborating with her in a way.)