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Could I try #12 with siblings, please?

 

Yay, glad to have you aboard! Your hurt/comfort prompt is 12) Bruised

lolll

 

I'm not very good at writing angst, but maybe I can try this...

I'll take number 2, parent-child.

 

Welcome to the madness! I'll bet you're better at angst writing than you think. Your hurt/comfort prompt is 2) Gun/Blaster shot

 

How can you even think of writing that? they asked.

Watch me: enemies, with number 7.

 

I literally laughed out loud when I saw your prompt. You have received 7) Buried alive

I look forward to seeing what you do with it.

 

Perfect for my healer and his family of Corellians. He will have some very angsty moments

 

I love that you were able to work in two parent-child duos in your fic! You're in the index! (I actually added your fic last week but neglected to reply in this thread. )


How is everyone else doing? Any other ideas percolating?

 

I haven't figured out an actual story yet, but for some reason (even though it doesn't literally fit my prompt of "buried alive") this is giving me vibes:

 

And here is my entry for the angst challenge bringing comfort
I got
3 romantic pairing/lovers
Your hurt/comfort prompt is 8) Blood loss
extremely angsty line: “I’ve never once held you.”

 

I so want to do this, but I have 86 assignments to mark...

*cries quietly in the corner*

 

Awesome, I've got your fic in the index!

You can still pick a number! The deadlines in this thread are more like goals anyway, and you're more than welcome to submit your fics after the deadline has passed!


With that said... I'm going to go ahead and extend the due date for our Hurt/Comfort Roulette by a few weeks, just because. So let's make it our new goal to have our stories finished by Thursday, July 13th. That's doable, right?

 

Alright, you've convinced me! I used a random number generator and got 15, so may it be generous (or not) on my soul

 

That sounds like it should count as the "Hurt" part of the roulette challenge right there.

 

Excellent! Let me know which of these five relationship types you'd like to choose from (parent-child, siblings, romantic pairing/lovers, friends, or enemies), and then I'll give you your prompt!

I had the same thought!

 

Siblings please


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Your hurt/comfort prompt is 15) Field medicine

 

Well, I've finally started writing that angsty Ezra & Sabine story that was inspired by the First and Last Lines Challenge for my pentathlon in the Fanfic Olympics and it is coming along better than I expected so far (crosses fingers, knocks on wood and throws salt over my shoulder in hopes that I didn't just jinx my progress ) It's strange to say, but I'm actually enjoying writing this story, even though the misery level is pretty high for one of my stories! Angst is still fairly new genre for me, and in a lot of ways, I feel like I did when I started writing romance: does this sound right? Does it sound like it was written by a 12 year old or a robot? Am I laying things on too thick? I don't think that I've crossed the line from angst into character torture, but my poor Ezra is going through a lot in this story. He's facing imprisonment, nefarious cloning experiments, soul-crushing Imperial officers (looking at you Thrawn) and his recurring abandonment issues. And I guess a lot of this stems from my reaction to Filoni apparently retconning the end of Rebels so that instead of Sabine coming for Ezra about 5 years after he disappeared, it seems to be closer to 10 years . I could understand 5, what with the war and everything, but 10? That's twice as long as Ezra was with the Spectres! He went through so much, finally found a family and happiness, and then gave it all up to protect them....and it takes almost 10 years for them to find him. It makes me want to smack Filoni on the nose with a rolled up newspaper. (No! Bad Dave!)

So all that being said--any tips on keeping angst from turning into gratuitous wallowing in misery? Like I said, I don't think I've crossed that line yet, but I don't want it to turn into a series of "...and then another very bad thing happened to Ezra."

 

I'll be back with an actual response to your question asap (I'm currently traveling but hopefully will have some online time later), but until then, it's fantastic to have you here, and I'm looking forward to seeing how your fic develops!

And of course, if any of our resident angstmongers want to jump in with some tips, go for it!