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?)

[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...

[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.

[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. :/

[star54kar.livejournal.com]

Whoops:P

It sounds like it worked out though:)