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writing meme
Taken from pretty much everybody:
Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.
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"Don't go wasting your emo~tions~..."
*Why did Mamma Mia! have to be so ridiculously awesome? going around constantly singing ABBA under one's breath gets embarrassing!*
Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.
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"Don't go wasting your emo~tions~..."
*Why did Mamma Mia! have to be so ridiculously awesome? going around constantly singing ABBA under one's breath gets embarrassing!*
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The main thing I learned, and the major problem I had writing the story, was that I know pretty much nothing about how actual police procedure works. This didn't bother me back when I was writing for X-files and Sentinel, but I've gotten more hung up on realism, and I was ending up researching warrants and search procedures and things trying to figure out how to compose the mystery. The irony is, of course, that the writers of Psych don't give a fig about most of that stuff, and it doesn't bother me when watching, but when writing it, I get weirdly concerned about getting it wrong!
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Most of the story is swiped from other things - I love Back to the Future 3 a lot, so, yeah, Rodney is pretty much Doc Brown. His mechanical hand is because "maimed" was another prompt - it's really a Full Metal Alchemist automail (I was first thinking he was going to have a mechanical eye, too, but changed my mind...) And Teyla being sheriff is from
Considering I wrote the story in one weekend, I did quite a bit of research for it - looked up Old West slang and the history of dirigibles, emailed my history professor father about 19th century corporate espionage (apparently Rockefeller was rumored to have dynamited his rivals, so the fic's not too far off ^^;) Truth be told, I rather love research, so now I'm thinking I really ought to write more historical fiction...!
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The most that didn't get into the story proper was about the Challidan people (their name, like most of the words in the story, is a bastardization of the Latin "calliditas": "skill, craftiness, cunning," according to my dictionaries). The story has some mention of their caste system ("dux" is Latin for leader, "vas" is "vessel") but a lot of details didn't make it in, such as that the ducis pay the greatest price for their power - after they serve for a couple decades, they sit in the Sedes and give up everything, burning out their minds so all they've learned can be passed on to their successor. The Challidas are antagonists in the story, but I don't think of them as bad guys; really I think they've hit on a clever way to preserve their society in the face of Wraith predation. (A lot of John's thoughts in the fic could have the disclaimer, "The views expressed by the POV character do not necessarily reflect the author's.")
I spent quite a bit of time while writing the story wondering what I'd do in the Chair, what I'd give up and what I'd go for. I very well might do it, were I offered the chance; getting fluency in Japanese would be worth a lot to me...
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*drops disturbing ABBA link*
*runs off*
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"Breaking Up..." was named after the fact; I went back and made sure the three cliches were there, so the title would work. I remain convinced John did tell Rodney about the Last Man future; it's the only way Rodney's sudden feelings make sense to me.
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I actually have about 900 words of a followup to "GoC" - not really a sequel, just a side story from John's POV, covering the three days before the final scene, when he got rescued and came back to find Rodney in the coma. It wasn't completed on account of utter lack of plot - really it was just an excuse for me to write Rodney in a coma and bedside vigils (yay vigils!) It did include this exchange:
"Why the hell was he even in the FTC?"
"That is what we have been attempting to ascertain, Colonel." Zelenka pushes up his glasses again. "One would assume that Rodney would pick more reasonable time to get in touch with his feelings."
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"Still Haven't Found"...hmmm. That one really was a flashfic - I basically had the idea and wrote most of it the same day - so I'm not sure what else I have to say about it. I like to think that Nancy is happy with her present husband, that they're better suited for one other than her and John were.
Also - though this is my opinion; it's not something clear in the story because I think it could be true either way (yeah, I'm not always sure what's going on in my own stories!) - but in my interpretation, I don't think John actually loved her. I think he thought he did, but because he wanted to find that happiness, not because he actually had. She did love him, but...
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So there's plenty I know about it, but don't want to give away, because I do want to finish it. I know how Lex got switched, I know who did it and why - I even have a couple snippets of the final scenes written.
AtD taught me to not post WiPs, because I can't handle them anymore. Never again! But dammit, I will finish it someday! (and really, I can't tell you what it means to know someone's still waiting for it! ^^)
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Me, too, me, too. As much as I'm waiting for Closer to Ordinary. If Rodney & John aren't speaking to you at the moment, maybe Clark & Lex would??
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An oldie but a goodie
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One of my betas said that Egon's scientific journals weren't detailed enough to be convincing, and if I was writing it now, I'd totally stuff in more technobabble. It's not crucial to the story, but the lack annoys me when I reread it now.
I've never been how much sense can be made in the story about the technobabble conceit the narrative is based on - the idea is, Egon & Ray have made this device (the transchronovisuoscope!) that can look at objects in other universes/timelines, extrapolating from objects in this one. So if you put a pencil into it, you can see what the pencil looks like in parallel timelines, whether it's shorter or been broken or whatever. So they've been putting in their journals and notebooks to see what's been written in them in the other timeline.
I've always wanted to write an original scifi story with a similar plotline, but I've never worked out the kinks...
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I'm enjoying reading your comments on this meme.
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Pern I'll hold off until I've at least completed the 3rd story. Regarding "Fake Birds..." I wish we'd gotten to see Ronon with Madison in the show, because it would've been adorable. Also, they took a chartered plane from and to Colorado Springs, so John can pilot - either because he hates being a passenger in flight, or because he wanted an excuse to fly; probably a bit of both. And yes, they totally go to Dave's for American Thanksgiving, and maybe let a few things slip that should've remained classified, so Dave doesn't exactly know what's going on, but has a few guesses, if he allows himself to believe them, which he doesn't always...
"Kuro to Ao" - there's a lot of random details of Japanese mythology and culture in the story that I didn't specifically note. Rodney lives on the southwestern slope because he and John live on the mountain to the northeast of the town, because in Chinese and Japanese geomancy, that's an unlucky direction, where demons will enter from. Shogi is Japanese chess, pretty much; and mah-jongg, like bridge, is a 4-person game, so ideal for the team. ...and so on; I could do an annotated version twice as long as the actual fic!
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I figured you'd do that... But I also figured it couldn't hurt to ask *grin*
Ooh, "Fake Birds..." makes sense... I am now sitting over here being amused by Dave doesn't exactly know what's going on, but has a few guesses, if he allows himself to believe them, which he doesn't always
I could do an annotated version twice as long as the actual fic!
If you wrote it, I'd read it :)