sswt - Surprise edition!!!

[bookaddict43]

I'm actually home for once on my day off and want/need to write!

Anyone out there?

If you are, sign into this post and let me know. We're going to write for an hour and then come back and discuss our problems etc.

Remember to track the comments and then you can keep up with what everyone is doing.

See you in an hour!!!!

Comments

[xx-squish-xx.livejournal.com]

Just the first part. It's a bit all over the place at the moment. Let me see if I can put a little excerpt here.

*sigh* I'd put another section for you to read, but it's all a jumble and won't make any sense anyway, so here's just a snippet of the beginning:

Jayne figures he knows what Zoe needs.

She needs someone to get in her way a little—shake her out of her silence. Cause Zoe's got to walking around the ship like a ghost. Someone oughta remind her that just 'cause Wash's dead, it don't mean she is. Everyone else is walking on pins and needles around her, even the Captain, and Jayne'll be damned if he's gonna do that.

So he don't treat her no different. In fact, he goes out of his way to push her some, see if she'll push back. 'Cause a woman like Zoe, she don't want to be treated like no China doll.

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

Well I like the beginning. At first you think Jayne's answer is sex, but then it's to push her!

So what about Zoe's response to this is it next? Or do we get a description of the said 'shaking up'?

[xx-squish-xx.livejournal.com]

not much in the way of zoe's response in this fic. it's all Jayne pov I think. But next comes some description and then a small bit of interaction.

We'll see. I had wanted to post it before the month was out, but that is clearly not going to happen. Even if it is Leap Year! :)

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

awwwwwwwwww *cuddles* You so could! If I left you alone now - you could write 100s of words

so where's the description?

[xx-squish-xx.livejournal.com]

nah, my brain is tired now. Today was my early day, so it just can't handle much. Maybe tomorrow night though.

Quit tryin to trick me into showing you the whole fic, woman! ;)

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

Darn! My plan has been exposed!

[xx-squish-xx.livejournal.com]

So here's a question. Are there pairings that you have difficulty writing (in a fic that's specifically about them) because you think there are very few ways to legitimately get them together?

For me, the answer is yes. And Jayne/Zoe is definitely one of them. I can only see the connection happening in a very few ways and those have been done (even in the SMALL number of J/Z fics there are), so it's hard not to just write the same thing. Creativity is lacking for me with this pairing! lol

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

I agree that Z/J would be especially hard, because unlike the other pairings it's pretty hard to re-interpret pre-BDM.

I know many of the ways they can get together has been done, but that's only a problem in your mind. It's how you interpret your way, that matters. Most stories have already been done, it's the interpretation that differs. Also I think there's always a different slant and perspective on every situation which writers (hopefully) can provide.

Other pairings I have difficulty in seeing would be Mal/River; and it's not really the age difference or Inara there; it's a whole host of things :D

[xx-squish-xx.livejournal.com]

I definitely agree about the Mal/River. They are hard to imagine them legitimately going from their very (imho) platonic relationship to something more. But, oddly enough, I could envision a world where Joss might have taken them there (you know in the 7th season after everyone else was dead and River was more mature and at least somewhat more stable). Ah, but I babble...

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

*sighs* for the 7th season or even the 2nd one!