Is it really fic amnesty day?

[auburnnothenna]

Is it?

Never mind, it's past midnight anyway.

Have some bits and pieces I still like out of a story that didn't work out. (The one that nearly made me quit fanfic entirely.)

Upward Over the Mountain
words: ~36,725
sga
mckay/sheppard

Dancing Stones
words: ~4375
sga
mckay/sheppard

Center of the Sun
words: ~5255
sga
mckay/sheppard

Comments

[ratcreature]

I haven't read the long bit yet, but I enjoyed the shorter pieces about their offworld missions.

[auburnnothenna]

Yeah, as a whole the big story had too many problems to work, but there were sections that I liked a lot and wanted to use somewhere, but they're never going to fit anything without extensive rewriting, so it's take them for what they are, glimpses of a story that wasn't.

[meelie]

Interesting! I really enjoyed these, even though they all finish right after you start getting into them! 'Upward Over the Mountain' especially - I love 'cut off from Earth' stories, and I enjoy stories where Lantean diplomacy isn't as two-faced and selfish(yet moralistic!) as it always ends up being in the show.

[auburnnothenna]

That's the problem with excerpts, they always tease, seldom satisfy.

[seekergeek]

They're all awesome. Cut off from Earth stories are my favorites and these really catch the flavor of having to survive as a colony.

[lavvyan]

Just a precaution: are these going to break my heart? Because you know I'm a wuss on certain days. ;)

[auburnnothenna]

Then you should avoid Center of the Sun. In the larger story it was part of there was a happy ending, but ends before that on a real down note.

[lavvyan]

Ah, okay, I'll stick with the other two, then. Thanks for telling me.

[lavvyan]

I can see how you'd like those bits and pieces: they're very intriguing, and the set-up is great. But I can also see how they'd have the potential to turn crazy-making. Still, it's sad that the story will never be written.

[dossier]

I am pleased that at least some of 'Upward' will see the light of day.

[auburnnothenna]

The first part that I put up is -- I'm not ashamed of it. It hangs together. But fixing what went wrong with the rest, no, I don't think so.

I was looking at it last night, reminding myself that a long story can fall apart if you revise too many times and try to stick with canon - then remembered, no more changing canon and I'm doing an au. But, jeez, one hundred scenes? I hope they're short.

[dossier]

100 scenes? Really? *eyes my saved draft hopefully* It didn't fall apart so so much as introduced concepts that needed more flesh. The ending is worth it, I think. I swear, at random times I think about that scene in the bazaar, and tears spring to my eyes.

[auburnnothenna]

Err, 100 proposed scenes for the epic au of doom that I'm notwriting. I'm still shuffling them around; it looks like a non linear narrative with multiple povs.