Guess the story meme

[fleurlb]

Borrowed from somnolentblue:

1. Pick out a sentence from one of my stories.

 

2. I'll try to guess what story it's from (and, if you want, I'll give you some backstory or DVD-commentary for the excerpt).

 

3. If I guess wrong, you get to ask me for a drabble (character, situation, prompt word, whatever).

And of course, I promise no Google-fu or fancy tricks to try to guess right. :)

Comments

[whimoffate.livejournal.com]

The best part of this meme was getting to reread some of your stuff. I might let myself reread everything this weekend. :)

Here's your sentence: "His mind is punchy, wanting to take the joke and run with it."

I look forward to your answer. :D

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

Oh geez. I think you got me...

I'm thinking it's either Nate or Eliot....so I'm going to guess a story that has them both.... the missing scene from the Bottle Job? (I can't even remember if I titled that one.)

Yeah, I'm guessing you're winning a drabble/ficlet out of this one. Please be kind with the prompt. :)

[whimoffate.livejournal.com]

Hee. I didn't think it would be that hard, but I really enjoyed the fic, so....Yeah. Um, it was Nate from "Ninety Miles to Cuba, Part 1"

As for a prompt....wow. I didn't really think I was going to stump you, so I don't have anything in mind.....

How about "swimming?" If that isn't enough of a prompt, let me know. I'll give you a character or something.

[khemlab.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! I want you to win, but don't want you to win, lol. So I'll try and be gentle:

"Hearing the low rumble of an engine, he looked up and watched the familiar Impala pull into the hotel lot."

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

Impala must = SPN and I don't have much SPN fic, so I'm going to guess Road Trip. (And I'm guessing it's where Tim is waiting in the motel room for Julie to return from her date with Sam.)

Is this correct? :)

[meghan-84.livejournal.com]

He'd always lived by the rule it was easier to get forgiveness than ask for permiion, but he'd known for weeks in this situation he'd get neither.

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that would be Tim, from the Lyla part of "I Can See the Pines Are Dancing"

I'm more certain of that than any of my other answers.

So, commentary...the idea of getting forgiveness instead of permission was something I saw in comic strips YEARS ago. Maybe have been Funky Winkerbean. May have been the one with the dentist dad who wears a vest and the teenager named Jeremy. Wherever it was, it was a truism that appealed to me.

The inspiration in general for the fic came from the AA Bondy song "The Pines Are Dancing"....such an evocative and haunting song and I loved the lyrics. It was easy to find three that stood out and relate them to a girl in Tim's life...

"The pounding of a midnight heart" - Tyra - I've always loved the misplaced (and sometimes nearly aggressive) passion that drew Tyra and Tim together even as it kept making them screw up. They will always be my favorite trainwreck.

"A match to a ball of lies" - Lyla - So much of Tim and Lyla's relationship seemed built on lies, half-truths, and wishful thinking, that this lyric really stood out to me for them.

"I can see the pines are dancing" - Julie - Sweet, a little naive, and thinking outside of the box, that's Julie and I always thought that Tim should/would be drawn to that to some extent.

[meghan-84.livejournal.com]

Damn I was hoping I'd stumped you.... on a side note... I've alway wondered what made you choose the the tight in bud line for the french volume series... That's so perfectly tim as was this fic... Another side note Fic prompts for the fic I'm going to write you?

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

That just came from reading French poetry while doing research. Originally that series was going to be a trilogy and I had 2 poems already, just needed a third. It was cheating a little, since it's not technically the same era as the first two, but I really liked it and thought it perfectly suited the situation.

You're welcome to play again if you're looking to stump me. :)

And I know I owe you prompts. I'm still thinking on it.....am notoriously bad at coming up with promots.

[khemlab.livejournal.com]

Yes! Good job. =) Now I think I should have been harder on you. ;)

attempt # 2

[meghan-84.livejournal.com]

Once it happened, nothing was ever the same.

I'm playing too know you are welcome try and stump me too

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

You can definitely play again. I don't really have any commentary on that one....except that I should really get back to working on that damn story. :)

Re: attempt # 2

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

Oh noes.....I can't even narrow down the fandom on this one. Umm. Umm. Umm.

OK, it's a little weird, a little outside my normal style. So I'm going to guess it was one of my experiment-y pieces, so either one of the second-person ones or the one with Matt after his dad died.

I'm going to guess "Before and After".

Re: attempt # 2

[meghan-84.livejournal.com]

Nope, its no regerts first paragraph...

Re: attempt # 2

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

Doh! Ok, you win. :) Prompt?

Re: attempt # 2

[meghan-84.livejournal.com]

I really wwant to knw what Julie's reaction to Tim going to prison is? Does she visit him? Write him off? Does something happen when they meet back up in dillon later? And what are coach and tami's reactions to whatever her reaction is?

BTW your mama riggins prompt has taken on a life of its own in my head!

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

Is done....http://fleurlb.livejournal.com/38447.html

Hope you enjoy it!

Re: attempt # 2

[fleurlb.livejournal.com]

Is done.... http://fleurlb.livejournal.com/38876.html

Hope you enjoy it!