my so-called life

[seldear]

Right, so when I signed up for apocalypse_kree, I didn't realise I was signing away a bit of my soul to surrealphantast in exchange for a finished story.

D'oh!

Nine thousand, six hundred and ninety-six words later, the muse is laughing her ass off as I gently point out that we're only halfway through the story and the crisis has only just hit the story.

Of course, I'm currently getting more of it written at work than I ever do at home, possibly because I'm being paid a contractor's wage to surf the net and write fic since they don't seem to be able to come up with anything to keep me occupied longer than a couple of hours right now.

I could have slept in.

The sleeping patterns are still screwed to hell, thanks to Dr. Who (honestly, whoever wrote/conceived that episode should be forced to deal with my insomnia and everyone else's after that episode screened!) and I get periodic headaches. Possibly due to not getting enough sleep.

The profic is not happening fast enough. I'm undergoing a crisis of characterisation (although this was assisted in a discussion with gwemegil regarding the characters and how I could differentiate their tones. I'm also a little worried that my thirteen year old protagonist sounds closer to thirty-three.

I'm also undergoing a bad case of authorial jealousy after reading a really cute fic by someone who can do both action-drama and narrative humour in a single short story. I really need to work on my "sense of the ridiculous" - I can appreciate it, I just can't write the damn stuff.

Oh well.

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From allisnow: ask me a question, any question.

Comments

[majorsamfan.livejournal.com]

If Rodney McKay kissed Sam Carter under the influence of some alien virus, would she slap him or kiss him back? (And perhaps an even better question...how would Jack O'Neill choose to kill him when he found out?)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Oh, slap him for sure. And the alien virus would give her an excuse to physically take him down "he might have been a danger to the SGC/Atlantis, sir".

Jack: "Of course, Carter."

And I don't think Jack would kill Rodney. He'd just do something really mean, like co-opt Sheppard's habit of wandering into a lab somewhere to play with devices that only react to the real Ancient gene and not the gene manipulations Carson did. And then he'd activate everything that Rodney can't activate, and walk out whistling while Rodney fumed and Radek was silently amused.

[majorsamfan.livejournal.com]

Perfect!

[triciabyrne1978.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... just one question...

If you could create and ideal pairing based on any two TV characters who would they be and why? (also, you can combine characters to make your ideal couple - ie take qualities of Fox Mulder and Radar O'Reilly to mesh into Fox O'Reilly or something highly more creative and less crack!fic worthy)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

...you don't ask the easy ones, do you?

See...I think that my two main 'ships (see header) are more or less "ideal pairings" for me - the characters are complementary in strengths and weaknesses, they're not overly-emotional (or when they are, there's good reason for them to be overly-emotional and they're not stupid when "in love"), they've got their personal hang-ups and issues, but I see them as having the personal wherewithal to work at whatever trouble crops up...

I never had trouble with the "Sam wants Jack to say the words, while Jack wants Sam to act on it first" angle that SG1 took. I don't have trouble with the "Teyla likes John but isn't sure she likes him that much, while John likes Teyla but has been gently held at arm's length enough that he's not going to risk embarrassing himself" angle that Atlantis is taking.

And the ways in which they act and react stand true to how I see (and how I want to see) their characters. So...I don't know if that's "ideal" as you describe it.

I have the feeling that that answer would be considered a cop-out, though.

ARGH.

Do they have to be TV characters? Can they just be fictional?

...I don't know that I have an "ideal" pairing, per se. There's no such thing as "ideal" to me, because good characters have their problems and troubles, the parts of their personality that don't fit and the parts of their personality/commonality that do - like real people. So, there are pairings that are better fits than others, in the way I see healthy and helpful relationships, but they're still not ideal and I don't think I'd ever want them to be.

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[triciabyrne1978.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's not a cop out...

And in my book - I agree - 'Ideal characters' SHOULD have flaws. It makes them more human... more REAL.

So that is ideal for you :-)

[angst-angel.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I hope the insomnia and work on the profic improve, hon!