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Amnesty: one fic
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meretiaScrambled Eggs
Prompt: Kitchen disasters
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2867
Content Warnings: Minor sexual content (they don't do anything, but the POV character really, really wants to). Also if you're easily squicked by other people being embarrassed, this might not be your cuppa.
Summary: There's this space opera/planetary romance I started for NaNoWriMo 2003 that's been frustrating me for years, because I know the general plot, but I just can't quite write the story. Whenever I try, the only thing I get done on it are scenes from the romantic subplot between the main character, Charlie, and Nicholas, the man he eventually marries (they're both basically customs agents for the trade alliance that administers the world they live on). I don't generally write romance, but every now and then I'll try picking at their story to get some practice at it. A few years ago I wrote the scene where Charlie admits to Nicholas that he fancies him, and someone I showed it to said she'd like to see what happened next. I've tried a few times to write that scene, but the boys always came out too defensively angry at each other to make any sense or the scene wasn't focused enough or things like that.
Until, of course, I have two cards with multipart long stories I'm working on for each of them. Then, of course, I have to see a prompt that doesn't fit the story for that card and decide it'd be really great for the morning a week or two after Nicholas had this talk, when Nicholas decides he needs Charlie's help in the kitchen more than they need to keep being embarrassed by and avoiding each other.
Prompt: Kitchen disasters
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2867
Content Warnings: Minor sexual content (they don't do anything, but the POV character really, really wants to). Also if you're easily squicked by other people being embarrassed, this might not be your cuppa.
Summary: There's this space opera/planetary romance I started for NaNoWriMo 2003 that's been frustrating me for years, because I know the general plot, but I just can't quite write the story. Whenever I try, the only thing I get done on it are scenes from the romantic subplot between the main character, Charlie, and Nicholas, the man he eventually marries (they're both basically customs agents for the trade alliance that administers the world they live on). I don't generally write romance, but every now and then I'll try picking at their story to get some practice at it. A few years ago I wrote the scene where Charlie admits to Nicholas that he fancies him, and someone I showed it to said she'd like to see what happened next. I've tried a few times to write that scene, but the boys always came out too defensively angry at each other to make any sense or the scene wasn't focused enough or things like that.
Until, of course, I have two cards with multipart long stories I'm working on for each of them. Then, of course, I have to see a prompt that doesn't fit the story for that card and decide it'd be really great for the morning a week or two after Nicholas had this talk, when Nicholas decides he needs Charlie's help in the kitchen more than they need to keep being embarrassed by and avoiding each other.
