And the computer goes *boom* ... the fic vanishes

[icarus]

Here's a fanfiction heart attack.

Midway through my sga_santa fic, the borrowed laptop suddenly freezes.

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[wordwitch]

aaack!

*hugs*

[icarus]

Thanks to Google-fu, saved.

But this would have been easier to fix if this weren't a Mac.

Well, okay, I would have known what to do if it weren't a Mac.

[monanotlisa]

Oh, CRAP. :/

[icarus]

Saved! (Thank you, Google.)

Now. I have a bit of a quandary. I started my sga_santa fic with a certain minor pairing that the requestee requested.

The majority of the fic involves said minor pairing in a sporadic relationship.

But now, last night, as I worked out some plotting issues, uh, it, er, switched to a different minor pairing at the very end. *cough*

The requestee said she was good with UST. So it is UST. But UST where the one character ends up with someone else (even though he still UST's away).

Um. The theme turned out to be that the one character deliberately fantasizes about someone completely out of reach so he didn't have to risk being turned down.

I should ask a beta this question, shouldn't I.

[monanotlisa]

But UST where the one character ends up with someone else (even though he still UST's away).

Hee. Unsolicited opinions'r us, so let it be said I probably wouldn't like this sort of thing UNLESS, of course, the person the protagonist ends up with is the OTP of the requester.

[icarus]

Drat. Maybe I should toss this story altogether and write something else that's McShep.

I could steal the one battle scene out of it and see what I could build around that....

[monanotlisa]

Eek, tossing it sounds like a waste - as implied, I'm totally subjective, and Very Set In My Tastes...