Writing In Twilight

FANDOM: Bones/Stargate crossover written for the femme_fic ficathon.

TITLE: The Trio Beneath The Temple
SUMMARY: When a trio of anomalies are found beneath an ancient Egyptian temple, Dr. Temperance Brennan is called in to examine the evidence. But what she finds will challenge her dedication to the truth and her understanding of the universe.
CHARACTERS: Temperance Brennan, Sam Carter, with assorted cameo apperances, including Jack O'Neill and Seeley Booth.
PAIRINGS: implied Sam/Jack
RATING: PG-13
SPOILERS: Bones - up to Season Three, Stargate - up to SGA Season Four, but either way, this story will make the most sense if you've seen the Stargate SG-1 episodes Moebius I and Moebius II
WORDCOUNT: ~11,000 words
AUTHOR'S NOTES: My betas, grav_ity and rodlox, were magnificent and helped out significantly with the archaeological/anthropological side of things. Extreme thanks goes to my sister who gave me her anatomy textbook from which I researched my anatomical anthrobabble, even if she'll never read this entry or this story!

Once, several thousand years ago, it had been a temple to the Egyptian sun god, Ra. Doubtless in its day, the outer courtyard had been filled with worshippers and petitioners, thick with the press of human fear and piety, rank with the stench of unwashed, sweaty flesh...

Once again, allisnow gets me into a new show.

jalara? You were right on the money, hon. A strong, kickass, not-prone-to-showing-her-emotions woman with a sensible streak as wide as the Beltway. I like.

It's a good show. Some of the acting seems a little unsubtle, but the lines are good and it's nice to watch something and not feel "I've seen this character/situation/enemy/achilles' heel/weapon/planet before..." which is what tends to happen in SGA. And it's fun guessing at who's the killer.

Oddly enough, this is a show that I can watch while eating dinner. Although I sorta wince at the maggots.

The difficulty with writing fic for this series is that anything not geared towards romance is naturally going to be very technical in aspect which most people don't cope well with when it comes to writing fic. They can do the romance and relationships - obviously, we all have feelings, emotions, thoughts, desires - but the detail of action-adventure is trickier - especially if you have people who might nitpick in your area. And we're all scared of the nitpick. Well, not scared exactly. But I feel a sense of shame when I've written a paragraph or two around something technical and someone comes in and corrects me - I didn't do my research well enough.

It would be interesting though: I've only ever written for fandoms with a strong sci-fi or fantasy element, so this would be new. We'll see.