Ficathon progress, woo and hoo!

[fignewton]

So, my sg1teamficathon story went off to my marvelous beta. I told randomfreshink that the plot wasn't supposed to be there, and she would probably want to cut out lots of boring scenes. But does she get the hint? Noooooooo. Instead, she asked for more!

Silly beta. :)

On the other hand? Random has an incredible talent for spotting the potential in a story and helping the author make it work. So thanks, Random - I think this one is going to be a lot of fun!

Mind you, it's half a ficzilla in length. In fact, if you combine it with the other ficathon story - the one for sg_ep_ficathon, which I have thankfully thrown in Random's direction - it comes out to more or less the same length as my original ficzilla.

Perhaps I should stay away from ficathons for a while. Learn how to drabble. :)

How about you, teamy goodness flisters? How's your ficathon coming? Pump me for sympathy or pat yourself on the back right here!

Comments

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Oh, WORDS! Yep, definitely an improvement to "vague idea floating around the ether," or even "I know this one scene will show up somewhere but I have no idea why or how or wherefore."

So, yay!

I was a little worried about Sam being backgrounded, because the story ended up mostly in Jack's voice, which is a first for me. But I think she's showcased nicely. And she handwaves the solution to save the day at the end, AND she picks up some nice doodads, so it's all good. :)

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Yep. The vague idea floated in the ether for nearly two months and then rydra_wong poked my brain just right and BAM, it all fell out in this crazy jumble of scenes.

YAY! WORDS!

Jack voice is an adventure, isn't it? And, yeah, that was similar to my problem - I wanted to stay entire in Sam's PoV and she spends most of my story being, well, very confused, and so it was hard to give the other characters as much prominence as I would if Sam were lucid or I rotated PoVs or was more of a removed narrator. But it's how the story wanted to be. I gave all of them something important though.

[aurora-novarum.livejournal.com]

Well, Sam is often happy with doodads and yay for solution handwaves!