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[bluflamingo]

There are people who write stories and stay in control of the plot and the characters and everything while they do it, right? Cos I need someone to teach me that.

Not least because the John/Cam rare pairings fic I'm working on is showing alarming signs of turning into John/Cam/Holland, which... I know it's rare pairings, but that's (a) kind of stupidly rare and (b) not actually what the prompt is.

Holland was supposed to be a five line 'here's why things are different' character, not keep turning up!

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[slybrarian]

*cackles*

I would try to offer advice, but honestly I don't always have much luck with keeping them under control and I'm kinda cheering Holland on here. What is the prompt, anyways?

[bluflamingo]

I dragged them back on track in the end, to my amazement. Mostly because it would have added another 5000 words to a story that's already 9000 and not exactly close to finishing.

What is the prompt, anyways?

John/Cam, worth the risk. Which doesn't exactly scream 'random threesome'

[slybrarian]

Heh, yeah, I suppose that doesn't really lend itself to random threesomes. Holland should just be glad that he's apparently alive enough to be talking.

[bluflamingo]

he's very grateful to be alive, and demonstrating it by teasing John to death about having a crush on Cam.

[dossier]

Depends. If I have a character driving the keyboard, it's sometimes a better idea than what I plotted, so I just let the story be steered. I can't tell you how many time Sheppard/Lorne tried to divert East/West, and I had to keep slapping them down. Usually, if I really have to stick with plot, I will not write any reaction or 'emotional content', but get the plot down, and then go back and figure out what the reactions are to the existing story line.

[bluflamingo]

I can't tell you how many time Sheppard/Lorne tried to divert East/West, and I had to keep slapping them down.

Oh, I thought that was just me reading into something that wasn't there - I was so sure when they started the pilgrimage that Sheppard and Lorne would end up together.

[dossier]

hee! It was one of those forks in the road that I pondered over for weeks, but in the end I decided to keep Sheppard separate and essentially alone. It would have been a vastly different story if I'd let them drag me there.