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Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.
Good lord I miss writing things. I especially miss writing things people might actually want to read.
Good lord I miss writing things. I especially miss writing things people might actually want to read.
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In the criminal justice system, major and unusual crimes are handled by special divisions trained in the technique, apprehension, and prosecution of these offenses.
The truly uncategorizable crimes, those dealing with phenomena unfamiliar to the police, are dealt with by members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit, because they get all the weird internet perverts anyway so this kind of thing is probably right up their alley.
What made me want to write it:
I'd been meaning and wanting to cross over Doctor Who and SVU for the longest time, but I could never find quite the right angle for the Doctor to get involved - after all, wouldn't something supernatural go to whatever secret Bureau the FBI has to handle this sort of thing? Besides, I got so caught up in procedural details and getting all the law stuff right that I just got bogged down. And then I figured, why not go completely in the other direction? No procedure, no little details - let's break some reality boundaries and things. And so I decided to throw the Muppets in there, and from there it got a little more serious than I would have thought and...yeah.
The biggest problem I had while writing it:
Well, tonally it was kind of all over the place at first, so that was an issue, but actually the scene you mentioned was a big stumbling block for me. After all, I can kind of deal with breaking up the Stabler marriage, but originally I thought I had to restore the boundaries of reality so that the Muppet and human world would be separate again, and that meant he could never see his kids again, and while I could buy Stabler maybe cutting his losses on the marriage I can't imagine him walking out on his kids. Eventually I remembered that there are plenty of humans in Sesame Street and The Muppet Show so there was no reason their worlds had to be separate, which resolved some of the difficulty, but for a while I had no idea how to end it.
The scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage:
I had this really awesome scene in there where the Swedish Chef took down the Venusian ninjas with only his ladles and a frying pan. It was really cool and the kind of scene I always wanted to write but I just couldn't convey the action and still maintain interest.
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I so sympathize with the problems you had, it's pretty hard to describe an entire story seen through heat waves, you just run out of 'wobble/rhumba' type descriptives, you know? Don't blame you for deciding against the cheap "You're so hot!" gags... Glad you overcame your own childhood phobia of purple lava-monsters and posted it anyway!
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