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Meme: give me the title of a story I've never written...

Mar 22, 2011 17:06

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accepted from Mustangcandi's meme post.

(2) A classic: Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the ( Read more... )

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fae_boleyn March 22 2011, 22:07:18 UTC

I loved the scene with O'Neill, Sheppard and Todd the Wraith in your SG1/Atlantis crossover. Such lovely snarking, why could this not have happened in the canon?

(And I am totally jacking this meme, just so you know.)

fae_boleyn March 22 2011, 22:13:21 UTC

I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the title. I think it was Enemy of My Enemy, right, with the human/Wraith alliance to beat the Ori?

rodlox March 23 2011, 02:00:27 UTC

hijack away; you pick gone ones; feel free to pick more.

> I think it was Enemy of My Enemy, right, with the human/Wraith alliance to beat the Ori?
*nods*

Why this probably could never happen in canon: SG1 and Atlantis spend most of the story in morally grey areas, and they pretty much end there - even if the War ends in their favor by a wide margin.

That and I show the Ori being as powerful in comparison with a Prior, as a Prior is in comparison with a newborn baby.

hence the passage...
"Holy shit," Baal quoted.
"Amen," said Aten.

The first line: "So you're positive that the Wraith will honor a peace with humans, so long as we let them - the Wraith - fight the Ori?" Jack O'Neill asked. And Todd's nod in the affirmative didn't help ease Jack's apprehensions about this plan: We're going to set a species of lifeenergy-eaters upon a race of godlike beings of pure energy. What could possibly go wrong?

My greatest fear in this fic: Aside from the amount of theological examination ("you call me a god because you have no more ( ... )

fae_boleyn March 23 2011, 02:07:47 UTC

I completely understand endings changing their minds on you and muses outvoting you. As for your biggest fear, well... You handled it excellently. :)

pygmymuse March 23 2011, 07:55:00 UTC

Title: It Was Never Pity

Foyle's War.

I really liked this look into the relationship/friendship/dynamic between Sam and Milner and the contrast between the way his wife saw him after the war and how Sam saw him.

:)

rodlox March 23 2011, 21:59:53 UTC

oooh, been a while since I heard that title mentioned by anyone. gracias!

Inspiration for the story: I was about to fall asleep one night, when one of my muses asked me "Who is worse off, relationship-wise, Sam or Milner?"

I didn't get any sleep after that.

Sam?? An uncharitable bloke might call it "the kiss of death" - guys she gets interested in, die...or get transferred to the middle of war-torn Europe.

So why didn't Milner sleep with Sam? It may have proven that Milner wouldn't die on her, but Milner would not have been able to get past the fear (no matter how she allays it) that it was done in pity for him.

So I worked on their emotional states as best I could.

Previously seen on... The kids were Sam's own "baker street irregulars" - the ones who (in one episode) were looking for paper and other things to reuse to help the war effort.

And the women RADAR operators didn't seem distressed by the lack of Andrew Foyle this time around.

Who is Jacob Chen? Were you hinting at a possible crossover? If I was hinting, I ( ... )

pygmymuse March 26 2011, 01:37:13 UTC

I've been without my laptop for the last couple days, and in all that chaos, I forgot to thank you for this. Sorry.

You're welcome. I enjoyed Foyle's War, though admittedly, my fandom ADD got the better of me and I didn't watch all of it, but I really liked Sam and Milner (and yeah, I'd ship them, I think.)

Very nicely done. I like your answer to why Milner wouldn't sleep with Sam.

:)