Fresh stories

[icarus]

I was just writing to dkwilliams about fanfic, 'fresh' stories, and what makes a real impact.

I have a challenge for everyone who cares to take it up. There's no time limit. There's no specific subject matter. You can think about this forever, or dash it off tomorrow. We need never hear back about this challenge.

Write a story about a pairing you've never read. It could even be Harry/Draco, so long as you've never read a single Harry/Draco fanfic.

Think about it.

And let's see what happens.

Comments

[mark356.livejournal.com]

Hm, that could be an entertaining challenge. Of course, when I think about pairings, I think about pairings I like, whether they're common or not, like Harry/Cedric or Harry/Ron. You should probably give a link to a random pairing generator, or put another one on your website; if someone can think of a pairing, he or she already thinks of those two characters as something that could be a pairing, and may have already read or written it. Of course, given a moment, I can think of lots of pairings I haven't read (Harry/Moody, Hermione/Hooch, Tom/Minerva, Myrtle/Minerva, even commoner ones like Hermione/Oliver or Hermione/Minerva). All of the stories this challenge will generate will be romantic, or if not either smutty or overtly romantic, essentially about the relationship between two characters, which could get tiring, but I'd love to see some of the Blaise/Animagus!Hedwig or Tonks/Minerva that this will produce anyway; it could be a lot of fun.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I think it's a matter of using the personalities of the two to create something plausible. There can be some lively, interesting stuff as a result.

Icarus