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2009-08-15 07:26 pm
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So apparently there's this meme going round where you post an excerpts from your WIPs? Well, I have about a hundred WIPs and too much time on my hands, so:

Expand'Gathering Moss: the Collected Letters of James Turner', Swallows and Amazons, implied Captain Flint/Squashy Hat )

Expanduntitled JJ/Emily, Criminal Minds, tag to 'To Hell and Back' )

Expanduntitled SG-1 fic, Road Not Taken 'verse, Lorne, Rodney (Lorne/Sam Rodney/Sam )

Expanduntitled SGA/Alias crossover, Lorne/Weiss )

Expanduntitled SGA/BSG crossover, Lorne/Racetrack )

Expanduntitled 'gateverse, Lorne/Davis )

Expanduntitled Mal/Kaylee, Firefly )

Expanduntitled BSG, Racetrack )

... I am beginning to see why I never finish anything. And also that my brain apparently thinks Evan Lorne is the little black dress of every fandom ever.
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2007-10-28 04:53 pm
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I was going to write this Sam/Cam fic, and in my head it had lots of awesome dialogue and it was going to be really really cool. So why is it that when I sat down to write it out, most of it had vanished from my mind and the bits that I could remember proved to be incredibly lame?

Oh, brain.

But Sam and Cam? Freaking adorable. Seriously.

Also, Armageddon. Joe Flanigan was pretty and told us about his escape from a great white shark. Chris Judge was pretty and told us why he's afraid of polar bears.

They talked about Stargate, too.
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2007-04-22 03:55 pm
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Writing medical stuff is horribly, horribly boring, not least because it means checking minor details every few sentences and knowing I'm probably still getting things wrong.

I want to write fluff, damn it!
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2007-04-20 09:42 pm
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I am still writing the Alex/Addison fic, 10k words and counting, and I seem to be finally getting the hang of just writing, just getting words down and saving the editing for later rather than doing both at once which usually ends in, "Well, this sucks" and "whee, delete!"

Although I do have some uneasy thoughts about how much editing this thing will need - what was going to be the main event now is not and it needs to be re-written, Alex is being far too nice, I am the queen of run-on sentences and Addie is still the queen of the land of passive aggressiva and maybe sometimes needs not to be, and I've been picking and choosing bits of canon from episodes that haven't aired here yet so I need to straighten all that out.

Like I said, run-on sentences.

But: this fic has an actual title ("Case the Promised Land", if anyone cares) and about a 70% chance of being completed to my satisfaction. And my brain is going sequel, sequel so please somebody sit on me and tell me to back away from the babyfic.

Unfortunately, I'm still not sure what it's actually about, aside from Alex and Addie (and when did I start calling fictional characters by nicknames?). I suppose that might be what the editing stage is for.
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2006-08-04 09:12 pm

tonight i am feeling for you under the weight of a strange land

I seem to have an amazing inability to write SG-1 fic. Or possibly an amazing inability to write anything at the moment, considering the two tantalizingly close to finished Mal/Kaylee fics that are the back burner because I don't like them as they are and don't have the energy or the inclination to fix them.

I'm trying to write Jack/Sam. I like Jack and Sam angsty, because they're screwed up with messed up lives, but everything I write turns out fluffy. I'm sure they have fluffy moments, but I don't want to write fluff.

And I can't write more than five sentences of Jack/Sam/Daniel before I feel compelled to delete the lot. Jack/Sam/Daniel works for me in a way most other threesomes don't - I usually go for threesomes because they're hot (Jack/Kate/Sawyer) but Jack/Sam/Daniel is hot and it works, because they're Jack and Sam and Daniel.

ExpandI don't know what the point of this post is, really. )
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2006-06-16 12:31 pm
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Don't you hate the feeling where you write a perfectly good fic in your head - but when you start typing it out you realise it's crap?

I tried to write a post-ep to last night's McLeod's Daughters and some Sam/Jack fluff. Both fics sounded good in my head when I was thinking them over at work this morning, but now? Uck. Terrible.
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2005-08-13 05:45 pm
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So, I'm working on chapter eight of Before the Dawn, which I'm tempted to start calling 'The Fic That Must Not Be Named' only that's too long to type out every time. Perhaps I could call it 'Fic Thingy'.

This chapter is... I hate this chapter. I'm really, really tempted just to skip over it and have one character telling another what happened after the event. But that would be cheating, as this chapter is supposed to be the one that makes chapter one make sense.

So, when I say "working on" I mean "staring at the screen and going nuts".

Oh well. It's only been about six million years since I last updated.

I'm going to finish this thing if it kills me.

***

Also, I'm writing Medical Investigation fic, solely because I couldn't leave the final where it ended. It has been re-written approximately four times and it still sucks. Probably the fact that I haven't seen the first part of the final isn't helping matters.

Why the hell do I try to write fic with actual plot? I don't write plot, dammit.

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Sorry for the exciting, fun, and joyous entry.
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2005-06-01 10:04 pm

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I do not need to write Medical Investigation fic. I do not need to write Connor/Natalie Medical Investigation fic.

This is bad. I don't even have plot bunnies. I just want to write it. It's that feeling where you have to write something out - make it happen. And it probably won't go away until I do.

I'm sure I must have better things to do.