Alara Rogers' Writing Journal - November 21st, 2008

These pieces continue to be out of order. Follow the "17 things" tag for the rest of them.

This may meander a bit, and sadly, the format of the ultra-short doesn't actually allow me to show what happens *after* Q agrees to Picard's terms to join the crew. So someday I might expand on this. But the idea was, under what circumstances might Picard have actually agreed to Q's offer in "Q Who?" I think that the main reason he'd have rejected Q's offer would have been fear of Q's power corrupting them, and the idea that it was probably a test. But if he thought Q might be serious... "to learn about you is frankly provocative." I went with that, albeit in a non slash-fic way. :-)

ETA: Present tense is REALLY HARD! You wouldn't think so but I keep finding places where my tenses suggest that I was writing the thing in past rather than present.

( Seventeen Things, Thing 11 )