Sawing off the serial numbers, leaving a pile of wreckage.

I rewrote a fanfic as original work last night.* Considering the professor's disdain for "genre" fiction I picked something that could be taken out of genre (not admitting which story it was, because you all knew better).

Ugh.

All the character tension drained out like color under a blacklight.

So I started adding in bits of backstory, but, then the character hook came into the picture just too late.

Shit.

Maybe I need better criminals in my chop-shop. Or else to revisualize the entire story, start-to-finish. Or give up and write a quickie original fic. (*sigh* I don't have tiiiiimmmme....)

- Oh. In the meantime, I'm hard at work on that Mission Report for sga_flashfic. All three of my betas loved it, but one had many, many suggestions. It's been sent, now. Ve Vait for Ze Beta.
- The John-Screws-Up fic... still stuck. (Thanks, Lorne.)
- Out Of Bounds... in need of tighter outline now that it has a second storyline.
- Unnamed John/Rodney porn... I can always work on that one.
- Just watched "Common Ground" and "The Real World." ( Cut for your protection. )

* Those of you who missed the poll, I'm asking a professor a favor: to allow me to use namowrimo for my creative writing class in the fall. He wants to see a bit of my writing first.