For the first time in my stupid writing life, I'm ready to write some original fiction - really ready to tackle it - and I have about 50k of fanfic I need to edit in the next 15 days. *sigh*

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I was reading this: Mr. July

I have to say, as I contemplate writing original fiction, I fell I HAVE to figure out a way to have a Thor character. Somehow. And he will have to appear in every single piece of original fiction I write. There has to be a way.

He's the best character EVER! :D

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OK! I'm officially looking for a beta for The Moon Is Not a God. 20k, need the beta to be complete and back to me no later than Friday, May 18 so I can incorporate comments and be ready to submit the final on May 21.

Teal'c POV. SG-1 goes to a planet where they are infected with a retrovirus that turns them into werewolves. SC/DJ/JO, with Teal'c/SG-1 UST. If you are interested, you can e-mail me at brainofck at gmail dot com or just reply to this post. Comments screened (I think - I never do that!).

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FINALLY, the werewolf story told me it's ending! I am so relieved. I have sent the complete rough draft to my patient artist. Now, to hunt up a beta. Haha. I said hunt. Final word count appears to be hovering at almost exactly 20k, though that may change a little as I edit.

I am so relieved. I feel like my whole life has been on hold while I have struggled with the ending on this thing.

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Dude. A drabble = 100 words. It does not mean extra-short 500 word fic. *glares at stupid author*

UPDATE - while ranting to someone else, I did a check on the word counts of these drabbles. One was 1098. One was 613. *sigh*

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Anybody out there reading any Justified slash? Got any recs?

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Prompts? I find myself a bit uncertain about asking for prompts, but heck, why not?

May I encourage prompts based on stories already out there in my ether? My mostly complete Stargate index is located at this link.

Or prompt what you will.

No promises!

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Despairing of my werewolf story, constantly reminding myself, "you're sick, you'll like it better when you feel better," I decided to spend some free alone time this evening just reading the werewolf piece.

I'm pretty happy with the Teal'c voice I've created. It's working for me.

But I just had a big OOPS moment. At a critical point in the early story development, I made the werewolves telepathic. Then I totally forgot I did that.

*facepalm*

Artist claims are open, but I don't have an artist yet. I'm not too broken up about it. I actually through, earlier today, when I was throwing up, that hey, I could just back out gracefully now. But no, I think I'll be able to pull it all together and not let an artist down. Assuming they round one up for me. Multi-fandom topical big bang? Crazy stuff.

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Well, I finally lost an entire scene to the change of POV. Can't recover this one, either, really. So here, you have it.

:D

( Seems like a long way to walk for a couple of nuts, a bag of blue near-potatoes, and some garlic )

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OK. Here's a question. How does Teal'c think about the members of SG-1. I was going with O'Neill, SamanthaCarter, and DanielJackson, but when you are spending a lot of time inside Teal'c's head, this formulation seems a little burdensome.

( Here, have a porny example )

What do you think? Too much, or does it work, even coming fast and thick like that? I could change to Teal'c thinking of them all by full first name - Jonathan, Daniel, Samantha? I could also do an added little bit at the beginning where Teal'c thinks about their names and expresses his fondness for Tau'ri nicknames which he would never speak because they are disrespectful, or whatever, but he still thinks them because they are wonderful to him - something?

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