Fic, or lack thereof

[innocent_lex]

What is it about some shows that spawn a thousand fic writers and others that just don't? Is it the characters? The writing? The need to fill in things that the show's writers haven't bothered to address? It's hard to miss all the SG-1 and SGA fic out there, but look for NCIS or Without A Trace and there's very little. Are those shows too perfect, the characters not interesting enough or is it that scifi tends to attract writers? (though that doesn't explain Harry Potter fans).

At this point I should mention I don't read het. It just doesn't interest me as a story. So when I talk about there being very little to read, it's possible there is het fic out there that I skip over due to complete lack of interest.

It takes me a while to get to know a show enough to want to write for it, and much, much longer to get around to actually writing. I'm in the middle of an NCIS/SG-1 crossover at the moment (well, 'in the middle' meaning I've started) as well as another SG-1 story, but there is an urge to write WAT and some pure NCIS. Also maybe a bit of West Wing. And Man From Uncle because that would be oodles of fun *g*. Still, if the world was peopled with lots of mes then there would be not a great deal of fic out there at all.

So anyway, just musing, wondering, pondering.

Comments

[lachli.livejournal.com]

I'm hopeless at telling people why I think stories are good *g*, but I'm more than happy to share what I've enjoyed and which authors I favoured.

I'm assuming you found www.dannyandmartin.com . Some of my favourites on there are A Long Time Coming, an au, which I don't usually like, but I loved this one so much. http://www.dannyandmartin.com/viewstory.php?sid=279 and all her stories, she's very talented. She writes loads of Atlantis fics too I believe.

http://www.dannyandmartin.com/viewuser.php?uid=24 is another writer that I loved to read.

http://www.dannyandmartin.com/viewuser.php?uid=87 has written one of my all time favourites http://www.dannyandmartin.com/viewstory.php?sid=298 I literally cried laughing during it. She has a wicked sense of humour and some of Danny's comments about Sam are so naughty, but funny. I totally adore this. Oh and the whole scene in the bathroom where Martin has to wear leather trousers, wow, hot! http://www.dannyandmartin.com/viewstory.php?sid=322 is a Danny that I thought I would hate, working as a rent boy, but I loved it.
This is a list of nominees for some D/M fanfic awards a few years back.
http://community.livejournal.com/dmfanficawards/1071.html#cutid1


http://community.livejournal.com/operation_pi/profile is an lj devoted to one fic, told in diary style and it's really quite amazing, made me laugh and cry.

I hope you like D/M because that's all I ever really read, anything with Sam made me hurl and there was very little gen to be found.

Hope you like these and that there may be a new one or two that you've not seen before.

[innocent-lex.livejournal.com]

Snap on the aesc-fic! Have you read Lori's fic?

[nialla]

Yes, I'm definitely a Danny/Martin girl. I seem to have a thing about having "contrasting personalities" in my slash pairings. I guess I like the banter that can happen, and if they go to far and actually argue, then there's the fun of making up. ;)

Thanks for the recs, I'll be bookmarking those for later reading.

I know what you mean about not being able to say "why" you liked something. It's very hard to explain why something works for you. It's even more difficult to explain why a much-lauded author/story doesn't work for you. It just does or it doesn't, and that's about all that can be said sometimes.