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Beth (the 'Mac' is silent) ([personal profile] lolmac) wrote2003-08-29 12:00 pm
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je suis collaborateur

Or maybe that should be 'collaborateuse'?

As most folks know, I've been editing and betaing for [info]Lothi since about five minutes after I snuck into the Mac-verse (after picking a lock on a back entry).  We've talked occasionally about actually collaborating, and ironically enough, we have finally done so -- not on MacGyver, but on The Man From UNCLE, Lothi's current new passion.  Specifically, she started working on a mildly AU gapfiller to an episode with a rather lame ending -- okay, a totally lame ending -- and I ended up inviting myself along for the ride, so to speak.

Act I of "The Matriphobia Affair" is posted here on ff.net, or you can read it with pretty screen caps here on Lothi's LJ.  Act II is under construction.

(Actually, Act I takes place during Act II of the original episode, and Act II will be set towards the end of Act IV.  Did everyone get that?  There will be a test later on.)

The story could also be called Illya's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.  In other words, whumpage.

The actual collaboration part was a treat.  Now that I think of it, Lothi and I have been working together for over two years -- and I originally wangled my way into her good graces because the quality of her writing had struck me so powerfully when I first encountered it.  (Smacked me right between the eyes, it did.)  Her influence got me to dare to write again, and there's a nice note in this of coming full circle.

Just as long as I get another ride around the merry-go-round!  I refuse to get off!

And no fear -- this hasn't prevented me from continuing to make progress on my current Mac story.  I'm currently working on this stack of books from the library . . . and taking a couple of the books, and my writing, with me on vacation next week.  Heck, the last time I went on vacation, I came back with several fat sassy plot bunnies, one of which grew up and became Revision.

'Beth
August 2009

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/idlewild_/ 2009-08-31 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to have to delay gratification... grrr... that's no fun!

Will be out of town for the next week anyway, after which I may give in to temptation and rearrange my queue. Or just go on a viewing binge until I catch up. Because... a story I can't read yet? It calls out to me! Read me... read me...