Time for Unsent Letters
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reynardoHello, my lovely Unsent Letters Writer. I'm repeating the prompts down below, and trust in your abilities to turn them into magic.
Wellington Paranormal
It's a rough life being the Sergeant. Especially when the Tooth Fairy is in town. I'm looking for (letters) Reports to the officers (ie a notice being pinned to the noticeboard), or a letter of commendation (or warning) about some of the actions, or a couple of the broadcasts out to the officers on the beat with information about the case. Perhaps the diary entries could be his own log of the investigation.
And what *is* the Tooth Fairy up to? Are there arguments about the payout for a tooth these days? Is there a shortage of teeth for the babies what with the birth rate going up? Or has the Tooth Fairy become decayed? Your call, my dear writer. If another idea about this Paradigm of Premolars strikes you, go with it.
Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L Sayers - Gerald St George writing to his sister Winifred.
Have you got any idea how annoying younger sisters can be? Especially when your mother insists you write to her while you (and her) are at boarding school. (Or does she have a governess?) And then later, when you're at university and she's at a Swiss finishing school ...
Of course, the frustration of running into a perfect woman while you're at Uni, then finding out it's the woman your uncle is in love with so out of your reach would surely be barely hidden in a regular report to your sister. After all, you don't want her to think you're as foolish as to fall for an intelligent woman who treats you with common sense after you total your car.
I'm looking for letters from St George, spaced out over a few years, and showing both his changing relationship with his (barely mentioned) sister, his uncle, and his aunt-to-be. Feel free to go past the wedding and such, and if you want to include the JPWs, up to "A Presumption of Death" (because the poor lad doesn't show up after that).
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Tom Carrisford and Ralph Crewe
Tom and Ralph are best friends, but Tom gets a brain fever and Ralph thinks he's run off with the money. And then Ralph dies.
I would love either the (increasingly desperate) letters from Ralph to Tom, or Ralph's diary as he sees his life disintegrating, or Tom's (increasingly incoherent) unsent letters to Ralph or Tom's (increasingly weird) diary entries - or Tom's unsent letters to Ralph after Ralph dies, detailing Tom's constantly frustrated attempts to find Ralph's daughter, hoping against hope that he can write (knowing Ralph will never read it) that the child has been found.
OK, I'm almost crying writing this one. Don't hold back. I'm expecting heartache, and heartbreak.
Sense and Sensibility - Eliza Williams (Colonel Brandon's ward) to John Willoughby
I think Willoughby loved Eliza. He certainly made her think he did. She lost her mother early, never really knew her guardian, was pretty ripe to be won over by a smooth talking good looking type.
And then he leaves her.
She's literate. She's passionate. And she's lost.
I'm looking for something starting out calm, and slowly becoming more and more plaintive or passionate or ... as time goes on and the bastard isn't responding, isn't coming back, isn't acknowledging her increasingly-desperate situation.
But show me she still loves him. Or at least for a little while.
Crossover - Roger Walker from Swallows and Amazons and Maddie Broddart from Code Name Verity
Ten years after the Swallows and Amazons first met, Roger is old enough to get involved in the aeroplanes he loves. If at some time he met Maddie Broddart, she would be sure to inspire him. I'd love either letters from Roger to Maddie discussing flying stuff, or his journal entries (and hers) about each other. They'd be great friends.
Persuasion - Sophia Croft and Anne Elliot
These two would be great friends. I would love to either have a) their letters to each other, starting as "Has the second-best china always been missing a soup plate?" and "I hope you haven't been inconvenienced by the leak in the stables" and becoming close friends (with sprinkles of Sophia's completely clueless "I'm worried about my brother - oh that's right, you know him - he's getting quite meloncholy just like he did some years ago" or b) Sophia's journal entries mentioning Anne and mentioning Frederick, but completely missing their previous history. Feel free to add the reveal at the end if it calls to you.
A Game of Thrones - Jaime and Brienne
Cersei was an addiction he couldn't give up. So he gave up Brienne instead.
I would love to read the unsent letters he kept trying to write to her. I imagine that he left a trail of crumpled up letters, half-burned drafts, and multiply-crossed-out drafts on his way from Winterfell to Kings Landing.
I'd love to read them even if they tear out my heart.
Up to you whether it ends like the show did, or there's a part we don't know afterwards. I wished like crazy that these two would end up together, but I knew and the story demanded that Jaime was just not strong enough. But I'd still like to read either how he lost his soul - or how he found it again.
As to the ... er ... intensity of the relationships (if they're that kind), look, the muses need feeding. Sometimes they want passion, sometimes lust, sometimes desperate reasoning. You can hear them. Show me how they are.
Because no matter what you do, you're awesome.
Wellington Paranormal
It's a rough life being the Sergeant. Especially when the Tooth Fairy is in town. I'm looking for (letters) Reports to the officers (ie a notice being pinned to the noticeboard), or a letter of commendation (or warning) about some of the actions, or a couple of the broadcasts out to the officers on the beat with information about the case. Perhaps the diary entries could be his own log of the investigation.
And what *is* the Tooth Fairy up to? Are there arguments about the payout for a tooth these days? Is there a shortage of teeth for the babies what with the birth rate going up? Or has the Tooth Fairy become decayed? Your call, my dear writer. If another idea about this Paradigm of Premolars strikes you, go with it.
Lord Peter Wimsey by Dorothy L Sayers - Gerald St George writing to his sister Winifred.
Have you got any idea how annoying younger sisters can be? Especially when your mother insists you write to her while you (and her) are at boarding school. (Or does she have a governess?) And then later, when you're at university and she's at a Swiss finishing school ...
Of course, the frustration of running into a perfect woman while you're at Uni, then finding out it's the woman your uncle is in love with so out of your reach would surely be barely hidden in a regular report to your sister. After all, you don't want her to think you're as foolish as to fall for an intelligent woman who treats you with common sense after you total your car.
I'm looking for letters from St George, spaced out over a few years, and showing both his changing relationship with his (barely mentioned) sister, his uncle, and his aunt-to-be. Feel free to go past the wedding and such, and if you want to include the JPWs, up to "A Presumption of Death" (because the poor lad doesn't show up after that).
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett - Tom Carrisford and Ralph Crewe
Tom and Ralph are best friends, but Tom gets a brain fever and Ralph thinks he's run off with the money. And then Ralph dies.
I would love either the (increasingly desperate) letters from Ralph to Tom, or Ralph's diary as he sees his life disintegrating, or Tom's (increasingly incoherent) unsent letters to Ralph or Tom's (increasingly weird) diary entries - or Tom's unsent letters to Ralph after Ralph dies, detailing Tom's constantly frustrated attempts to find Ralph's daughter, hoping against hope that he can write (knowing Ralph will never read it) that the child has been found.
OK, I'm almost crying writing this one. Don't hold back. I'm expecting heartache, and heartbreak.
Sense and Sensibility - Eliza Williams (Colonel Brandon's ward) to John Willoughby
I think Willoughby loved Eliza. He certainly made her think he did. She lost her mother early, never really knew her guardian, was pretty ripe to be won over by a smooth talking good looking type.
And then he leaves her.
She's literate. She's passionate. And she's lost.
I'm looking for something starting out calm, and slowly becoming more and more plaintive or passionate or ... as time goes on and the bastard isn't responding, isn't coming back, isn't acknowledging her increasingly-desperate situation.
But show me she still loves him. Or at least for a little while.
Crossover - Roger Walker from Swallows and Amazons and Maddie Broddart from Code Name Verity
Ten years after the Swallows and Amazons first met, Roger is old enough to get involved in the aeroplanes he loves. If at some time he met Maddie Broddart, she would be sure to inspire him. I'd love either letters from Roger to Maddie discussing flying stuff, or his journal entries (and hers) about each other. They'd be great friends.
Persuasion - Sophia Croft and Anne Elliot
These two would be great friends. I would love to either have a) their letters to each other, starting as "Has the second-best china always been missing a soup plate?" and "I hope you haven't been inconvenienced by the leak in the stables" and becoming close friends (with sprinkles of Sophia's completely clueless "I'm worried about my brother - oh that's right, you know him - he's getting quite meloncholy just like he did some years ago" or b) Sophia's journal entries mentioning Anne and mentioning Frederick, but completely missing their previous history. Feel free to add the reveal at the end if it calls to you.
A Game of Thrones - Jaime and Brienne
Cersei was an addiction he couldn't give up. So he gave up Brienne instead.
I would love to read the unsent letters he kept trying to write to her. I imagine that he left a trail of crumpled up letters, half-burned drafts, and multiply-crossed-out drafts on his way from Winterfell to Kings Landing.
I'd love to read them even if they tear out my heart.
Up to you whether it ends like the show did, or there's a part we don't know afterwards. I wished like crazy that these two would end up together, but I knew and the story demanded that Jaime was just not strong enough. But I'd still like to read either how he lost his soul - or how he found it again.
As to the ... er ... intensity of the relationships (if they're that kind), look, the muses need feeding. Sometimes they want passion, sometimes lust, sometimes desperate reasoning. You can hear them. Show me how they are.
Because no matter what you do, you're awesome.
