O Frabjous Day! Callooh! Callay! [squees and ficlet offer]
Confession: I usually start my stories with only a vague sense of where they're going. I've got some vague arc planned out, a place I'd like to wind up, but the middle is always kind of... iffy.

With "Within a Forest Dark" things were especially sketchy. I was in the middle of planning things when all of a sudden Bello grabbed me and threw me into the story, and I had ten pages before I even knew his name. I had "Beauty and the Beast" for a loose framework, but I knew I wanted to go somewhere different with it, and I wasn't sure where. I was getting more hemmed in as I wrote, giving Bello attributes when I had no real idea how to tie them all together.

Meanwhile, in "The Color of His Eyes" (ugh, I hate that title) things have suddenly and very vehemently come together. When I started writing it I just threw together a bunch of random elements I liked without thinking about how they would connect, and now they *have,* without any conscious planning on my part.

Today the same thing happened for "Within a Forest Dark." The answer to my problem (which I won't explain for fear of giving away the story) just fell into my lap. It started out with "huh, that's interesting" and a Google search and a Wikipedia page later it was "holy shit, how fucking perfect is that?" I'm so, so excited, y'all. All of the other possibilities I had been contemplating hadn't quite fit, and this one *does.* Omg, you guys, it does it does it does.

To spread the glee, and since I feel bad for not being able to really explain what I found out that was so damn perfect, I'm offering ficlets/drabbles. I'm not sure if anyone has any interest, but if you do, I'm here. Any pairing (or gen) from any of my stories. Request away. :D