I have questions!

[lizardbeth]

hrm. so I have this porny ficlet (Summoning, ths Sam/Lee, Dark Magic AU). I wrote it for the sexytiems of it, and now it's kind of blossoming into this full story in my brain. however, the ficlet is basically the climax (hee, climax. Literally AND um, literarily.) all the rest of the story would be the set up and resolution after that ficlet, and feature a third party (Kara). SO. Wise flist:

Do I leave the ficlet as is, write a prequel and a sequel and then make them into a short trilogy?
Do I write one story incorporting the ficlet again?
Do I write the story and skim over the ficlet, referencing it in notes someplace?

What say you?

Comments

[roeskva]

Do you think it can be written so the prequel/sequel can be read on their own? If they can, then I would say make it into a short trilogy.

[wishflsinfl.livejournal.com]

Yes! :D

Oh, we're supposed to choose? The idea of one story incorporating the ficlet would be my vote. Every story needs a climax.

I just had a bingo drabble morph into a longer idea. As I've worked on the longer story, the drabble has gotten chopped up into pieces so I still have all of the sentences but they're no longer together, if that makes sense.

[sabaceanbabe.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of leaning toward a trilogy...

can i have mostly-a but kinda-b?

[vorblessing.livejournal.com]

have you read poe's short "the facts in the case of m. valdemar"? it'll take just half an hour--it's SO worth it--and i got the exact same thrill of horror, but MORE, reading this ficlet, because it could go on and on and what is happening to valdemar's body is what's happening to lee's soul and....
sorry. i am so excited you want to write more of this. are you imagining--if you wrote a trilogy--one of those things where you begin with what you have already written and show how you got from halcyon to here in a single prequel, spend a central remix (if that's the word that i want) viewing the same events from another (perhaps unreliable) POV, and then expand on the consequences in a sequel? because i could see that being non-epic but totally awesome.
in my imagination, leoben is the necromancer who helped lee make his deal with the cylon devil (who should totally have his own song, a la futurama). the possibilities for kara in this maybe-verse are just so endlessly twisted. best luck finding your way to writing it!