Writing challenge

[vaznetti]

One of the things that can make a fic stand out for me is a clear sense of place--the level of detail that moves a locale from generic to specific. And that's something that I have a lot of trouble with: I tend to indicate place with a few sketchy details, and I don't usually set stories in places where I've spent significant amounts of time. I want to try to do something about this, so I'm offering the following. Under the cuts are (first) a list of places I've lived, or spent enough time to find them familiar, and (second) a list of fandoms I write or would write. Pick a character, pick a location, and I'll try to write you a scene.

Places
San Francisco
SE Portland, OR
Chicago (Hyde Park)
New Haven (Yale)
New York (kind of, mostly the East Village)
Oxford
Cambridge
Halifax, NS
Heathrow (Terminal Three)
Puerto Vallarta and the Costa Allegre, Mexico (from the Gringo perspective)



Fandoms I write: Alias, X-Files
Fandoms I'd like to try: 24, Highlander, BtVS, Angel, Homicide, XMen (movieverse), Stargate SG-1. If you request something in one of these, you might have to look it over to make sure I haven't gone horribly wrong somewhere.


I figure that this will give me some structured writing to do over the vacation.

Comments

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Place: Halifax

Established fandom: Alias; Character: Lauren.

Or,

Experimental fandom: SG1; Character: Teal'c.

[vaznetti]

Do they ever let Teal'c out? (I mean, of course they do, but getting Teal'c to Halifax might be a challenge.)

[anenko.livejournal.com]

Do they ever let Teal'c out? (I mean, of course they do, but getting Teal'c to Halifax might be a challenge.)

No, I don't think they actually do let Teal'c out by himself (because after 8 years on Earth, *obviously* he still can't manage a day out without OMG! Exposing the Stargate!). Therein the challenge.

Although, I would be more than happy with option 1, dealing with Lauren (who I miss dreadfully).

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, lovely-- and, coincidentally, something I've been toying with as well...but you'll see very soon, if possibly post-Exam.

I'd love San Francisco & Alias; alternatively, Oxford & BtVS. I only remember the co-op, Jesus College, and the way to and fro well, but hey...

[vaznetti]

You need to name a character, or two, I guess--I have absolutely no capacity for independant thought at the moment. Please?

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Know the feeling.

Alias: Sydney and Sloane-- or Sydney and Will because I love him and miss him so much.

Buffy: Giles and/or Buffy and/or Spike.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

because I'm aiding and abetting more HLOTS fic in any way I can. . . Mike Kellerman in Mexico.

[vaznetti]

Ooh. Too bad I don't know Baja well, because I'd send him on the annual cruise down to Cabo.

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

Place: Cambridge, because I was actually there once.

Fandom: BtVS &/or Angel

[vaznetti]

What character?

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

Whoops *blush*

Character: Willow. :)

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's irresistable: Heathrow, Term 3. Any fandom, any character. Great idea.

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

And I do mean irresistible, and I did mean "There is no Arvin without Rambaldi." I have very little cognitive function left.

[vaznetti]

You really have to give me a character--otherwise I'll be incapable. As I wrote in a comment above, independent thought it a real difficulty for me at the moment.

I thought it was without; I make e/a/i spelling errors all the time.

[rez-lo.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'd love a Wesley piece. You could throw in Arvin if the notion suited.

(And I'll save you a DVD, for sure.)

[malograntum.livejournal.com]

So many possibilities!

Okay. Portland, Highlander, Methos. Or: San Francisco, Homicide, anybody. Or: Heathrow, X-Files, anybody. Or: Puerto Vallarta, Stargate, Daniel.

Today is not one of my decisive days.

[vaznetti]

Oh! Methos in Portland! Beer! I can do that. (I can make Methos teach Hum 110, because I am pretty much that evil.)

[malograntum.livejournal.com]

Glee!

[rhi]

(I can make Methos teach Hum 110, because I am pretty much that evil.)

I am *so* looking forward to this!! (Hmm. I need to reset my icons; beej made me a Greek Methos icon that would have been perfect here. I'll try to GIP this PM.)

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

Dude, you know I gotta see New Haven!!

Krycek at Yale. Oh GOD, yes.

[spican.livejournal.com]

I second this request. :)

And you're probably getting more suggestions than you'll have time to write, but I'll still throw in a request for Marita Covarrubias in Mexico.

[muridae-x.livejournal.com]

Thirded. :-)

Though I'd go for WMM at Heathrow Terminal 3 too. He had to have spent a fair bit of time commuting across the Atlantic and back.

[auburnnothenna.livejournal.com]

Irresistible.

Anna Espinosa, Heathrow Term 3. Anything.

If you can think of a scenario. I don't know how others can just cook something up from a couple of 'include this and this and don't put this in the story' lists. My brain locks up and crashes.

[vaznetti]

If it's just a scene, and doesn't require much plot, I can usually pull something together. Too much detail makes it impossible, but a person and a place is reasonable, if I get an image or a line to kick me off.

[rhi]

Mulder at Oxford? Or Krycek prowling his acquaintances at Oxford? 'Cause, well, canon, the first, and useful either way?

[vaznetti]

You know, I've thought again and again of writing Mulder-at-Oxford, and I always come up blank. Plus, I've settled into a kind of distaste for the character. And I'm about to send Krycek off to New Haven. But I'll think about it.

[k2daisy.livejournal.com]

And I'm about to send Krycek off to New Haven.

YAY!!!!!!

[rhi]

::g:: No problem. I'm still threatening to write early Mulder at Oxford because of an OC of mine I need to weave in, is all. Looking forward to whatever you write, though!

[vaznetti]

And you know I'm happy to read a draft of a Mulder-in-Oxford story for you, to check the details. I just can't see writing one myself.

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

I still owe you a crossover Due South/Halifax/Buffy story...

[vaznetti]

That sounds like a really creepy threesome...

[eretria.livejournal.com]

Because, really, honestly: How can you resist this? Vaznetti-fic? *rubs hands*

a) Because it's a given:

Heathrow (Terminal Three) : Krycek

And / Or:
b)
Puerto Vallarta and the Costa Allegre, Mexico (from the Gringo perspective): Wolverine (with possible leaning toward/ mentioning of Rogue) Let's see how the grumpy one deals with something that's not Canadian winter. How he deals with the ocean.

[vaznetti]

Ooh. I'm going for the latter choice, I think. (My parents' town is full of Canadians trying to get away from the winter, so this will be pretty straightforward to set up.)

[psychme.livejournal.com]

Here via friendsfriends, and if you're still open to requests, I would love:

Place: Puerto Vallarta and the Costa Allegre, Mexico
Fandom: Alias
Character: Irina

Thanks very much!

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

BTVS/ATS, Wesley, Giles, Spike, or any combination thereof, at Heathrow (Terminal 3)