More fic, and a meme!

[lady_ganesh]

In celebration of my springkink fics getting done:

Ask me a question about one of my fics -- characters, plot, what happened before or after, what the writing process was like, what scenes I cut or changed, other ways the fic could have gone, relevant bits of backstory/headcanon/worldbuilding, what a certain line or scene meant or was in reference to, what various characters were doing offscreen.

And if you haven't seen them, the last two fics are both Saiukyi:

Goku and Hakkai

Hazel and Gat

Comments

[inarticulate]

The Other Side. THE OTHER SIDE ♥. Just… anything, really-- I'm curious as to how it came about. :D

[lady_ganesh]

Once upon a time, O Best Beloved, I wrote a five-part reincarnation-based Saiyuki fic, that was just Gojyo and Hakkai finding each other. And I sent it to a few people-- IIRC, tiggymalvern was on the list, and they said, 'interesting idea but needs way more fleshing out.'

And one of those five stories was the story of a widow who fell for a younger drifter coming through town. And so that story stayed in my head a long time, but it was only the past year or two I started really poking at it again. And then, at some point, as usually happens Sanzo bullied her way into it, and things got so much richer then I can't complain. Suddenly there was a whole world there, and the story really started coming together.

And I don't know if you saw me comment on it at the time, because I think it was in comments, but at one point I'd decided to work on it again and couldn't find the working file, and only managed to get it because I remembered that Gojyo had brought a chicken to the house. And I searched on 'chicken.' A WINNER IS ME.

[inarticulate]

slgn that is amazing. It's an incredibly rich story with so much there, and I love hearing how that pulls together. :D ♥

And, hee. Hooray for Gojyo's chicken!

[lady_ganesh]

Ee, thank you!

I'M SO GLAD I REMEMBERED THE CHICKEN SERIOUSLY. The one bad thing about renaming people in AUs is when you can't remember their names.