1) I just watched the series premiere of Castle (yes, I'm slow) and -- LOVE! LOVE. I hadn't heard too many rave reviews of it so I wasn't in a hurry to check it out but -- LOVE.
2) I also just watched (David Hewlett's part in) Century Hotel. Anyone have any Century Hotel DH fic to share? Yes? *bats lashes*
3) Today marks the end of craziness for me, or at least a serious tapering-down. I was kind of vaguely considering doing SGA Big Bang and then realized I kind of, oops, missed the deadline by about 10 minutes and oh well. I didn't want to sign up and then check out again like I did in 2007. Still, maybe I shall do it sort of on my own-like, sans the pressure of capital-P Participation. Does anyone out there in SGA-land want to lower-case-c cheerlead or (more likely) lower-case-b bully me into finishing? More importantly, does anyone have an idea for a story they've been dying to read because I'm kind of creatively tapped at the moment.
4) I just finished rereading Omiai for the first time since, well, pretty much since I wrote it. It was nice -- it's been five years (DEAR GOD, REALLY?) which is enough time to have a pleasant critical distance. The parts that were weak didn't make me want to claw my eyes out, just to smile at my former writerly self, and the parts I thought were strong were kind of bland, but it was such a fun exercise to write that novel with the flist support and the plottiness and all its attendant angst. (For those of you who weren't around back then, or weren't in SV, Omiai is a 100,000 word novel that I cranked out in nearly daily installments -- I KNOW -- over about four months.) Anyway, I feel like my writing has changed quite a bit since then. I'm striving to reach true "show, don't tell" mastery but I'm not there yet. Still, I think I've come some way from the time when I could shamelessly have my protagonist expound on his emotions (tearily) for paragraphs at a time.
5) There is no 5.
6) I really need to go and shower now. MWAH, flist.
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Yes, me too. (Thank goodness for both of us.)
I will cheerlead and/or bully, and anything else you might require to get you to participate-ish in big bang! I have plot bunnies too, but I don't know what might appeal. What do you feel like writing, genre-wise?
'Century Hotel Series' by Tarlan - http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/viewseries.php?seriesid=5
'Of Cold Making Warmth' by siriaeve - http://siriaeve.unrealwords.com/ofcold.html
And its remix 'Home Fires' by cupidsbow - http://cupidsbow.livejournal.com/249494.html
What kind of fics do you like writing? I know you've tackled a lot of the cliches. Do you like AUs? I have about a hundred and six ideas for SGA AUs.
And, oh, Omiai, those were good times. I had no idea it was 100,000 words, though!
Absolutely! I tend to have a lot of fun with those, indeed. Do share!
I had no idea it was 100,000 words, though!
I know, it's a bit stunning -- I think I could probably have said it all in about half as many words with a little planning and forethought and such.
Okay, SGA AUs (I'm afraid you'll have to bring your own plot for some of these):
Pegasus Driving School: the one where they're long-haul truckers OR they're in high school taking driver's ed.
futuristic hooker au: it's the future! John's a cop on the Atlantis police force! Rodney's a licensed escort! Someone's killing hookers and Rodney's next!
Mythbusters: John and Rodney are them.
Nursery AU: Zelenka owns a (plant) nursery, and Rodney works in the greenhouse and Cadman likes squirting him with the hose, and everyone runs around in t-shirts and khaki shorts with walkie-talkies clipped to their belts.
I did have this vague idea for a time-travelling fic where John and Rodney accidentally wind up in the future (back on Earth was my thought but could be Atlantis) on a wonky gate trip and get stuck there and struggle to adapt. Rodney would think he could catch up on the science at first ("Brilliance is brilliance, Colonel, it's timeless.") and John would think the same thing about being military but then everything would be different and everyone would think of them as terribly old and old-fashioned and they'd sort of flail towards each other.
I like anything that takes place on Atlantis in the future when it's a fully functional city, whether it's an AU and John and Rodney grew up there, or time travel is good too, or they could even go backwards in time and Atlantis is still filled with Ancients and we find out they're not so tidy and intellectual as we previously believed. Like there are lazy Ancients and nervous Ancients and that one guy who likes to wear women's clothing.
http://www.davidhewlett.co.uk/fiction/browse.php?type=categories&catid=12
Of course, as I'm half a season into Leverage, the immediate (really quite bad) idea to spring to mind is The One Where They're a Con Team. But somehow that doesn't seem quite your preferred genre.
Of course, as I'm half a season into Leverage, the immediate (really quite bad) idea to spring to mind is The One Where They're a Con Team. But somehow that doesn't seem quite your preferred genre.
Hee! That sounds like it would be really fun (just watching that season myself, as it happens!) but definitely not a genre I have tried before -- doesn't mean I couldn't try, I suppose!
Actually, though, given that one of the things you do brilliantly as a writer is create dissonance in the characters' understanding of what's actually going on, you know what I would really love to see you do? The One Where everyone's in an AU ... except for John, who is trying to persuade the others that they aren't actually [baristas/professors/accountants/whatever], they're the primary team on a base stationed in another galaxy. They're not supposed to be here, it's just that [aliens are messing with them/John fell into an alternate reality/whatever]. No, really, and -- hey, are you calling the cops?
Either that, or I want to see you write season 6. :) Because seriously: wtf, powers that be, you can't just ditch Ronon and Teyla on Earth, and it's not like John's going to do that well back with constant military oversight ...
That's cool, sort of reminds me of that fic by
Because seriously: wtf, powers that be, you can't just ditch Ronon and Teyla on Earth, and it's not like John's going to do that well back with constant military oversight ...
*nodsnods* The fic where they all pull a "The Return Part II" and bust their way back to Pegasus! Actually, that'd work well in a Leverage-style team effort too.
And yay, always, to David Hewlett's ass—
I'll be happy to help you out with cheerleading, I was on the verge of volunteering for Big Bang cheerleading but feebed out at the last minute. I'm so glad you're writing SGA, this is going to be so much fun!
Of course not! Please do.
I don't mean to slam Omiai -- actually, quite the opposite. For a while there, I really couldn't read it at all, I was too wrapped up in everything I would change now. Now I can read it and sort of enjoy it in a detached way.
I'll be happy to help you out with cheerleading
Whoo! Offer gratefully accepted!
And I can totally
botherpoke you about SGA not-BB. Not sure about story ideas though...I'm still waiting for an SGA amnesia epic?I'm still waiting for an SGA amnesia epic?
I immediately think of Unidentified (http://fiercelydreamed.talkoncorners.net/main/archives/stargate-atlantis/unidentified/) by
What about a Firefly/SGA crossover where SGA stuff up and manage to wipe out the Wraith, but wipe out every other race as well. Which leaves Earth That Was to develop all alone, bar a Gou'ld or two.
Then the firefly crew find Atlantis and manage to undo whatever they did and suddenly people are co'habiting with aliens and alien space craft are everywhere and the Wraith and the Reavers are battling for top of the food chain.
Or the one where John's a shapeshifter who can become a dragon, but he can't tell anyone and has to control his emotions all the time just in case the beast within hurts someone. Oh the Angst! But what he doesn't know is that everyone with the gene has a secret and gene therapy is doing something more then letting the people with it turn on the lights ... Can John help Rodney through this trying period?
Sign me up for cheerleading :)
I would love to sign up for cheerleading/bullying. I just need to remember to log onto LJ and try not to be plagued by the flu. But seriously, would love to read anything by you.
I love Firefly/Atlantis xovers. There aren't enough long stories of that. I was toying with the idea of transplanting the SGA cast onto Serenity's crew, as so:
John = Pilot and leader (Wash and Mal combo in one)
Teyla = John's right hand woman (Zoe)
Ronon = John's shoot-first-questions-later crew (shinier, smarter version of Jayne)
Elizabeth = Poor diplomat well-known for unconventional ideas traveling as passenger (some kind of Inara)
Radek = Atlantis' mechanic (Kaylee)
Cadman = Passenger who is a preacher bored of preaching (Book)
Carson = Passenger with mysterious cargo, who is also a doctor (Simon)
Rodney = Loudmouth genius (River) who can't believe Carson came up with this plan, oh my god, this will never work! Who can also...um...sync and 'talk' with spaceships after the government experimented on him and has plans for a super bomb in his head or something.
So epic tale starts at the beginning and they go off for adventures in space!
Or you could make Rodney take the place of Inara as the loudest, bitchiest, whingiest companion in space and John is constantly surprised that he's so popular...
Or, there's the AU of Rodney as a crime and horror novelist who has writer block and is approached by Detective John Sheppard for help with a murderer who is copying scenes from his novel... :P A Castle AU would be awesome.
And I remember Omiai fondly. It has a premise that can either go so badly and embarrassingly if not written well or go brilliantly. You took it down the brilliant path. :)
http://raveninthewind.livejournal.com/1033378.html
I think it is still fun to read. :)