I think that, when I started this community just after the show's finale last year, there was one thing I needed - more James and Juliet. We knew they'd fallen in love, we knew they were literal soul mates, but we knew absolutely nothing in between. And so I wanted to tell a story with them, figure out how they got to where we saw them in 'LaFleur'. I wanted to know every single day and every single detail, and if Team Darlton wasn't going to give it to me, then I'd write it myself.
Every day? That was ambitious. I did get through over 160 though.
I've written a lot of different things with James and Jules. I've had a lot of ideas. But there's only so much in a day or the span of a week or months that isn't just, well...boring. Think about your own lives. How often is there something really exciting to write about? And even though they live on an island, I don't get the impression that there were crazy, wacky, hostile attacks once a week. There are times, too, when I wish I'd written something differently, or taken another approach with something.
Will I still get random ideas? Probably. Which is why you can read all of my fic on my journal. It's public, always. I've written
James and Juliet are left behind on the island and she's pregnant, I've written
James coping without Juliet, I've done
James and Juliet pretending to be married, and
PLENTY of smut.
This community won't go away. It'll always be here. I've seen it recommended so many places and honestly, you have no idea how much that warms my heart. I'm not a great writer, there's nothing outstanding that makes me any better than anyone else when it comes to writing Suliet. I just felt like (and still feel like) they deserved more than what they got. But I'm out of ideas that move me to write exclusively for Dharma Days. It was a great time, and I'm so glad that a few of you enjoyed it enough to comment.
Please feel free to check out
my journal and search the fic tags, or friend me if you want to know when I've posted new fic.
Until next time,
Brittany