I've gotten a few requests to write stories about specific characters or plot-lines, so I thought it might help to have an official Prompt Policy. So, if you want to send me story requests:

First of all, thank you. It’s nice to know people enjoy my writing enough to want to see more of it.

Secondly, I would rather you didn’t. I have a lot of story ideas of my own already and so I am not seeking out story prompts from others.

There are three exceptions to the above point:

1) Solicited prompts - if I sign up for a theme week or a fandom gift exchange or similar event, obviously I do so with the intent of using the prompts provided.

2) The story being suggested is something I was already thinking about writing, and the query confirmed there would be an audience for it.

For example, the AO3 posting of It’ll Be A Picnic was dedicated to a reviewer there who wanted to know when and if the Creepslayerz would get involved in the Becoming The Mask timeline. I had already been thinking to myself, “Eli and Steve were really lucky in canon that they didn’t form their team a few months earlier and get in over their heads and wind up eaten by Bular. That would be a cool horror story to post around Halloween.” The two ideas combined into a short piece about Steve and Eli running into Changeling!Jim and Bular while Jim still served Gunmar.

3) The story is something short that I could potentially write as a ‘palette cleanser’ when stuck on another project without ending up with Yet Another Unfinished Ongoing Multi-Chapter Fic. I obviously make no guarantee of accepting such a prompt, but I might remember the idea and go for it at some point.

To give examples from a fandom I don’t actually write fics for, I would not accept a prompt to rewrite the entire Shrek franchise in an alternate universe where Shrek is a two-headed ogre, and the heads talking to each other speeds up or slows down various other parts of the plot, as well as creating an external portrayal of what was, in canon, Shrek's inner monologue; but I might take on a short story about the donkey-dragon babies making a ‘treasure hoard’ out of stolen cutlery and then squabbling over it until they accidentally draw attention to themselves and have to give the utensils back. (Shoot, that does sound cute and fun, I might actually write that eventually.)