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saffronhouse's LJ):
1. There is an existential crisis, or the lead character otherwise Comes To A Realization. This is also known as angst, with a resolution.
2. Love = someone you can talk to + lust + insecurity that they won't want you back. Oh, the irony.
3. There is only a 60% chance of slash in a starring role.
4. There will be dialog in which the reader is not told who is speaking, or how. You have to guess.
5. Characters are lonely, possibly isolated. At least at the beginning.
6. There is no 'meant to be,' there are choices and decisions and options. And angst.
7. Sometimes, there is no sex. But sometimes, there really really is.
8. Sometimes, there is no plot. Sometimes there is a hint of a plot, and sometimes (at least in my head) there is half a plot. But there's always angst, even in the total absence of plot.
9. Expect characters to meet each others eyes, to smile genuinely or otherwise, to kiss or otherwise have an oral fixation, and to play with each other's hands. Unless they don't.
10. Expect characters to fall for a completely different partner in the next fic. That's how it is. What?
And, for a little more self-indulgence, lines from my WIPs:
If this is Thursday, it must be Belgium.
"Be gentle, but clear; understanding and absolute about what can and can’t be done, because if you give them hope, they will take nothing else."
Teal’c disliked telephones; if one could not at least see the person one was talking to, it was difficult to believe that the slightly metallic voice in ones ear was a living breathing being.
“Um, Sam, have you been smoking something that you shouldn’t, as an Air Force officer, have been smoking?”
That night, Jack knew it was over.
Whatever, I don’t whine. I am a tough, hard as nails, take no prisoners beyotch. And Dr. ‘I’m not a shrink but I play one on the base’ Jackson says if I just repeat that to myself enough it will be true. When he’s not telling me that I whine, that is. Quack.
And SG-1 was his team. He never fled their company.
saffronhouse's LJ):1. There is an existential crisis, or the lead character otherwise Comes To A Realization. This is also known as angst, with a resolution.
2. Love = someone you can talk to + lust + insecurity that they won't want you back. Oh, the irony.
3. There is only a 60% chance of slash in a starring role.
4. There will be dialog in which the reader is not told who is speaking, or how. You have to guess.
5. Characters are lonely, possibly isolated. At least at the beginning.
6. There is no 'meant to be,' there are choices and decisions and options. And angst.
7. Sometimes, there is no sex. But sometimes, there really really is.
8. Sometimes, there is no plot. Sometimes there is a hint of a plot, and sometimes (at least in my head) there is half a plot. But there's always angst, even in the total absence of plot.
9. Expect characters to meet each others eyes, to smile genuinely or otherwise, to kiss or otherwise have an oral fixation, and to play with each other's hands. Unless they don't.
10. Expect characters to fall for a completely different partner in the next fic. That's how it is. What?
And, for a little more self-indulgence, lines from my WIPs:
If this is Thursday, it must be Belgium.
"Be gentle, but clear; understanding and absolute about what can and can’t be done, because if you give them hope, they will take nothing else."
Teal’c disliked telephones; if one could not at least see the person one was talking to, it was difficult to believe that the slightly metallic voice in ones ear was a living breathing being.
“Um, Sam, have you been smoking something that you shouldn’t, as an Air Force officer, have been smoking?”
That night, Jack knew it was over.
Whatever, I don’t whine. I am a tough, hard as nails, take no prisoners beyotch. And Dr. ‘I’m not a shrink but I play one on the base’ Jackson says if I just repeat that to myself enough it will be true. When he’s not telling me that I whine, that is. Quack.
And SG-1 was his team. He never fled their company.