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[brainofck]

Have been totally blocked on Arena, and I have decided the reason is that I am trying to force a full story where I don't really have one.

I have not finished what I consider to be the "backstory" section. The part that was driving large quantities of the bad!fic part. I had never thought it through, but it was easy to write, because it was always there, under the surface.

We have now come to the intermediate part where I really never even thought about it at all. I think that's why I'm stuck. There *isn't* anything. Also, I have made promises on smut that I can't really deliver. I came up with a storyline, but it hasn't even gotten a toehold in whatever part of my brain produces this stuff. I think that's the other reason I'm stuck.

Soooo.....

What this all boils down to is that I'm going back to writing this thing out of order. Skipping forward to Orli. If the other stuff someday wants to fill itself in, fine. It will be like a separate story, anyway, as it will probably be primarily KU/DW/EB. The DM/BB part has never flown for me, part of the reason I have been threatening the two of them with bad!sex, but almost nobody reading this journal gives a flying flip whether I write that or not, and some of you would actively prefer that I didn't.

Regarding Stargate... OK. DanielJackson and Col. O'Neill doesn't really work for me. They are either way to angsty and angry in a don't-ask-don't-tell can't-destroy-the-framework-of-our-team kind of way, as the drabbles already indicate, or they are just completley incompatible as lovers at all. I don't know how you people slash them.

Teal'c/Jack is a better pairing, but that dissolves under too much thought, because just CANNOT see Teal'c bottoming for Jack. Easier to imagine him doing a slave-boy routine with Dr. Jackson than letting Jack do him. But Jack on the bottom in that pairing goes all girly on me and whoa! That is not a good place to be.

Teal'c/Daniel again can't carry the weight. I could see this going quite far with Daniel topping, actually, but it doesn't do it for me.

The real issue here MIGHT be reality squick. The reason Jack and Daniel are too angsty is that I can't really see these people getting involved with the sex without all the baggage of years of close working relationship and deep friendship. I can't see this going ANYWHERE unless somebody says the "love" and I just can't see that happeneing in this crowd.

The only possibility here I think would be silly!fic. Total happy sex. Possibly long, long pre-existing relationship(s).

OMG. Writing this I'm almost talking myself into it again.

No. No, no, no.

So I think as far as written Stargate goes, we are in nowhere land, unless my brain cooks up some happy sex. Now if I could just get them to quit writing utter and completely hideous bad!fic in my brain... And no. No, no, no. Not. So quit looking at me like that, you two. No.

Anyway, that leaves me to bring Throw-Away to some sort of conclusion, and maybe finally get started on At Sea, which ought to basically write itself once I start, though it could turn out to be bad!fic and get trashed.

Comments

[whisper99.livejournal.com]

Erp? But you got better, didn't you? :)

[brainofck.livejournal.com]

Or worse! Depending where you stand! :)