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Only two fics this year:
set fire to the rain - Bourne Movies, Jason Bourne/Nicky Parsons
This was my assignment, and I didn't really start it until, oh, two weeks before it was due. I've written this pairing before, though, so the problem was always going to be "how am I going to write this differently to the last two times I wrote it?"
The key was Nicky: her POV, and her past. And, frankly, I've wanted to write a story where Nicky is a sleeper assassin since the first year I was assigned a Bourne Trilogy recipient in Yuletide. (I think I'd better not list it next year. Tempting fate.)
Working out how the narrative was going to run was easy enough; the problem was always going to be dropping the little pieces of info here and there. I'm good at linear stories, but I suck at the timejumping ones. It's an art form I've never mastered. (Have to try a couple of stories this year, though.)
And then my beta pointed out my original ending was too sappy for the characters they are. She was right. So I had to rewrite it so there was still sex and intimacy but a lot more restrained. I think it works better this way.
It seems to have gotten a pretty good reception.
A Borogravian Duo In Ankh-Morpork - Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
I picked up a pinch-hit and promptly blanked on what needed to be done. This story got finished a bare two hours before the deadline for it, and it was stressful to write! (And needed a bit of rewriting/modification to be suitable.
The idea was pretty much to write a story where all the speaking characters Polly and Maladicta encounter in Ankh-Morpork just happen to be female - in much the way that the characters that the main characters of 95% of media all just 'happen' to be male. (Even the ones set in modern times, where one would expect around 50/50 respresentation.)
It was going to be bigger. It was going include Verity Pushpram, and Cheery Littlebottom, Sacharissa Crisplock, and Sybil Ramkin, Mrs Palm, and possibly Tawnee or one of her friends Brocollee... A bit too epic for the amount of time I had - I ended up just getting them to the Watch House in Pseudopolis Yard and leaving it there.
Anyway, The Borogravian Duo (title borrowed from Twain's "Conneticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court") seemed to go down well. Or maybe it was the footnotes that went down well? It was rather fun writing the female characters into the narrative, although I would have preferred actual interaction with Dotsie and Sadie, and with Mrs Proust.
There probably won't be a continuation, because I'm bad with continuations generally. *tucks all her 'possibly may be continued' fics under the desk*
note: There was actually a third fic, but it's not very good and now that it's posted, I realise I made some bad choices about how I did it. It's anon, but not orphaned, which means if you're subscribed to me on AO3, you know what it is, and if you're not, you could probably hunt it down, but, really, I wouldn't recommend it.
set fire to the rain - Bourne Movies, Jason Bourne/Nicky Parsons
This was my assignment, and I didn't really start it until, oh, two weeks before it was due. I've written this pairing before, though, so the problem was always going to be "how am I going to write this differently to the last two times I wrote it?"
The key was Nicky: her POV, and her past. And, frankly, I've wanted to write a story where Nicky is a sleeper assassin since the first year I was assigned a Bourne Trilogy recipient in Yuletide. (I think I'd better not list it next year. Tempting fate.)
Working out how the narrative was going to run was easy enough; the problem was always going to be dropping the little pieces of info here and there. I'm good at linear stories, but I suck at the timejumping ones. It's an art form I've never mastered. (Have to try a couple of stories this year, though.)
And then my beta pointed out my original ending was too sappy for the characters they are. She was right. So I had to rewrite it so there was still sex and intimacy but a lot more restrained. I think it works better this way.
It seems to have gotten a pretty good reception.
A Borogravian Duo In Ankh-Morpork - Discworld (Terry Pratchett)
I picked up a pinch-hit and promptly blanked on what needed to be done. This story got finished a bare two hours before the deadline for it, and it was stressful to write! (And needed a bit of rewriting/modification to be suitable.
The idea was pretty much to write a story where all the speaking characters Polly and Maladicta encounter in Ankh-Morpork just happen to be female - in much the way that the characters that the main characters of 95% of media all just 'happen' to be male. (Even the ones set in modern times, where one would expect around 50/50 respresentation.)
It was going to be bigger. It was going include Verity Pushpram, and Cheery Littlebottom, Sacharissa Crisplock, and Sybil Ramkin, Mrs Palm, and possibly Tawnee or one of her friends Brocollee... A bit too epic for the amount of time I had - I ended up just getting them to the Watch House in Pseudopolis Yard and leaving it there.
Anyway, The Borogravian Duo (title borrowed from Twain's "Conneticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court") seemed to go down well. Or maybe it was the footnotes that went down well? It was rather fun writing the female characters into the narrative, although I would have preferred actual interaction with Dotsie and Sadie, and with Mrs Proust.
There probably won't be a continuation, because I'm bad with continuations generally. *tucks all her 'possibly may be continued' fics under the desk*
note: There was actually a third fic, but it's not very good and now that it's posted, I realise I made some bad choices about how I did it. It's anon, but not orphaned, which means if you're subscribed to me on AO3, you know what it is, and if you're not, you could probably hunt it down, but, really, I wouldn't recommend it.
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