Covenant 6 and 7 posted at last

[ostarella]

Well, bit the bullet and posted Chapters 6 and 7 to ffnet and my website. Have to send a reminder to the Archive, too - remind them of the earlier chapters being out there and that I've added these two now.

I got a compliment from an apparently new reader the other day - basically said no matter what the situation I put them in, I treat the characters "with respect". I thought that was kinda nice. Actually, I thought it was terrific <G> 

Well, going to try and get more done on 8 today. My brother's down and it's always hard to concentrate on writing when someone else is in the house. Good excuse, right? Actually I'm trying to think of that next sentence - you know the one. The one that starts the ball rolling and shoves the rest of the chapter down your throat before you know what's happening.

So evasive...

Comments

[beckyblack]

That is nice feedback. Sounds like words to live by as a fanfic writer. I hope I do the same. I won't make the characters perfect and sometimes they even do bad things (I mean I know how you felt about whay they did in Cabin Fever) but I think a writer can get away with that as long as the characters show an awareness that they are doing something dubious, feel bad about doing it and have an otherwise good motive for doing it.

Generally though I hate bashing fics, even bashing of characters I don't like. Frankie gets bashed plenty, but I don't like that. (Yes, I know, I made him evil and shot him, but ya know, he was more interesting that way!) Just because people don't like Stockwell that's no excuse to turn him into a moustache twirling villain tying a helpless Face to the railroad tracks.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Yeah - Cabin Fever was disturbing to me - still, I couldn't say if it was because I just couldn't believe Face would do that, or if it was such a shock when it was revealed. I've been meaning to re-read the edited version, and see if it still bothers me. (add that to my ever increasing list of things to get accomplished. Sheez...) But I mean, disturbing or not, it was still an excellent story. And it's kinda like death fics for me - I will re-read them, but I just skip over *that* part. (If I don't read it, it didn't happen - right?) LOL

I have to admit to the Stockwell Syndrome - most of the stories he's in, he's definitely the villain. I plea faulty memory for the first one, but I wasn't exactly nice to him in the Randy stories, either. After rewatching Season 5, I realized that he wasn't nearly as bad as people made him out to be; I'll have to see if I can throw him into another one and be a little more sympathetic. But he does make a wonderful villain - doing the wrong things for the right reasons. ;-) I don't think I've ever really made him just a nasty person.

Frankie - he's like an OC that one really wishes hadn't been created I mean, he's so stereotypical, it's hard to really do anything with him unless you fling him hard in one direction or the other, good or bad. Just to get away from that stereotyped character he was in the show. I usually try to send him off on some kind of errand or something just so I don't have to deal with him at all.

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

I need to add Cabin Fever to my To Read list too ;o)

Actually I was going to add on LJ my Christmas Wish List, 1 would be a Dr Who.... so I could get more time!

mmmm....I've not written Stockwell or Frankie yet, although a season 5 bunny did come to me and is yet to be written. Well I've started it, just need an ending. I can't see myself making Frankie a goodie, but not an evil baddie either. Stockwell's a toughie too. Because really, he's a kind of goodie. Would send the team in to do stuff, get rid of the bad guys etc. but to the team, he's a baddie, because well, he's got them hauled up in Langley with Murder charges around their neck! And I think he conspired to get them there too!

Great feedback by the way. I think you both do an excellent job in keeping the boys as our *guys*, in character etc. But add that little bit more depth that they need in Fanfiction. So you can both pat yourselves on the back ;o)

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

oh and I would just love to have your imagination and brains, for the stories you develope. Mine always seem so *simple*.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I have more imagination or I'm just more diabolical Give it time, Billy - we'll corrupt you so Amy turns into a real vixen LOL

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

I would love to turn Amy into a vixen! ...must work harder on that one!

[beckyblack]

I've been meaning to re-read the edited version, and see if it still bothers me.

I did tone down that scene in the kitchen, so they are a bit more sorry about what they are doing. And I think I added a fair bit more angst about it for Face. Heh, and you should reread it anyway, for the pressure cooker incident I added in the editing. Which is funny and angsty and Face & Decker bondy. :D

But he does make a wonderful villain - doing the wrong things for the right reasons. ;-)

Yeah, that's how I like him portrayed. I still live by what I had him say in Settlement, that he's one of the good guys. Of course he said this to Amy, who he'd had his minions gas unconscious and abduct...

Frankie - he's like an OC that one really wishes hadn't been created
Frankie is a Mary Sue! Or he would be if he was an OC in a fanfic. He's supposedly terribly good at his special effects fu, all the canon characters seems to like him inexplicably and he ends up moving in with the team! Well, the canons are all supposed to like him, I think some of the actors didn't manage to convince us of that. Ahem. :D

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

I really do have to read the new version. Really, it was a great story, and now I'm especially anxious to see the changes. :-)

Frankie a Mary Sue? You hit the nail on the head. The curious thing to me was how Face seemed to spend so much time with him at first. I would think those two would get along like oil and water - one relaxed and confident, the other such a total...and so arrogant without cause! At least Amy and Tawnia both knew their "roles" with the team...

Now I gotta go to bed - working graveyard shift is killing my day times...

[beckyblack]

Maybe Face let him tag along on the same principle as one might go out "on the pull" and take along a less attractive friend. ;-)

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Oh geez - I used to do that. Come to think of it, that's how I met the first guy I was engaged to.

No wonder I don't do it any more