Stop it.

[ankh]

If so many episodes of SG-1 are riddled with holes and lacking in the things I enjoy most (friendship and caring as examples), why do I continue to write fic trying to fix them? They can't be fixed. They were lacking to begin with and nothing I can write can change that fact. I can write everyone giving a crap about injured/missing/distraught team member X, but if my screen showed them not giving a shit, why bother inserting my version of what should have happened? Why not just start afresh to begin with?

I think I'm trying to figure out why I'm hanging on to so many WiP episode tags and rewrites. It's overwhelming. I found three more on my laptop that I'd forgotten about. I just need to throw away the duct tape, forget the cracked episodes, and go with the shiny new stuff I could be writing instead.

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Yes, there was most definitely a certain satisfaction when writing 'fix it fic'. Perhaps part of why I'm not feeling that now is because the show has moved on from what initially attracted me; I'm, essentially, fixing something I'm not that invested in emotionally, so the Band-Aids aren't sticking and the stitches are sloppy, assuming I ever get beyond bathing the wounds in the first place. I could be writing about seasons 1-3 SG-1 and instead I'm trying to figure out why the team never mentions Jack, or why Jack isn't there in key moments for his former team mates when I believed they were as close as a family.

Oh, and rest assured the starting afresh would involve writng Daniel and team. Despite numerous bumps and lumps, I still love them and any plot bunnies invariably involve them.