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Okay, I was going to go to bed. I got distracted by Sunshine Days: Five Things That Never Happened to Sam Seaborn by cgb. It's very good. Go read it if you haven't yet.
As I've sent my Sam Seaborn 5 Things fic off to beta, it's pretty much finished, so I decided to read cgb's fic. I didn't want to read it first because a) I'd get scared off by a damn good writer doing stuff I wanted to do better than I could, and b) I didn't want to read someone else's ideas before I got mine straight in my head.
As it turns out, I'm so very glad I waited until now to read it. I mean, the 3rd, 4th and 5th sections are stories that I never would have come up with or considered. The 2nd section deals with a turning point in Sam's history (the Kensington Oil deal), as does my second section. On the good side, it's done in a very different way, and with different results, but still, highly similar theme.
However, her first section? All about Sam as a kid, and his mom finding out about his Dad's affair. Wanna take a guess at what my first section was? All about Sam as a kid, and his mom finding out about his Dad's affair.
Seriously, how much of a coincidence is that?
It's just highly intriguing that even though we wrote not even communicating with each other, not even knowing each other personally, our first two sections are highly similar. Her's has already been published online and was finished a couple weeks ago, but I remember posting that first section on LJ when I first had the idea for a 5 Things fic a couple months ago. These two ideas have come up in two minds, at roughly the same time, without one person having any influence over the other.
I guess it comes down to the fact that there are some definite turning points in each character's history. Therefore, any author of a 5 Things fic will be tempted to play with these events, because these are the events that had the greatest effect on the character's life. It makes it intriguing that all of the SV 5 Things fics are so very original and different, but that might have more do with the fact that SV is a (dodgy) sci-fi show, so almost anything is possible. As a show, WW is far more grounded in reality, so the AUs are less adventurous, and closer to canon. Either that, or SV writers in general are just happier to think outside the box. *g*
As I've sent my Sam Seaborn 5 Things fic off to beta, it's pretty much finished, so I decided to read cgb's fic. I didn't want to read it first because a) I'd get scared off by a damn good writer doing stuff I wanted to do better than I could, and b) I didn't want to read someone else's ideas before I got mine straight in my head.
As it turns out, I'm so very glad I waited until now to read it. I mean, the 3rd, 4th and 5th sections are stories that I never would have come up with or considered. The 2nd section deals with a turning point in Sam's history (the Kensington Oil deal), as does my second section. On the good side, it's done in a very different way, and with different results, but still, highly similar theme.
However, her first section? All about Sam as a kid, and his mom finding out about his Dad's affair. Wanna take a guess at what my first section was? All about Sam as a kid, and his mom finding out about his Dad's affair.
Seriously, how much of a coincidence is that?
It's just highly intriguing that even though we wrote not even communicating with each other, not even knowing each other personally, our first two sections are highly similar. Her's has already been published online and was finished a couple weeks ago, but I remember posting that first section on LJ when I first had the idea for a 5 Things fic a couple months ago. These two ideas have come up in two minds, at roughly the same time, without one person having any influence over the other.
I guess it comes down to the fact that there are some definite turning points in each character's history. Therefore, any author of a 5 Things fic will be tempted to play with these events, because these are the events that had the greatest effect on the character's life. It makes it intriguing that all of the SV 5 Things fics are so very original and different, but that might have more do with the fact that SV is a (dodgy) sci-fi show, so almost anything is possible. As a show, WW is far more grounded in reality, so the AUs are less adventurous, and closer to canon. Either that, or SV writers in general are just happier to think outside the box. *g*
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After that, Mum will be down, so I won't be spending as much time online anyway. *g*
I hope you're not going to lose your Spamtastic crown!!
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Just sent back the betaed third and fourth parts - as ever, let me know if you don't get them.
Didn't get them. Also didn't get emailed this comment... I hope that's LJ related, not hotmail related.
Could you send it again?
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