Inspiration is damned inconvenient, sometimes.

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For example, when forty wives of Methos turn up in your head at half past four in the morning, insisting their stories be told, and told *now*. All I really wanted to do was sleep.

This is why I usually prefer to work without inspiration, even if it doesn't get me six pages of notes in twenty minutes.

Has somebody already done this, btw? A story about *all* of Methos' wives? Not that I could stop writing now, this thing is frelling insistent - but I'd like to know if I'm treading familiar ground. It's a bit of an experiment (again), but it's a very *obvious* experiment, so I wouldn't be surprised if somebody thought of it before me.

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You're the author of the week here ;-)

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That is to say, I'm reading your stuff now, and it's Good Stuff. (But quite a few typos in some of the stories - it's "Seacouver", not "Seacover", for example - nothing really bad, but a beta, or even just yourself giving it another close look, would probably be a good idea.)

"Alien Corn" is very striking, but I'm a bit too stupid for it, I think. I'll reread it a couple of times, though. Maybe I was just too tired when I first read it. Loved a lot of the images in it; just felt like I was missing part of the meaning or the plot or something. I'll see what I can read between the lines, next time.

Loved "Such a Grave Joy" (heh... so we've both killed Methos! We kill what we love, eh?)

Loved "Fugue 68", although the ending, of course, does not quite work for me, as Duncan/Methos *still* somehow goes very much against something inside me, grr arrgh. (Oddly enough I'm fine with it if it's done the way you did it in "Alien Corn". The only slash I like is twisted slash? Hm. Perhaps. Or, no. I dunno.) Anyway, no fault of the story, but a fault of mine, rather. And my own 68 wives story will be sufficiently different, I think.

And that's all I've read so far. Expect more feedback... sometime, when the Catalan archaeologists give me some peace. Probably in a couple of weeks, when I get around to sending *everybody* whose stuff I've read in the last couple of weeks feedback, in order to prepare for updating my recs page for the first time in five years or so. (You'll be on it.) Possibly after Leeds.

Re: You're the author of the week here ;-)

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No. Go away. I can't bear it. There are so few of these pieces of work I actually like any more. And to have you read them...