writing meme

[xparrot]

Taken from pretty much everybody:

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

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"Don't go wasting your emo~tions~..."
*Why did Mamma Mia! have to be so ridiculously awesome? going around constantly singing ABBA under one's breath gets embarrassing!*

Comments

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, what to say about that one! I know the "steampunk" prompt made me flail, because while I love the genre in theory, in practice I don't write historical fiction at all...I like scifi because I can make stuff up and no one can correct me; I get hung up on getting details right. But steampunk you can only make up so much. I went with Old West mainly because writing Victorian English terrified me; at least this way they'd still have American dialects!

Most of the story is swiped from other things - I love Back to the Future 3 a lot, so, yeah, Rodney is pretty much Doc Brown. His mechanical hand is because "maimed" was another prompt - it's really a Full Metal Alchemist automail (I was first thinking he was going to have a mechanical eye, too, but changed my mind...) And Teyla being sheriff is from sheafrotherdon's Old West AU One Hundred Sixty Acres and a Stitch-And-Bitch Quilt, because it's such the perfect job for her.

Considering I wrote the story in one weekend, I did quite a bit of research for it - looked up Old West slang and the history of dirigibles, emailed my history professor father about 19th century corporate espionage (apparently Rockefeller was rumored to have dynamited his rivals, so the fic's not too far off ^^;) Truth be told, I rather love research, so now I'm thinking I really ought to write more historical fiction...!