winterstar wrote his wonderful Stony fic, Upon Waking, where Tony is introduced to Steve while Steve is comatose. Tony becomes fascinated with Steve before Steve even wakes up and when he finally does, well relationships are formed and such.
I unashamedly stole the idea of the coma because I wanted to explore the angsty goodness of how Peter, El and Neal would deal with something this horrible happening to them.
The fact that it was a baseball bat added an extra level of ironically angsty goodness for Peter, who felt so much guilt over Neal being injured in the first place. And, I liked the idea that I had never come across a story where sports memorabilia was what was being forged.
The hardest scene to write in the verse. Hmmmmm. From the get go this verse has been surprising easy to write. But, I guess the hardest bit was the whole Within the Book and Volume of My Brain fic. Ironically, you and K came up with this one for me at meet up. It was tough being inside Neal's head when he was that stressed and upset. I think it was a successful fic, but it didn't flow like the others in the verse.
Which brings me to what was the easiest. I'm going to go with the original. I came up with those first sentences you quote about Peter at Neal's bedside and they were so clear and emotionally vibrant in my head and they stayed that way when I wrote them down (a rarity) and then all the rest just seemed to flow right out of me. Don't get me wrong, it was still work, but the idea for connecting the 'Christmases', the inclusion of the Dickens, and the things Neal 'dreams' about all just came and went down on the paper in a way that felt really natural.
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Date: 2016-04-10 03:28 am (UTC)I unashamedly stole the idea of the coma because I wanted to explore the angsty goodness of how Peter, El and Neal would deal with something this horrible happening to them.
The fact that it was a baseball bat added an extra level of ironically angsty goodness for Peter, who felt so much guilt over Neal being injured in the first place. And, I liked the idea that I had never come across a story where sports memorabilia was what was being forged.
The hardest scene to write in the verse. Hmmmmm. From the get go this verse has been surprising easy to write. But, I guess the hardest bit was the whole Within the Book and Volume of My Brain fic. Ironically, you and K came up with this one for me at meet up. It was tough being inside Neal's head when he was that stressed and upset. I think it was a successful fic, but it didn't flow like the others in the verse.
Which brings me to what was the easiest. I'm going to go with the original. I came up with those first sentences you quote about Peter at Neal's bedside and they were so clear and emotionally vibrant in my head and they stayed that way when I wrote them down (a rarity) and then all the rest just seemed to flow right out of me. Don't get me wrong, it was still work, but the idea for connecting the 'Christmases', the inclusion of the Dickens, and the things Neal 'dreams' about all just came and went down on the paper in a way that felt really natural.
Thanks for the awesome questions! *HUGS*