QAF "What If" Challenge Fic

This is my entry for qaf_challenges's What If challenge. I think this challenge had the best group of stories yet so please check them out.

Title: Sweetness Follows
Fandom/Pairing: QAF Brian/Justin
Timeline: Continuation of 510
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None
What If: What if Michael hadn’t been seriously injured in the bombing and after retuning to Babylon, Brian took Justin back to the loft.
Author’s Notes: Huge thanks to flashfly for being a wonderful beta and friend. Title is taken from the REM song of the same name.
Disclaimer: I don't own QAF or any of it's characters. This story is written for fun and no profit is being made from it.

( Sweetness Follows )

Lit & Crit

So with the qaf_challenges authors being revealed today, I've spent a lot of time responding to feedback and getting responses to feedback I've left. First of all I have to say how nice it is to have feedback to respond to. But I was thinking about how I respond to feedback (or how I want to but restrain myself from) and how I leave feedback when I have time. I realized what I am trying to do is have a conversation. Apparently I miss my college English classes more than I realized and have been using feedback as a replacement.

There are certain things that interest me in my own writing, but more in the stories I enjoy. I think I use feedback as a roundabout way of asking and answering these questions. Where does the idea for a story start-with a phrase, a scene, a sound? Is there an end you are trying to reach, a problem you want to solve, a mood you want to make your reader feel? When you are writing is it a story you hear or feel or see? How close to your original idea was the final story, and when do you make the changes? Does the story surprise you while you are writing? Well you get the idea.

So tell me the story of one of your stories. Answer any of the questions I asked or just tell what you think about when you remember writing it. If you can give me a link in case I somehow missed it.

Or ask me about one of my own stories. Including "What were you thinking?" I promise to answer.