Fragmentary Rodney/John amnesia fic

[flaming_muse]

I am amusing (and/or punishing) myself by going through my WiPs. Wow, some of them make me cringe. I hate having fic that'll never see the light of day, but sometimes it's just the best way. *mourns for those fics

Comments

[flaming_muse]

Thank you. I'm not sure that I'll be able to go back to it, but I really had fun writing it. I can just see it so vividly in my head. :)

[janedavitt]

Oh God, now I feel guilty! You should finish it, you really should. Ignore me.

[flaming_muse]

Don't feel guilty! You were right to point it out, and how awful would I have felt if I'd been unconsciously ripping her off for 30,000words? I'm grateful to you! *tacklehugs*

[janedavitt]

I freaked out last week because I found a sentence in a fic of mine that was similar to a sentence in another fic I'd skim-read the month before and gone back to read properly.

I KNOW I didn't copy it intentionally; hell, I don't remember reading it the first time round I headed straight for the smut :;cough:: but there it is.

Totally weird.

And I don't think you could do that; it's not you at all and you just wouldn't. I think I said the baseline was similar but what you did with it after that wouldn't have been.

::hugs::

[flaming_muse]

We all build off of each other, but it's amazing how easy it is to come close to someone else's work, even when you're conscientious not to.

I found myself in a bind with the A!X, because I barely remembered even the vaguest idea of the fic, but I didn't want to read it again because I knew it would color this fic one way or another if it were in my head. There didn't seem to be a good solution. Having been burned early on in fandom by someone half-accusing me of plagiarizing her fic because there was a dynamic between two characters that was similar, I'm very sensitive about it. (Though if it happened now I'd laugh and explain the concept of fandom hive mind, but at the time I was upset.)

[darkhavens]

I can think of at least three fics that I have saved on my computer that have the same general plot, but that's the wonderful thing about cliches - they're recyclable! There are really only two choices for an amnesia plot. There's the wholesale memory dump where everything's gone and X doesn't know who he is (and I just reread one of those starring John as Mr Clueless), and then there's the one where X has dialed back the clock and doesn't remember the last Z number of years (and thusly the relationship he has with Y).

If you wrote this, I would read it, and probably save it to read again and again becuase I really do love amnesia fic. :D

In short - I love it!

[flaming_muse]

Aw, thank you! Cliches are recyclable, but I couldn't keep going if I thought I was re-writing someone else's work, you know? Even if I didn't mean to.

I do love amnesia fics, though, and it was very much fun to play with it. Oh, the angst potential! Oh, the happy ending!

Thank you so much.

[trinityofone]

Oh, I love this! (And mourn for it. *pout*) Amnesia is one of my favorite clichés, and this one looks great.

[flaming_muse]

Thank you very much! It hits a lot of my amnesia kinks, including and especially the other party suffering in silence (well, relative silence - it is Rodney), and I'll always wish I finished it.

[aurora_84]

Oh wow.

I am really sad you won't finish this, cause the part you already had was just perfect (Why is there so little good amnesia fic in SGA anyways??).

[flaming_muse]

I thank you for your comment. I was sad, too, when I realized I couldn't keep going, but it's wonderful that you enjoyed what I did write as much as I did. :) Thanks!