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And so it begins.
I've been asked to join a Virtual Season writing team. I'm sure there are plenty out there, being plotted and planned and discussed and pimped all over the shop. I expect the f-list will be full of announcements when I actually get a look at it.
In a twist that anyone who regularly keeps up with this LJ will find hilarious, it's a Shep/Weir Virtual Season. Yes, a notoriously anti-Shep/Weir writer was asked to write in an openly Shep/Weir VS.
There are tissues over by the sideboard for those of you presently in hysterics.
I declined. Other than that I have too many stories of my own to complete, I've already done my time trying to write in and run Virtual Seasons in previous fandoms.
In addition, I tend to get my own ideas about storylines and where they should go, and, given my own character and pairing preferences in this fandom, my ideas very rarely intersect with what "most fans" want to see. Which is a recipe for disaster when you're working on a VS team which already has a specific 'skew' to which you don't subscribe. (My other experience with character/pairing 'skews' in VSs is that it doesn't take long before they overwhelm the writing - Our Stargate's SG1 VS6 and Jackfic's SG1 VS9 are classic examples of this.)
Possibly my inclusion is a sop to 'other areas' of fandom outside of the Shep/Weir contigent - I saw at least one name on the invites list who was more into the Shep&Rodney gen angle of the show - but even if this is the case (and I'm not saying it is), it's still a compliment to have been asked.
I'm just not going to add another project to my 'to-do' list.
It does make me wonder just how many Virtual Seasons are going to sprout in Atlantis fandom in the next six months, though.
I've been asked to join a Virtual Season writing team. I'm sure there are plenty out there, being plotted and planned and discussed and pimped all over the shop. I expect the f-list will be full of announcements when I actually get a look at it.
In a twist that anyone who regularly keeps up with this LJ will find hilarious, it's a Shep/Weir Virtual Season. Yes, a notoriously anti-Shep/Weir writer was asked to write in an openly Shep/Weir VS.
There are tissues over by the sideboard for those of you presently in hysterics.
I declined. Other than that I have too many stories of my own to complete, I've already done my time trying to write in and run Virtual Seasons in previous fandoms.
In addition, I tend to get my own ideas about storylines and where they should go, and, given my own character and pairing preferences in this fandom, my ideas very rarely intersect with what "most fans" want to see. Which is a recipe for disaster when you're working on a VS team which already has a specific 'skew' to which you don't subscribe. (My other experience with character/pairing 'skews' in VSs is that it doesn't take long before they overwhelm the writing - Our Stargate's SG1 VS6 and Jackfic's SG1 VS9 are classic examples of this.)
Possibly my inclusion is a sop to 'other areas' of fandom outside of the Shep/Weir contigent - I saw at least one name on the invites list who was more into the Shep&Rodney gen angle of the show - but even if this is the case (and I'm not saying it is), it's still a compliment to have been asked.
I'm just not going to add another project to my 'to-do' list.
It does make me wonder just how many Virtual Seasons are going to sprout in Atlantis fandom in the next six months, though.
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I think they went for a) prolific, b) high-profile authors in the various sections of fandom, without necessarily considering the pairing- or character-preferences of the authors in question.
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So, no excuse. ;)
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*goes back to her Python program*