fic_rush_48 | ROUND 113, HOUR 35

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often I just roll with it; it's not always a difference that affects what I'd plotted, and the usual impacts on my plot are subsets of "this story is better than I planned"

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a_phoenixdragon

I find if I try to NOT reign them in, I get better fic than planned, so I feel you on this! :D

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badly_knitted

I'm awake! I think.

I have no control over my characters. They do what they want when they want and give me funny looks if I try to tell them what to do. *sigh*

(Love your icon!)

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a_phoenixdragon

LOL! A good beverage will being wakefulness about, I'm sure. :D

Oi...thee and me, dear one. Trust me. I know of what you speak of!

(Thank you! Duke was totally the Hero in my book. :D)

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badly_knitted

Can't drink tea or coffee unfortunately. Water isn't as effective.

My characters are the reason I, a non-smut writer, now write smut. Dee is a horndog who won't take 'no' for an answer, and won't cooperate at all unless he gets a smutty fic every now and then. He goes on strike. I could write other characters in other fandoms, and I do, but he's always lurking at the back of my mind, complaining.

Mine too. One day I should write a fic to bring him back, but I can't get the final season on DVD at an affordable price and I can't afford streaming services to refresh my memory.

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a_phoenixdragon

But much better for you, I assure you!

Wow...characters forcing you to act...out of character, lol! With that one dominating character that always pesters and complains. Yeah. I totally get it.

I wrote one...but it wasn't great. I wrote it without refreshing myself. But it seemed to pass muster with the mods of the BigBang, so I guess I am okay with it (but honestly, it could have been better and I know it). But it was fun to write. I am lucky enough to have access to it on Netflix, so I can visit it at any time. Alas, as a dark!ficcer, I take a leeetttlllleee to much enjoyment at the Scene. Hopefully one day, the final season will be available at a more reasonable price for you. Cause yeah...good episodes in that one. Though I still get mad on occasion at Nathan for his asshattery. Arrrggghhh.

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badly_knitted

Perhaps, but I miss tea. Used to drink it all the time.

I love all my many characters, but they can be a pain at times. I let them do most of the writing ;)

I prefer writing fluff anbd happy fic, so if I ever get around to it mine will be short and lean towards the fluffy. I kind of ship Duke/Nathan/Audrey, or whoever the new version of Audrey was right at the end. I wish I'd made notes at the time, all the ideas I had watching those final episodes, but I thought Haven would probably get repeated before long and it's been like three years since it was on. =/

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a_phoenixdragon

Arrghhh, well that sucks. Just goes to show, what one person takes for granted another may not be able to. Apologies for being flippant, m'dear. I assure you I meant nothing by it. If it helps, some of the best tea is way too expensive anyhow.

Right? In the end, we have to do what THEY want...or we'll do nothing at all. Meh.

Fluffy and happy fic is good fic. I read quite a bit of it, though I am quite terrible at writing it, to be sure. And Duke/Nathan/Audrey is the best shippy ship to ship, really. The only one that truly makes sense all around. I rather wished I had made notes as well, as I did not have access to Haven when I wrote my own fic on it! Hopefully you will find a way to get ahold of it soon.

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badly_knitted

It's fine, I just wish my stupid stomach wasn't so sensitive to everything *sigh*

Befoire I started writing I thought the writer dictated what happened in stories. Then I started writing my first fic and Jack and Ianto started a completely irrelevant conversation and wouldn't shut up. That's when I learned the truth - writers are the tools the characters use to tell their stories.

I can only write dark fic if I'm feeling really good. The rezt of the time I fluff like crazy. Right down to my original alien character, Nosy the Fluff.

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a_phoenixdragon

Digestive issues are the worst!

LOL! I used to think the same - and got corrected rather quickly, as well. I still like to stubbornly think that I have some modicum of control...and my characters indulge me in this thinking, lol!

Alas, even when I try to fluff, dark fic generally comes out. I have no idea why at all. I don't remember reading about Nosy, but I will admit it has been awhile since I have properly read fanfic. I may have to check him out. :D

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badly_knitted

They really are. *sigh*

They cooperate if they're in the mood, but they go their own way whenever it suits them, which is most of the time.

Some writers have a default setting that resists change.

Nosy was supposed to be a one-off character in a short Torchwood fic, Capturing the Beeast, but it proved so popular there are now dozens of fics about it. Still amazes me it's so popular still, even after 10 years.

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a_phoenixdragon

They cooperate if they're in the mood, but they go their own way whenever it suits them, which is most of the time.

OMG, EXACTLY. Ugh...

LOL

Sometimes Original Characters can be the most popular. So glad that is the case with Nosy. Just goes to show, too: what you consider a one-off, a lot of your readers consider a permanent fixture, lol!

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badly_knitted

But the do tell me great stories, probably better than I could come up with by myself, so...

Nosy is definitely a permanent fixture in the Torchwood Hub and at home with its human friends. It's family now.

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a_phoenixdragon

Right?? Where do the characters come UP with the stuff they do? :D

Aww, that is so awesome! I will definitely have to check out fic with Nosy in it, now. :D

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badly_knitted

Yesterday I posted a FAKE fic I wrote where Dee and I have a difference of opinion on how the story should go. It was fun to put into writing what I go through with him when he's being stubborn, but I probably never would have written it if the challenge hadn't required it, so that was interesting, lol!

I have a Noisy-Verse master list on my journal, but that's only the fics. I don't have one for the drabbles on dreamwidth yet (there's a drabble Master List on LJ), another thing I need to get around to eventually, but there is a Nosy tag.

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a_phoenixdragon

Wow, that is rather cool! LOL! The things we do for a challenge that we would never think to do on our own, yes?

I may have to check the tag...gahh, I'm terrible about updating my own lists, as well!

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badly_knitted

So true, but if they were too easy they wouldn't be challenges, right?

I keep my Master Lists up to date, but post sizes are bigger on dreamwidth so I had to divide my drabble master list on LJ ages ago, several times, and I separated out all the Nosy drabbles then. But it's a far bigger task now, no idea how long it will take and I don't know when I'll find the time to do it. The tag will find everything Nosy-related though.

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a_phoenixdragon

Exactly. :D

Och, those character limits. The thought of having to re-rebreakdown my fic lists is exhausting. Hmmm. Wonder if that is one of the subliminal reasons I find it hard to write these days...

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badly_knitted

Yeah, breaking the lists up drives me nuts. Have to do it occasionally on dreamwidth but not as much as on LJ.

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a_phoenixdragon

I have a tendency to 'mirror' my lists between ElJay and Dreamwidth. Just because OCD. *headdesk* So yes, I make it that much harder on myself, lol!

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badly_knitted

OCD here too *sigh*

I post to both places (and a couple of others) every day, and update my master lists every time I post, and it was okay at first when the lists matched on both sites but now they don't, which I hate. LJ messed my drabble list up so badly it's in about 5 pieces now. It was already in two parts, but one day I updated it and it took out all the spaces between lines. When I tried to put them back it said the post was too big, so I took them out again and it was still too big, so I reduced the text size, which helped for a bit but then I had to split it again and even half the post registered as too big. Part of me wants to re-do the list from scratch, just to satisfy my OCD which keeps screaming that it's WRONG now! But I have close to 2000 Torchwood drabbles...

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a_phoenixdragon

OMG, that would make me nuts. It would easily become a twelve hour project (that is, if I didn't rage delete after ten hours, lol!) Ye gods...

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badly_knitted

Yeah, LJ issues often make me want to throw my computer across the room. The number of panic attacks LJ has caused me in recent years...

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a_phoenixdragon

OMG, what a headache ElJay can be...but where would we all be without it?

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badly_knitted

Exclusively on dreamwidth probably. I stay on LJ because I still have a few friends there and I want access to the Torchwood and Doctor Who communities there.

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a_phoenixdragon

Alas, I cannot quit ElJay, even if I wanted to. Many friends and comms there...and it has always been Home, in an odd way. Prolly been there too long. Dreamwidth is lovely, but it is not ElJay. Still. Awesome, more organized and a better, healthier site than ElJay, truth be told. Still, despite that, ElJay is home.

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badly_knitted

LJ is where I first settled when I came online in 2008 (late starter), but the landscape there is bleak these days, so many people gone. It's sad. Many of my friends have simply vanished.

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a_phoenixdragon

I only came in to ElJay at 2005, so I feel you on the late start!

It is sad. I miss all those who had been there even a few years ago. Seems they are just dropping off the map in droves. Most of them going to FB (which I have dallied with once or twice before giving it up as a bad job and a site to avoid).

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badly_knitted

I've never been on facebook, never seen the point. I came for the fanfic *grins*

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a_phoenixdragon

Trust me, there is no point to FB, lol!

Came for the fic...stayed for the people. :D

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badly_knitted

I stayed for both. Only planned on reading other people's fics, wound up writing tons of my own. Plot bunnies took over my brain.

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a_phoenixdragon

Ohh, yes this...though I have a habit of wandering to AO3 and sites like that to read fics there...but the links are generally from ElJay and DW. :D

Plot bunnies will do that. Even when you do NOT feed them, lol!

*HUGS*

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badly_knitted

I think my plot bunnies may be relatedcto Tribbles...

I don't seem to have time to read these days *sigh*

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a_phoenixdragon

LOL! Tribbles!! The thought of those fuzzy nuisances always makes me smile.

Arrrghh, that must be frustrating! But I am glad you are able to find time to write!

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badly_knitted

Just saw the Deep Space 9 Tribble episode lastr night *grins*

It's the writing that takes me away from reading. I haven't missed a day writing for more than 7 years. Some days it's what keeps me going. It kept me sane while caring for mum after her stroke, and it gave me a refuge after she passed away. Writing is my therapy.

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a_phoenixdragon

Ohh, that is a cute one!

That is a good thing, there. And quite an achievement! I'm glad it has helped you through such hard times. It can definitely be cathartic.

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badly_knitted

One of my favourites. I think I'm enjoying DS9 this time around much more than the last time I watched it.

Thanks. Yes, it is, and I really don't want to break my streak because I'm scared if I miss a day I'll never get started again.

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a_phoenixdragon

Some shows are definitely like that - so much better at a later viewing.

Heck yes! Keep going, keep going then! Whoot!

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badly_knitted

It's been a very long time since I watched any of the newer Star Trek series, but DS9 is on TV at the moment, and I alreadty watched Next Gen when that was on.

I plan to!

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a_phoenixdragon

I watched Picard recently and enjoyed it. Only have one or two nitpicks, but beyond that, it is a gritty series and I enjoy it so much! I haven't seen Discovery yet...and it has been a long, long time since I have seen TNG or DS9.

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badly_knitted

I haven't seen Picard or Dicsovery, but I'm enjoying DS9 and Enterprise at present. There's a lot I don't remember. I've found I like Bashir more than I used to. I remember finding him very annoying, and he still is at times, just noit as much. Also, Sisko is WAY better once he shaves his head and grows his beard. That's the Avery Brooks I know and love. He just seems so awkward in the first season or two, out of place and not a strong character.

I'm also doing another Babylon 5 rewatch, and that is the best of all.

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a_phoenixdragon

I agree...Sisko was much better when he changed not only his appearance but relaxed a little, lol!

Ohhh, B5! The best of the best!

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badly_knitted

I think Avery Brooks was a bit out of his depth in the role to start with, perhaps it was his first time doing SF and it took him a while to get used to the dialogue and really find the character.

I was doing a B5 re-watch, until my stupid DVD player started to refuse to load the discs. I can play other DVDs, but not the next B5 one, the last disc of season 2. Stupid technology.

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a_phoenixdragon

But once he did!! SF is a different beast. It truly is. But once you go SF, it is hard to get back to 'serious' *cough* work. :D

UGH...dammit! That would tick me off utterly...wth...

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badly_knitted

I think SF is liberating for an actor, you get to try things you never good in mainstream shows.

I know! I have no idea what my DVD player has against B5 right now, but it needs to get over it. I might try that disc again at the weekend. Weekdays I have Deep Space 9 and Enterprise on TV every night, so no time for DVDs.