Comments | beccatoria: Writing Request: I am Maya Argo (BSG Laura/Maya, Six)

beccatoria

Writing Request: I am Maya Argo (BSG Laura/Maya, Six)

Jan 04, 2008 23:22

Next, on becca-write-to-order-with-sucky-titles (srsly, if anyone has a better one I'm open to suggestions) we have projectjulie's story! It's ZOMG 5,350 words.

The prompt I used was: Roslin/Maya/Six, shape of future - they thought Maya was just an ordinary girl, an innocent bystander to history (they couldn't have been more wrong)

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Comments 15

mymatedave January 5 2008, 00:36:10 UTC

I love this. Your POV's for six and Maya are simply amazing, six being not quite sane, wanting her other Gaius and Maya being a oracle who walked away and just wants to be a teacher and love Roslin is brilliant. Thanks.

beccatoria January 5 2008, 12:53:24 UTC

Thank you! Really - thanks for taking the time to write that. I'm so glad the POVs are clear and that you got not only Maya's choices but also the differences between Six and her Gaius'; I was worried that wouldn't be clear.

projectcyborg January 5 2008, 06:44:17 UTC

Part 1! beccatoria January 5 2008, 12:48:53 UTC

I don't really understand how you're suddenly be writing thousands of words a day, or how I'm suddenly be able to magic such things into existence just by asking. if I got a little choked up reading this (I did), it was partly the quiet intensity of the fic but partly the beauty of -- seriously, this is my life?!

You're spoiling me! But I do understand what you mean; truly. This project has been...so much more successful and useful to me than I ever dreamed. Nearly all of these stories have had plots beyond the complexity I usually feel comfortable with/capable of and I constructed all of them in a day. I had forgotten how wonderful it was to be a writer and how freeing and how much I don't begrudge spending all my after-work time typing if I have something worth typing about. So thank you for participating and giving me the chance to write this. I never would have otherwise.

this story is, for the record, the best thing anyone has ever done for Maya. Again, you spoil me, but really, that's the best thing anyone could ever ( ... )

Part 2! beccatoria January 5 2008, 12:50:28 UTC

it unfolds so beautifully, building a web of revelations and connections. for such a long fic, it was a breathless read.

*blushes*

what a love story, too. the matter-of-factness of Maya's feelings is so refreshing, after all the unrequited emo. so calm and so profound.

Thank god that came through. That was another of my mandates to myself. Not to write Supermarket again or drown in the usual angst of fanfic love stories (not that I dislike that; I've written it myself). Sometimes someone will just come out with it and kiss you. Sometimes I find myself more affected by characters who aren't emo than the ones who are. Emo is so...popular these days?

it does beg the question, though: how does she not know about Hera? this is always the central problem of trying to make Maya into anything more than an ingenue. she has to know, right? I like to think that she does suspect, and is choosing to ignore the implications, as is her way. but I wouldn't have minded a line about it.The implication in my mind was that she's deliberately ( ... )

projectcyborg January 11 2008, 03:35:45 UTC

YOU'RE spoiling ME!

Honestly, I'm not sure.

LOL, it was mostly a rhetorical question! I think you're right, though, that rhythm is a big part of it. my biggest pitfall as a writer is and always has been my tendency to purple prose, but big words or strings of clauses can really compromise the way that sentences scan. that's why I owe so much to my ruthless beta.

the added line is very nice -- I think it does add an important clarification (hint, at least).

oh, and I think I lied -- I'm writing more like 2000 word stories? and anyway they're all manageable chunks of larger projects. so I can't really talk.

in conclusion, *HEART*

Im in ur lj, reading ur fics! hmpf January 22 2008, 19:14:26 UTC

Well, sort of, anyway. I've started. I keep getting interrupted by stupid RL today, though, so we'll see if I actually manage to *finish* at least this one tonight. *grumble*

(I don't have a Roslin icon, so I'm giving you a responsible-for-genocide-angsty Doctor instead.)

Re: Im in ur lj, reading ur fics! beccatoria January 23 2008, 20:48:41 UTC

Hoorah, and take as long as you like! :D

(And I DO have a Roslin icon, so I shall use it!)

Okay... as per usual, your writing leaves me at a loss for words. hmpf January 22 2008, 20:47:04 UTC

There is very little useful I can say, beyond 'squee!' I think I will rec this in my next entry... (may be a few days, though, as I'm trying to actually, y'know, *work* a bit for a change before I make my next post. *g*)

My main impression from all your writing is that I want to be you when I grow up - and then I remember that I'm already grown up and you're in fact quite a bit younger than me, and then I feel a bit inadequate, because clearly I don't have half the insight into People or Life that you do. This is very humbling.

Really love this fic, and your Maya. (Yay for Mayas who are essentially original characters! *g*)

Re: Okay... as per usual, your writing leaves me at a loss for words. beccatoria January 23 2008, 20:46:21 UTC

*blushes*

Well firstly stop being so daft about People and Life, neither of which I believe I have that much insight into; I just make up crap that sounds good. And you always, always have too low an opinion of yourself. Normal has boatloads of insight. And you need to stop fiddling with the first sentence of 68 Wives and post it already. One of the things this whole excercise reinforced for me was that sometimes, things aren't perfect, but posting them - getting them out there is more important than that. And doesn't mean you have to stop fiddling with things either.

I know and respect that you work slowly and it's very important to you to feel that things are finished, and polished. To a large degree I share that impulse. But I'm just...encouraging you gently, to realise that the piece is awesome, and far more finished than the piece above. :)

On to your actual comments: thank you for taking the time to reply and I'm really, really glad you liked it (indeed hooray for the excuse to write original characters in fic ( ... )

Re: Okay... as per usual, your writing leaves me at a loss for words. hmpf January 23 2008, 21:11:21 UTC

>I just make up crap that sounds good ( ... )

Err, I feel a need to explain my icon. hmpf January 23 2008, 21:15:45 UTC

Because I just realised I didn't post about it in my LJ, and without context it may be a bit... incomprehensible. *g* It's basically the more oblique, less offensive version of this one:

( ... )

millari September 1 2008, 16:04:54 UTC

Hi, I saw this on crack_van today and am not even sure why I initially clicked it. But I'm really glad I did. This fic almost rendered me speechless. Not only is the writing gorgeous, so atmospheric, but the characterizations are so interesting, and not just Maya, whose voice is absolutely gripping. Six is fascinating too. Laura is less surprising, but she is solidly Laura, very believable, very recognizable ( ... )

beccatoria September 2 2008, 11:57:35 UTC

Wow! Thank you for taking the time to write up such wonderful feedback!

I'm glad that Maya's voice worked for you. I admit I was a little nervous about essentially writing an original female character as the narrator while keeping it recognisable as BSG. That you didn't want to skim over the stuff specific to her is brilliant to hear. Thank you.

Also - I never would have thought to express it this way, but -

But New Caprica had a way of demanding that everyone step up and be special, no matter how frightening or inconvenient it was. That's what's great about setting a story like this on New Caprica too - the setting itself is like Head!Gaius to Caprica Six, pushing these characters to face up to its demands.

Wow, that's totally true.