fanfic for a late night

[minxy]

People don't post late around here. I mention this because I am, in fact, on the leftern US Coasts and apparently, much of my flist is East of me. Possibly across the pond, even. How come none of my Aussie or Kiwi flisters (are there any Kiwis?) post at night? Hrm? A little p0rn would not go amiss, is all I'm saying.

I'm not getting much done on my tealc_ficathon piece, although we're a thousandish words in. Trouble is, I think it's going to take a while to say what I want to say, and therefore? I procrastinate.

Faaaaaaannnnnnfiiiiiiiccccccccc. It's the new brains.

princessofg has me jonesing for first time stories (she has another here called A Date, But No Flowers if you just can't get enough Jack and Daniel first time smut. Yum)

Then I had to move into SGA, because they are just hitting their stride with the smut, they are.

Reread helenish's Your Inevitable Unhappy Ending, which I can't believe I haven't recc'd before (but if I really haven't, I was remiss, this is excellent) because John Not Saying what he means is possibly the most heartbreaking thing ever, but Rodney is a genius, so it's fantastic when he figures out what's going on. NC-17 (spoiler: it's a great ending.)

Also read the very spiffy Like a Long, Slow Nervous Breakdown by cesperanza, which is an amazing compatible f*ckbuddies under stress turning into partners who can't be without each other, and as a result is an amazingly unexpected first time fic. John/Rodney, NC-17

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[cofax7]

Hey! not chopped liver here!

(and I'm off to bed, naturally)

oh no, not chopped meat of any kind!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

Oh wow, you posted several times tonight. *fangrrls*

We'll have to start throwing parties to increase our numbers....

[dustandroses.livejournal.com]

Know what you mean...I'm not getting anywhere on my Teal'cathon piece...sigh. I'm gonna watch Season 9 again...that'll get me in the mood - I hope. Instead, I've been working on Rebecca's fic (http://community.livejournal.com/nciskink/3051.html) - but "Wednesday" is turning out to be a bitch of a day. So basically, I lose which ever way I turn...

Thanks so much for suggesting "A Date, But No Flowers." What a sweet little first time fic. First Times are my favorite fic of all. They always make me happy. I'm pretty sure that's why I write very few "established relationship" fic, myself. I hadn't really noticed it, but I had someone bring it up to me, and looking back, she was right. I almost always write first times.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

I'm not getting much done on my tealc_ficathon piece, although we're a thousandish words in. Trouble is, I think it's going to take a while to say what I want to say, and therefore? I procrastinate.

Eep. The ficathon. I don't know how many words, but I'm on page 12 and I'm nowhere near having much of anything done. I wrote about ten of the pages in the last three days when I realized I don't have to write this one in order. "Yay, I can skip to this part I see clearly and maybe that'll help me figure out what I want to do earlier."

Maybe that'll help you. Write the parts compelling you now, and maybe it'll inspire the rest...at least that's what I'm hoping happens with me(I do have an outline).

How the heck can people print WIP? I can't stand being limited by writing things consecutively.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_minxy_/]

T'was sweet, wasn't it? It's so nice to have a new author so excited about those boys! I've loved going through her stuff. Hope she keeps writing.

I love first times too. I was glancing through the Jack/Daniel ficathon signups and it would appear that we aren't the only ones. Lots of requests for first time fic there.

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I think I'm held up because I'm not sure of the ending, so it's going to be very meandering if I don't have a point to get to.

I *always* writing in order, first word to last. Almost always know everything that's going to happen and more or less how, it's just a question of describing what I see in my head writing it down, pulling forward the things I think are interesting and ignoring the rest.

But I can't post WIPs, because the editing back and forth with my beta is almost my favorite part, that's when the fic goes from 'what the hell did I just write?' to 'hey, this actually isn't bad', in my mind.

Later tonight, later tonight. I'm making a date with Teal'c. *pencils it in*

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Almost always know everything that's going to happen and more or less how, it's just a question of describing what I see in my head writing it down, pulling forward the things I think are interesting and ignoring the rest.

Right, but don't you see some scenes "clearer than others?

My main experiences with betaing (both as writer and beta) have been with completed stories. I've done some discussions with how should a fic go both in the abstract and by reading a WIP. Is that not how it's done? I've recently read comments by people talking about sending things to beta daily or weekly as they go.

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If I'm really stuck, I'll discuss with beta as I go, but I feel terribly about it. Lazy. Though sometimes I just need a sounding board, like with the Sam/Daniel one where it wasn't going anywhere near where I thought it would and I was perplexed; took chatting out the new direction to get me on board with it.

I don't tend to write big long plotty things, it's much more psychological stuff, so maybe one or two scenes, a few beats that need to happen, ideas of what their thought processes would be, how they would move and act and react.

I'm missing a scene about two down from where I am now in the Teal'c fic, and I'm shady on the ending as a result. Apparently I can't do anything until I figure that part out. It's like the Farside comic where the scientists are doing a proof on the blackboard and a goes to b goes to 'and then a miracle happens' goes to z. Goes against my basic programming as a scientist. *g*

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Though sometimes I just need a sounding board, like with the Sam/Daniel one where it wasn't going anywhere near where I thought it would and I was perplexed; took chatting out the new direction to get me on board with it.

Right, if I'm really stuck on things, it helps to talk it out.

I'm missing a scene about two down from where I am now in the Teal'c fic, and I'm shady on the ending as a result. Apparently I can't do anything until I figure that part out.

What a coincidence. I have that kind of a to b to q thing in my teal'c fic too (though the ending is clear...if I end it there, or end it later, heh). That's what was stopping me, I wasn't sure how that part would work, then threw up my hands and wrote the part I knew. It's giving me ideas for the missing part. :-)

Then again, I'm an English major/business minor person. Scientific leaps of logic don't bug me as much. ;-)

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Hi minxy!

I've been mulling the advantages/disadvantages of writing styles of writing in order versus writing out of order since we started discussing it here.

If you don't mind, I'd like to bring it up as a topic of discussion over at sg_workshop. I know katie_m wrote something about the whole writing process a while back, but if minnow1212 and YOU say it's okay, I'd like to explore it more. :-)

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Sure! Go for it! I'm a member there and I'll look forward to seeing that discussion.