Some fic rambling
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fannish5 thing from a couple of weeks ago:
Name five totally self-indulgent story ideas. (The fanfic you would write if you didn't care if you had an audience and also had no shame.)
And the problem is that I really have no shame. For goodness sake, the last thing I posted was kinky Florton smut. So yes, there's very little I won't write if I want to write it. That's probably one of the things I've noticed about my writing, there's been three distinct stages:
1) Beginning - posting pretty much whatever I wanted because whee shiny new toys.
2) Trying to keep people happy, posting stuff you think they'll like.
3) Writing stuff you want to, and lo and behold, other people like it too.
I like the stuff written in phase 3 best (with one noticable exception) because it's so much more fun to do and I think it comes out better because its got soul.
That being said there are two fics I'll never write because they're blatent Mary Sue-age, and well, they're just not good. They are both CSI Miami fics:
1) Mysterious woman turns up at Speedle's grave, and hosts a Guinness-fuelled wake. Horatio is informed, comes out to see WTF is going on. Introductions are made, she's a very gay defence lawyer who was in dorms with Speedle, and had moved down to Miami to join a law firm and found out about Speedle's death, hence the impromptu wake.
Of course, she turns up and wipes out about 3 cases of the Miami-Dade Crime lab in one day, and so Horatio bitches and whinges about it, and she explains that they were all badly managed and all the rules of proceedure had been broken. So he tries to guilt trip her using Speedle's name and she rips him a new one, and talks about justice and the perversion thereof.
2) A killing is traced back to a woman who disappears without trace. Further poking reveals the person to have done it to have been temporarily assigned to the British Embassy in New York. Lots of to-ing and fro-ing goes on, and it's revealed that she is a British secret agent who was carrying out orders. Horatio threatens to expose the plot, and a meeting is arranged. It's made clear to Horatio that if he does expose the plot, she'll admit the guilt and insist that there isn't a plot and cane come up with evidence that she was alone in it. Horatio pretends that the discussion is being taped and she hands him a piece of paper that is a sectioning form saying that she's a delusional schizophrenic. Big speech about duty and the fact that she's perfectly willing to go to the chair and die for her country, so he's free to do what he wants but he won't go public with any plot. There's also a heavy hint that the US government is in on it too. She hands him a business card with her contact details and tells him he can find her in London if he wants to charge her.
They would be bad fics.
The other fic I'll never write is the AMW break-up fic. Because it would be long and plotty, but all the major plot points happened on TV already and I am not a good enough writer to pull it off because it's all about blame and guilt and addiction.
It starts with Storm starting to drink heavily because he doesn't like what him and Chris have turned into, because this isn't them, they aren't supposed to be Jarrett's lap-dogs. So he drinks to forget but he can't ever forget and the drinking really only makes it worse and he knows that but he can't stop.
Harris keeps trying to have a word with him, but doesn't know how to, and can't get up the nerve. Then he gets distracted by Gail Kim, and they're cute and adorable and in love and he forgets to pay attention to Storm.
AMW drift apart, and clash because Storm is hurt and drunk and has no self-control and Harris thinks he's not fighting hard enough and generally there is bad blood.
Then the actually split happens, and Storm blames Harris and Harris blames himself for not paying attention to his best friend and Storm points out it's this thing that Harris has of putting himself at the centre of everything that annoys him the most.
The main problem, other than not being a good enough writer to do it justice is that there's no ending or resolution, because I want a happy ending damn it, but I know it's not going to happen on screen.
So that's the grand total of fics that I'll never write.
fannish5 thing from a couple of weeks ago:Name five totally self-indulgent story ideas. (The fanfic you would write if you didn't care if you had an audience and also had no shame.)
And the problem is that I really have no shame. For goodness sake, the last thing I posted was kinky Florton smut. So yes, there's very little I won't write if I want to write it. That's probably one of the things I've noticed about my writing, there's been three distinct stages:
1) Beginning - posting pretty much whatever I wanted because whee shiny new toys.
2) Trying to keep people happy, posting stuff you think they'll like.
3) Writing stuff you want to, and lo and behold, other people like it too.
I like the stuff written in phase 3 best (with one noticable exception) because it's so much more fun to do and I think it comes out better because its got soul.
That being said there are two fics I'll never write because they're blatent Mary Sue-age, and well, they're just not good. They are both CSI Miami fics:
1) Mysterious woman turns up at Speedle's grave, and hosts a Guinness-fuelled wake. Horatio is informed, comes out to see WTF is going on. Introductions are made, she's a very gay defence lawyer who was in dorms with Speedle, and had moved down to Miami to join a law firm and found out about Speedle's death, hence the impromptu wake.
Of course, she turns up and wipes out about 3 cases of the Miami-Dade Crime lab in one day, and so Horatio bitches and whinges about it, and she explains that they were all badly managed and all the rules of proceedure had been broken. So he tries to guilt trip her using Speedle's name and she rips him a new one, and talks about justice and the perversion thereof.
2) A killing is traced back to a woman who disappears without trace. Further poking reveals the person to have done it to have been temporarily assigned to the British Embassy in New York. Lots of to-ing and fro-ing goes on, and it's revealed that she is a British secret agent who was carrying out orders. Horatio threatens to expose the plot, and a meeting is arranged. It's made clear to Horatio that if he does expose the plot, she'll admit the guilt and insist that there isn't a plot and cane come up with evidence that she was alone in it. Horatio pretends that the discussion is being taped and she hands him a piece of paper that is a sectioning form saying that she's a delusional schizophrenic. Big speech about duty and the fact that she's perfectly willing to go to the chair and die for her country, so he's free to do what he wants but he won't go public with any plot. There's also a heavy hint that the US government is in on it too. She hands him a business card with her contact details and tells him he can find her in London if he wants to charge her.
They would be bad fics.
The other fic I'll never write is the AMW break-up fic. Because it would be long and plotty, but all the major plot points happened on TV already and I am not a good enough writer to pull it off because it's all about blame and guilt and addiction.
It starts with Storm starting to drink heavily because he doesn't like what him and Chris have turned into, because this isn't them, they aren't supposed to be Jarrett's lap-dogs. So he drinks to forget but he can't ever forget and the drinking really only makes it worse and he knows that but he can't stop.
Harris keeps trying to have a word with him, but doesn't know how to, and can't get up the nerve. Then he gets distracted by Gail Kim, and they're cute and adorable and in love and he forgets to pay attention to Storm.
AMW drift apart, and clash because Storm is hurt and drunk and has no self-control and Harris thinks he's not fighting hard enough and generally there is bad blood.
Then the actually split happens, and Storm blames Harris and Harris blames himself for not paying attention to his best friend and Storm points out it's this thing that Harris has of putting himself at the centre of everything that annoys him the most.
The main problem, other than not being a good enough writer to do it justice is that there's no ending or resolution, because I want a happy ending damn it, but I know it's not going to happen on screen.
So that's the grand total of fics that I'll never write.
