Cliches are my Kryptonite

[rivkat]

I was looking at morgandawn’s fan fiction tropes and my first thought was, well, I haven’t done all of them. Like, I haven’t done amnesia. And then I thought: no, actually. Twice is almost exactly like never, right? I’m pretty sure I never had Mulder & Scully bake cookies, though they did do home maintenance (gotta patch those bullet holes somehow). And now that I think about it, I did have Clark bake cookies for Lex. He was bodyswapped with Lex at the time. Is that a Double Fandom Word Score?

Anyway, I could still use some prompts for Eight Crazy Nights, getting closer than ever. If you want to suggest cliches, I’m obviously game. And, um, if someone wanted to beta an XF story, I wouldn’t say no. Fair warning: this story is mostly so old that the filename is in all caps, because I apparently began it on a computer that didn’t even use Windows. But by God I was asked for a sequel to Deny Nothing and there it was on my computer, so I’m going to give it the college (or, more accurately, law school) try.

Comments

[cryptoxin.livejournal.com]

I stayed up way too late last night to read Deny Nothing, and it was terrific fun. I only watched XF sporadically, and I don't remember if I ever saw any Krycek episodes, but I got the distinct impression that you must have had a blast writing his POV, especially in the early odd couple/"buddy cop" sections.

You ask at the end of the story: "let me know whether you think M&S were doing the nasty."

I could go either way, but I'm going to say no based vaguely on the scene in the van after the rescue. Unless Alex was wrong and they did have sex while he was watching Mulder's apartment -- but I don't think that Scully would have left in that instance.

Now I'm wondering whether you'll leave the question open in the sequel or resolve it. Either way, I'll look forward to it!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of things in that story I would never do again, but I'm quite pleased that it didn't make you back away in horror! I was experimenting with loosening the stops, and in some ways it definitely worked. I think of it as a transitional story, getting used to writing without a partner again, trying to make use of the many lessons she taught me. (Most especially: blow the budget! A big kaboom never hurt a story!)

I agree with you, by the way, and the sequel is shaped by that belief.