Otter's Rock

The sequel to Consequences.

New Lives, Part 1

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Part 3

kuna_yashmaa had a comment about my fic Consequences, specifically about the way I portrayed Carter (a scientist) as having a deep faith. kuna_yashmaa thinks that the two are, for the most part, mutually exclusive, unless you "run [them] on two separate servers." I don't believe that, and I had this whole long response that I was going to post in reply to the comment, but then I realized I should put it out where everyone can see it.

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Still blocked on New Lives. Nothing new written. Ick.

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Well, chapter three is up at fanfiction.net. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a sequel to my story Consequences, a Stargate: SG-1 fic that goes AU in the middle of the episode "Broca Divide." In that story, Jack was infected earlier and so didn't stop Carter in the locker room. I have read so many saccharine stories that start out that way. This was my reaction to that:( my rant )

By the end of Consequences, Jack and Sam are together and the big issues have been mostly worked out. New Lives begins about a week later, but if you're expecting happily ever after ... well, we'll get there eventually.

Any way, I'm finding NL a lot harder to write than Consequences was. I've fallen back on my old writing style of just trying to get 500 words a day done. Just writing for the word count. It's more mechanical than I'd prefer, but on the other hand, right now it's the only way I'm getting anything done. NL feels very 'talky' to me, and I'm not sure if I'm hitting the right amount of exposition or not, or if some scenes feel repetitive. What I need is a beta who won't spare my feelings. If anyone wants to volunteer for the job, please let me know.

Oh, and I get a large chunk of story written before I even start posting, so anyone who volunteers will get to read stuff weeks before it gets posted anywhere. (I do this so even if I hit a dry spell and don't get anything written on a story for a while, I can keep up a regular posting schedule while I get my writing schedule back on track.)

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