beatrice_otter: Sam Carter against a blue background. (Sam)
When we left Our Heroes, Jacob had just finished being an ass and Sam was upset.

New Lives, Part One
New Lives, Part Two
New Lives, Part Three )


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beatrice_otter: Cartoon Obi-Wan and Yoda: The thing is, there were just no warning signs. (Warning Signs)
Ick. My current main-focus fic, New Lives, is stalled. Not good. I hate writing sequals--it's so much harder. But, unfortunately, I wanted to see Jacob's reaction, and he wouldn't have fit in Consequences. So I'm writing the sequal, only it's not going well.

On the bright side, one of my other fics that had been stalled for a while is picking up. Alas, it is the least-likely of all my fics in-process to be read by many people. It's a DS9 fic with all OCs. I mean, I like it, but people do not read fanfic for OCs, and DS9 isn't exactly a hot fandom with lots of stuff going on. It was far and away the best of the ST series, but it never really got the recognition or popularity it deserved, and it's been off the air for years.

And I've got a bit of a plot-bunny for Superman Returns in my head, but a quick check of ff.net reveals that it's like the single most-written story out there. Ack.
beatrice_otter: Sam Carter against a blue background. (Sam)
Okay, here's the first part of New Lives, the sequel to Consequences. This is everything posted so far at Fanfiction.net. FF.net gets updated weekly in small chunks; it'll probabbly be another month before I have enough small chunks to make a big chunk to post here on LJ.

New Lives, Part 1 )

New Lives, Part 2
New Lives, Part 3

Quote of the Day:

Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.
-Dr. Marvin Slind

(Dr. Slind is a history professor at Luther College; I had him for "Rome: Republic and Empire" and "Modern European History (1815-present)."
beatrice_otter: Me in red--face not shown (omg)
They're going to release the original trilogy on DVD, digitally remastered but in the original editing. As in, unaltered. No "Han shot second" crap! No Hayden at the end of Return of the Jedi! Woohoo! But get yours quick when they come out, because this is apparently only a limited time offer.

Get the full details from Lucasfilm here.

Wow. I am so incredibly thrilled by this. Yes, I have the original trilogy on DVD already, but there is no way in hell I'm going to miss out on this. If I'd known they were going to do this, I wouldn't have gotten the Special Edition ones. Ah, well.

In other news, the office is incredibly quiet today, weird though that is for this time of year. So, once I've gotten all my work done, I'll be free to write. I've got about 1,000 words so far on my ficathon story, and Jack's brother just showed up in New Lives. Interesting times for the new couple ;).

New Lives

Apr. 26th, 2006 09:55 am
beatrice_otter: Me in red--face not shown (Default)
Well, chapter three is up at fanfiction.net. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a sequel to my story Consequences, a Stargate: SG-1 fic that goes AU in the middle of the episode "Broca Divide." In that story, Jack was infected earlier and so didn't stop Carter in the locker room. I have read so many saccharine stories that start out that way. This was my reaction to that:my rant )

By the end of Consequences, Jack and Sam are together and the big issues have been mostly worked out. New Lives begins about a week later, but if you're expecting happily ever after ... well, we'll get there eventually.

Any way, I'm finding NL a lot harder to write than Consequences was. I've fallen back on my old writing style of just trying to get 500 words a day done. Just writing for the word count. It's more mechanical than I'd prefer, but on the other hand, right now it's the only way I'm getting anything done. NL feels very 'talky' to me, and I'm not sure if I'm hitting the right amount of exposition or not, or if some scenes feel repetitive. What I need is a beta who won't spare my feelings. If anyone wants to volunteer for the job, please let me know.

Oh, and I get a large chunk of story written before I even start posting, so anyone who volunteers will get to read stuff weeks before it gets posted anywhere. (I do this so even if I hit a dry spell and don't get anything written on a story for a while, I can keep up a regular posting schedule while I get my writing schedule back on track.)

Minor Spoilers )
beatrice_otter: Me in red--face not shown (Default)
Aaaah! No, no, no, this is bad. The fic I'm currently working on, New Lives, is going slower than the fic I just finished, Consequences. (Which is up on ff.net, and will be here soon.) Anyway, New Lives is a sequal to it and I'm finding it a lot harder to write. So it's going slower. And I sat down to write today and found that the last section I wrote either was never saved or got overwritten somehow. I don't want to have to retype it! I don't even remember exactly what I wrote! I always write a few chapters ahead of what I post, so I have some stuff I can put up this week despite the lost words ... but I hate having a small gap between what I've got posted and what I have on my hard drive. It's a lot less pressure to just get something written if I know I've got some slack to play with if I need it. And the slow writing I've managed with this story so far is not conducive to building more lead time, unless I make the chapters shorter. Which I don't want to do.

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