Author's Notes for "Just Desserts"
Sep. 27th, 2009 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starwatcher_fic.
Written for SentinelSecrets, to the prompt, "He couldn't even begin to understand what he'd done to deserve this." As our moderator said, "Oh my, the images, connotations..." And I so agree. I had visions of pitched gun-battles, or Jim embroiled in a major entanglement of Blair's devising, and eventually one or the other of them would utter those fateful words. But nothing 'clicked'; I don't write action. I even had an idea for a hot-n-heavy slash story! Maybe I'll work on it someday, but the idea of writing my first slash story to a deadline was a definite nuh-uh.
Finally, with barely two weeks to deadline, I caught a flash of Simon staring across the desk at Jim and Blair, wondering what on earth he'd done to have to deal with this. My muse liked that idea, and we were off and running. My first Simon-centric fic, and I did have fun with it. Simon has more facets than some fans give him credit for; I really enjoyed writing grumpy-captain-with-a-soft-center. The man tries to cover it up with his bark, but it's obvious he cares for both of Jim and Blair. As captain, he could have been hard-nosed, kicked Blair out, told Jim to sink or swim... but he didn't. That proves it, in my book.
I've been amazed, ever since the first of these challenges, at the variety of stories that come from the same prompt; it's so interesting to see the different directions that each author follows. It occurs to me that you might also be interested to see the amazing range that our Sentinel authors produce. So, I invite you to visit --
The Best Medicine by Fluterbev (gen)
Inheritance by Tommyboybbi (gen)
If At First... by Maaaaa (gen)
Revelations by Snycock (slash PG-13)
Balance by Spikedluv (slash NC-17)
.
Written for SentinelSecrets, to the prompt, "He couldn't even begin to understand what he'd done to deserve this." As our moderator said, "Oh my, the images, connotations..." And I so agree. I had visions of pitched gun-battles, or Jim embroiled in a major entanglement of Blair's devising, and eventually one or the other of them would utter those fateful words. But nothing 'clicked'; I don't write action. I even had an idea for a hot-n-heavy slash story! Maybe I'll work on it someday, but the idea of writing my first slash story to a deadline was a definite nuh-uh.
Finally, with barely two weeks to deadline, I caught a flash of Simon staring across the desk at Jim and Blair, wondering what on earth he'd done to have to deal with this. My muse liked that idea, and we were off and running. My first Simon-centric fic, and I did have fun with it. Simon has more facets than some fans give him credit for; I really enjoyed writing grumpy-captain-with-a-soft-center. The man tries to cover it up with his bark, but it's obvious he cares for both of Jim and Blair. As captain, he could have been hard-nosed, kicked Blair out, told Jim to sink or swim... but he didn't. That proves it, in my book.
I've been amazed, ever since the first of these challenges, at the variety of stories that come from the same prompt; it's so interesting to see the different directions that each author follows. It occurs to me that you might also be interested to see the amazing range that our Sentinel authors produce. So, I invite you to visit --
The Best Medicine by Fluterbev (gen)
Inheritance by Tommyboybbi (gen)
If At First... by Maaaaa (gen)
Revelations by Snycock (slash PG-13)
Balance by Spikedluv (slash NC-17)
.