(Sorry for the long lag in replying; I've been having all manner of adventures with my internet going out at home.)
Review makes the fic.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And you've actually managed to hit on almost everything I was really going for, when I write it – I think as parlance would have it, that makes you my ideal reader. :) One of the first, big reasons I wanted to write this fic was to make a story in which the team really had to earn their miracles, and the big miraculous things that happened has consequences, too. Consequences that weren't just brushed aside. I always feel, when I see things happen that way in fiction, that they're really just cheapening the miracle and struggle itself, which just hamstrings the tension and emotional arcs.
I write non-linearly, which means that I hop back and forth and write bits of scenes here and there and edit as I go, adding and subtracting, and I discovered that this is the sort of fic where that really works – I can go back any time and slip references to later chapters into earlier ones, as they're forming. When I came back to finish working on the story, after a couple-year-long hiatus, I had great fun finding all the bits where I'd managed to slip in callbacks and Chekov's guns and oblique foreshadowing. (I think my favorite still has to be Jack's constant prophetic grousing, like noting that no one had issued them personal dosimeters or reminiscing about Carter blowing up a sun.) Now if I could just figure out how to replicate that sort of plotting in anything else I write....
All of the characters were such a joy to write, even when they occasionally got it into their heads to drag the story off in a completely different direction that I'd planned for it. (Daniel was the worst at this. Eulogy and Polaris would have been one much shorter chapter if it weren't for him, and the entire philosophical arc was pretty entirely his fault.) But working all of their little biting quirks together, finding where they caught or amplified each other. Again, I wish I could work with casts that nuanced in everything I write.
I have to admit, I spent a ridiculous amount of time doing research for the work, and I'm still not certain how much is even vaguely right. (For one thing, it's rather difficult to find any information on how much sheer radiation it would take to vaporize a person. I feel like it's not one of those things that really ever comes up. In reality. Y'know.)
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Date: 2011-04-12 02:38 pm (UTC)Review makes the fic.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And you've actually managed to hit on almost everything I was really going for, when I write it – I think as parlance would have it, that makes you my ideal reader. :) One of the first, big reasons I wanted to write this fic was to make a story in which the team really had to earn their miracles, and the big miraculous things that happened has consequences, too. Consequences that weren't just brushed aside. I always feel, when I see things happen that way in fiction, that they're really just cheapening the miracle and struggle itself, which just hamstrings the tension and emotional arcs.
I write non-linearly, which means that I hop back and forth and write bits of scenes here and there and edit as I go, adding and subtracting, and I discovered that this is the sort of fic where that really works – I can go back any time and slip references to later chapters into earlier ones, as they're forming. When I came back to finish working on the story, after a couple-year-long hiatus, I had great fun finding all the bits where I'd managed to slip in callbacks and Chekov's guns and oblique foreshadowing. (I think my favorite still has to be Jack's constant prophetic grousing, like noting that no one had issued them personal dosimeters or reminiscing about Carter blowing up a sun.) Now if I could just figure out how to replicate that sort of plotting in anything else I write....
All of the characters were such a joy to write, even when they occasionally got it into their heads to drag the story off in a completely different direction that I'd planned for it. (Daniel was the worst at this. Eulogy and Polaris would have been one much shorter chapter if it weren't for him, and the entire philosophical arc was pretty entirely his fault.) But working all of their little biting quirks together, finding where they caught or amplified each other. Again, I wish I could work with casts that nuanced in everything I write.
I have to admit, I spent a ridiculous amount of time doing research for the work, and I'm still not certain how much is even vaguely right. (For one thing, it's rather difficult to find any information on how much sheer radiation it would take to vaporize a person. I feel like it's not one of those things that really ever comes up. In reality. Y'know.)
But anyway. Thank you again!