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[hatman]

I haven't been much of a friend lately. Or blog community member. Or whatever. I haven't been posting, haven't been commenting, having been reading as closely as perhaps I should (though I have been reading, and did end up going to at least skip=100), haven't been responding to comments. Sorry about that. I don't really know what to do about it, but I'd like to try.

Meantime (and perhaps a help in getting the blogging ball rolling again)... I came across an interesting meme from mizkit. I wanted to pass that along. Maybe give it a go myself, though no guarantees. Could be good and fun if it works out, and I think several of you might enjoy doing it yourselves:

Give me the title of a story I’ve never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got submitted to magazines, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I’d been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Comments

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Well, Clark as a professional bodyguard wasn't much of a stretch, really. And, of course, once you think about that, Lois's "occupation" followed naturally. I mean, I didn't want to get into Whitney Houston "Bodyguard" territory (and even if Lois does have an excellent singing voice, she needed to have a more intellectually challenging career). So you take her bossy nature and add in the need for her to be a public figure (so as to require a bodyguard), and it's not so hard to come up with the idea of her being the "top banana" of a small country. (Having the country's economy driven by Sam Lane's kooky inventions was just an added bonus.)

As for Lex... I suppose I could have made more of his plot to take over Labbra Largo, but I needed to balance the threat from Lois's side with Bureau 39 on Clark's side. And to mirror that relationship with L&C's - our heroes' initial conflict and mistrust fading into romance and teamwork even as the villains' initial attempts at partnership (once they run into each other, of course) gradually dissolve into chaos and betrayal. At least, that was the idea. But I never was very good at fleshing out A-plots, truth to tell.