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[elly427]

The problem I'm having with BSG fic is everything I think to write has already been written, and better than I could have done.

I'm very dissatisfied with pretty much everything I've written lately. I'm bored with a lot of the SG1 stuff I've left hanging (and I'm not convinced anyone is still reading SG1 anyway) and I haven't seen enough of BSG to have any sort of feel for the characters yet.

I forget that when I stumbled into the Stargate fandom there were six years of canon to educate me and to help me get a feel for the characters. It was okay to have not seen everything, because after six years a lot of stuff was extraneous and TPTB had forgotten about it themselves. BSG has what, 16 hours total? and I keep feeling like it's critical to know it all before I can write anything.

And hell, SG fandom has been very, very nice to me and I am intimidating myself out of writing anything for any show period. Ugh. I hate when I get like this.

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[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I still read SG1 fic. Of course, I'm highly selective about it. I only read Telkena if I want to kill brain cells and feel crappy about how many people love her.

*flops* And I want more ellyfic. *looks pitiful*

Also, er, SG1 is very hard to write new things for because everything has been done before.

[elly427.livejournal.com]

See, I find SG1 less difficult that BSG. I think BSG offeres a limited number of potential plots because there's so little to explore because it's only been around for a bit. And, I feel BSG has attracted better writers, so I'm less willing to rewrite plot scenarios because most of the obvious ones have already been done, and done well.

And Telkena? *facepalms* I *heart* SG1 fandom. We're all kooks.