Preferences?

[brainofck]

I'm thinking about my stranded thing.

Sam is going to get the chemistry between the guys.

But I want to write one of the guys as clueless.

So. Which one is more fun? A Jack who is self-aware and a Daniel who has never quite realized what is going on between them?

Or a Daniel who is trying to hit Jack with a clue-by-four (to steal an expression from CJ) and a Jack who gets it a beat too late?

In the spirit of Adjustments, I'm tempted not to choose, but to write the same story both ways. But it seems dumb not to just make a decision and pick one.

Though this is not the only problem I am having with this story. For one thing, I am seriously debating character death, which I never do.

Comments

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Thinking about the boyz, I generally tend to see Jack as more self-aware and Daniel as someone who's more distracted by intellect so he's not always so on top of his own emotions. Althooough, it's also quite believable that Jack's been comfortably ensconced in his middle American hetero-military lifestyle so long that he doesn't think to question something that liberal academic Daniel's been open to for a long time. How helpful was that? ;-)

For one thing, I am seriously debating character death, which I never do.

Gah!!! You're scaring me!!! I've been so spoiled by your cracky-romantic writing I tend to forget you do things like Possession or Dark Muse. How dark is this fic in general? Would character death provide something integral? *frets*

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Very helpful. Not. :p

I started thinking about this as a realtively dark piece. But as I've thought about it more, it's gotten lighter. So not certain character death is warranted. Still pondering.

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

If story is really, really dark, I trust you to write death. If it's not, though, I don't think death fits. The main question is: dark piece or light piece?