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Fic: Untitled (SN, gen, G)

Aug 24, 2004 00:11

Title: Untitled
Author: Littera Abactor
Fandom: Sports Night
Pairing: None
Rating: G
Feedback: All kinds welcomed with effusive - nay, embarrassing - gratitude.

( Wherein Dana plots murder, Natalie plots revenge, and Danny just plots. Poor Casey. )

fic, sn

Comments 24

zebra363 October 19 2004, 06:01:49 UTC

Hi. Gen SN isn't quite my drug of choice, but I enjoyed this. The bread-cheese-boxers storyline was good and I liked these lines in particular:

she had faith in a few things in this life, among them that she'd never please her mother, that Casey would never really want her, and that Danny would never lose track of Casey.

On what planet was a television producer regularly out-thought by anchors? On no planet.

"She couldn't know how often you use boxers as outerwear in this job."

Funny close, too. I wonder how long it took Dan to come up with that - seconds, probably.

littera_abactor October 20 2004, 15:44:06 UTC

Ooo. Thank you. I don't feel like this story is quite ready to be exposed to, you know, people, so I've never posted it to any of the SN/TWW communities. Hence, you're the only feedback I've ever gotten on it. (It's not ready because it needs a beta. I have no idea if what I was actually trying to communicate came through here, for example.)

I'm glad you liked those lines; one, in particular, I've flirted with cutting from the story because I thought it didn't work. You have now saved it from the Blue Pencil of Death.

And I, myself, believe that Dan spent much of the day coming up with boxer-related lines. Just because he's evil that way. But he probably could have come up with them in seconds, too.

In general: thanks for commenting; the very fact that you read it to the end gave me hope for this mutant story. Perhaps I will someday get the courage either to ask for a beta or to post this story on a community.

this is awesome zebra363 November 22 2004, 04:37:49 UTC

The recetionist just asked why I look so happy this Monday morning, and it's because I was just getting over my hysterical laughter about this story. You should post it where more people can see it!

Caroline (fifty7.diaryland.com)

Re: this is awesome littera_abactor November 27 2004, 21:18:27 UTC

Thanks! It still has to be beta-read - I just found a beta for it - so it isn't ready to debut anywhere but here. But I'm so, so glad you liked it; that was wonderful to hear.

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littera_abactor November 27 2004, 21:20:05 UTC

And of course Natalie had to steal their pants, because what else could she do?

Exactly. Sometimes you just have to steal someone's pants. We've all been there.

I'm so glad you liked this, and thanks for letting me know - and for recommending it! I'm amazed and flattered.

threequarters November 22 2004, 13:21:37 UTC

This was great. The dialog was spot on. Dan was hilarious, Natalie was just so Natalie, and poor Dana, trying to keep it all together. This was absolutely hysterical. I have a 14 hour drive to make today and you can be sure this will have me laughing the whole way.

littera_abactor November 27 2004, 21:34:45 UTC

Thank you so much - for reading it, and for giving feedback, and then for having it be such wonderful feedback.

(And I hope your drive wasn't awful.)

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littera_abactor November 27 2004, 21:38:33 UTC

Glad you liked it; I've loved your SN stories.

And I was stunned to find myself writing entirely from Dana's point of view and in her voice, but it worked so much better than all the half-finished stories I have from Casey's or Danny's.

Huh. Maybe I'll try Jeremy's point of view next.

(And I'm glad you liked the Bad Moon Rising line, and seriously glad you picked it out of all of them. I became unreasonably attached to it during the writing of this; it was the line I re-read when I felt like I was losing the voice. You're right that it's more Danny than Dana, though.)

celli November 22 2004, 20:56:29 UTC

*dies laughing* Oh my God. Casey's going to kill Dan as soon as they go to break for that intro. I love this!

littera_abactor November 27 2004, 21:44:28 UTC

The only question is which of them is going to be more fit for anchoring after they come back from that break: Casey, despite his dark red flush and aching desire to throttle Dan, followed by everyone in the control room, after which his crime spree would probably branch out to the people who manufactured the boxers in the first place, or Dan, even though he'd be verging on hysterical laughter and planning yet more ways to irritate Casey.

Lucky Dana. She's going to have such a fun evening with those two. And it's going to take at least two drinks after the show before Casey admits that it really was funny, and another one before he starts laughing about it.

(Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for reading it!)