I have seen this elsewhere, but phrased in terms of force, and you are all, I feel sure, too inherently polite and too cognizant of your own bodily safety to ever want to force me to do anything. So I will ask it more politely:
If you could urge, persuade, or ask me to write any particular thing, what would it be?
Stuart/Interregnum fantasy.
Oh wait, too late!
Then something gear-y.
Gear-y, huh? Not my usual stomping grounds. I shall ponder.
I figure you know your usual stomping grounds already.
Something about Mary Stuart that wasn’t a hagiography.
One of the short stories I don’t think I’ll ever write was going to be about her execution. (The reason I don’t think I’ll ever write it is, it has yet to present me with any particular angle of interest; it would just be, hey, here’s how she died. And that’s not particularly exciting — even for an execution as messed-up as hers.)
Please, if it’s not too much trouble.
I’d like you to write the last digit of pi.
Re: Please, if it’s not too much trouble.
9.
Prove me wrong.
A short fiction (or collection thereof) based on the collecting / loss of folklore in Ireland and the British Isles.
I refrain from participating so as not to receive a big, long-suffering sigh from you. 🙂
I feel like there might be some reverse psychology going on here, but maybe I’m reading too much into this post…
