Title: Necessary Sacrifices 3/6
Fandom: SG1
Characters: All of them
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Word Count: 53,110
Warnings/Spoilers: Mentions of episodes through the 4th Season
Disclaimer: Fanfic, for fun, not profit.
Summary/Notes: Col. Jack O'Neill blacks out the base and then promptly disappears. What is Jack planning and what is he willing to sacrifice in order to accomplish that plan? Can the team find Jack before it's too late? What if it's already too late?

Necessary Sacrifices: Part 1 -- Part 2 -- ( Part 3 )

Title: Necessary Sacrifices 1/6
Fandom: SG1
Characters: All of them
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Word Count: 53,110
Warnings/Spoilers: Mentions of episodes through the 4th Season
Disclaimer: Fanfic, for fun, not profit.
Summary/Notes: Col. Jack O'Neill blacks out the base and then promptly disappears. What is Jack planning and what is he willing to sacrifice in order to accomplish that plan? Can the team find Jack before it's too late? What if it's already too late?

Necessary Sacrifices: ( Part 1 )

Title: A Sure Thing
Fandom: SG1
Characters: Sam Carter, Jack O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Word Count:
Warnings/Spoilers:
Disclaimer: Fanfic, for fun, not profit.
Notes: I must thank my wonderful beta-readers finabair and amilyn. This fic wouldn't be half what it is without them, and any errors you find are mine that I put in without their knowledge or over their objections. All hail, JennJenn and Amy!

( Jack routinely drops impossible tasks on Sam's shoulders and walks away. Sometimes it doesn't even seem that he cares enough to watch to see if she can pull it off. )

All in all, I'm not unhappy with the fic. I just keep thinking that a better way to do it would be to do a series of scenes with Carter playing pool. One from each season or so. That way her changes in attitude, confidence and friendships could be shown through her actions at the pool table: how she bets, how she views the people watching her, how the pool playing regulars treat her, how all that changes over the years. That scenario keeps getting in the way of me really liking this piece. Weird, but true. This one feels like to separate stories mashed together with one a weak connecting through line. I love bits of it, but I'm still not sure the whole thing works.

In the end, though, I like that I could write Carter at all, even in this short piece.

This was written for the SamCarter Ficathon over at samcarterfic. They had some very good fic, including Just Another Day at the Office which was written for me. skydiver119 did a terrific job. All hail skydiver119.

I signed up to do a Sam Carter fic thinking that the assignment I get will give me the plot, all I have to do is write it. It’d be fun playing in the SG1 universe. However, the assignment really didn’t give me a plot at all. Instead, it listed a couple of requirements that would happily fit any fic I’d write: Team interaction, Sam as scientist and soldier, a little action, a little humor, no ship, no bad endings. There is no plot in that. Now, I have come up with a dozen different ideas, but none have any teeth. When I start writing them, they don’t even give me a scene!

I know what the problem is, too. I just don’t understand Sam. I love the character, mind, but I don’t understand her. To be honest, I have a really hard time understand most female characters on television, which is why I always write the guys.

Without an understanding of the character, I have no story, no flesh to hang on my skeleton of a plot, no reason for the characters to do anything at all. I need a plot to have a story, but I need character motivations to have a plot.

So, in an attempt to figure out how to write this story, I give you Sam Carter as I see her:( cut for those not interested in Sam )

I know all these things, but I don’t know why she is all these things. Why did she want to be an astronaut? To explore, to help humanity, to see Earth from orbit? Why does she stay a soldier when she is so obviously perfect for being a scientist? What is her center, what keeps her going, what stopped her from “settling” for Pete? What are her insecurities? What holds her back? More importantly, what drives her?

I know what drives Jack, Daniel and Teal’c. I even know what drives Jonas and Cameron. But what drives Sam? A thirst for knowledge? A drive to succeed? A quest to explore? A promise to someone or herself?

This is the key to writing Sam (or any character) and I’m completely missing it.

My thoughts while watching Babylon. ( Cut for those who just don't care )

He's perpetually perky.

He's obnoxiously optimistic.

He's intentionally oblivious.

And he's subtly sneaky.

Did I mention that he's perky?

How can you not like him?

Perky next to O'Neill is great!

Deep Discount DVD must be gearing up for the Christmas season because SG1 Season Four has just arrived

Yee Haw!

Window of Opportunity here I come. Plus many more episodes I haven't seen.

Yay, Me! Yay, Myr! Yay, Wil (although he's only on season one)

However, my bank just so graciously "upgraded" our check cards from Visa to MasterCard. This means I need to go and re-enter the cards in all the places that automatically deduct from our account.

That sucks.

But..... YAY for season four!

Title: A Bird in the Hand
Fandom: SG1
Characters: Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, Daniel Jackson, Teal'c
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: Fanfic, for fun, not profit.
Notes: In an effort to actually write something, I sat down and wrote myself this little fic. It was one of those "keep writing until it's finished" things. It really has no plot, as it's just a character/introspective piece.

( Jack did one last circle of the camp, checking the perimeter one final time. )


ETA:
The whole "write until your done thing" is hard for me and doesn't always produce good writing. This was edited and betaed and made readable by more work than my first sentence implied. Therefor: I need to add thanks to my betas from the Jackfic list over on yahoo: Rodlox and JoleneB, if this fic is any good it is due in no small part to them. Thanks!

And to Amy, too!