Woah. Glad I checked my fest assignment email again.

[thrihyrne]

WOWZA. I've been writing a fic in my head (for a month!) for a fest, and the pairing and scenario I've been working on is for a pairing totally not listed as a request by the recipient. How on earth could I have mis-read that so dramatically??! Well, huh. Now I have a fic I could write for no real reason (which isn't all bad), and I need to look at the real pairings requested and come up with something totally different. Which may not be a bad thing; I can go a less-angstier route.

Ooops.

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[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Something similar happened to me recently. I have been writing ficlets, drabbles and double-drabbles, trying to meet the requirements for the B2MeM challenge and then one of the prompts turned into a challenging short story. After working on it for a couple of days, I suddenly had a horrible sinking feeling that I couldn't for the life of me remember what prompt it was for and that I didn't have time to salvage the situation if I was writing the wrong prompt. It turned out that I didn't mess up. I had forgotten what it was because it was simply to use a favorite quote or part of a poem (of course I had started with my poem verse) and not one of those a-feather-an-apple-a-duck-and-a-pairing-that-doesn't-at-appeal-to-me prompts. (Does it show that I really do not like writing to prompts?)

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I'm just baffled at myself because I could have sworn that this particular pairing I've been constructing in my head was one of her choices. But… totally no. And the concept for the story just won't work with the pairings she likes. At least I hadn't actually started writing yet! Now I can muse on a new type of story. Still.

::facepalm::

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Well, I would wish you luck, but you are so much better than me at this that I do not think you need it!

It is strange how one's mind can play trick though, isn't it? The reason I couldn't remember my prompt was because I frequently start stories or chapters with a quotation or a bit of verse, so it was essentially a no-prompt story for me, but more of a write-whatever-you-like story.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've had that happen, too. It's disconcerting, to say the least!

Wishing you luck at coming up with a new fic idea...

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is! The new fic idea thankfully has already come, and even a title, so I'm no longer quite as freaked out. Thank you for the positive writing vibes! :D

[kenazfiction.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that. Second year I participated in Remix:Redux, I accidentally remixed the story that my recipient had marked as her "Safe" story (i.e. DO *NOT* remix this one!). Realized my error 5000 words in, and 2 weeks before the deadline. Ooops.

I was in a complete and total panic. I do believe I cried.

That said, I ultimately put my nose to the grindstone and came up with Wildflowers and Weeds (Shakespeare's Garden remix), which I am really quite proud of. It does work out, on occasion, that these foibles actually turn out to be blessings in disguise.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

It does work out, on occasion, that these foibles actually turn out to be blessings in disguise.

I'm thinking just that! The new story is now coming with equal force and succulent creative juices, so I'm feeling very fortunate indeed. Not only that, but the new one will be a shiny new pairing I've actually never written, so that's exciting. Thanks for the link to your story! I'll check it out.

[jaiden-s.livejournal.com]

Been there, done that. :D Happens to the best of us. Hey, at least you are thinking of writing, which is more than I can say for myself. All I can think of is how much I'd like to be back home in bed. :/

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

Oh, you poor thing! I have all kinds of stories I'm working on; sadly the one that needs the most attention is M+M and I sat last night in bed, looking at this one section that now needs a major re-write as I've changed the plot, and apparently I'd sent a few of the characters down to a city and I can't figure out when I wrote that explicitly. Overhauling and adding to a story isn't nearly as much fun as writing a brand new one. No shortage of those coming up, though!

(((hugs you)))

[star54kar.livejournal.com]

Whoops:P

It sounds like it worked out though:)