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The first draft of the fic inspired by Kaze's prompt is done! I'll probably need to do a lot of work with it before it's ready for posting, but still, I'm thrilled. I really love how it looks!
And I need to decide whether I should split it up. It's a big one, nearly 10,000 words. I've easily posted oneshots that length before, but I always wonder if it bowls people over and if I shouldn't do it. I really hate splitting fics up if they aren't meant to be split, but if it turns people off if I don't, I probably should.
Today I had what I believe is my first Highway Patrol dream. I was writing a fic for the show in it and I was also watching the show. In real-life, I haven't ever written for it, but I did tweak a policeman's cameo in Will the Real Baby Face Please Stand Up? to be Dan Mathews, once I saw that it sounded like him.
Dan is the only regular character all the way through, but I've taken notice of one of the others who's fairly regular. The actor is William Boyett of Adam-12 fame, and he played Officer Johnson in the early seasons and Sergeant Williams later on. I was thinking I'd read he was only in twelve episodes as that character, and I was feeling sad thinking of him leaving, but I saw that I'd been mistaken. He's in 64 episodes throughout the entire show and he's there at the end. That pleases me; he's become a familiar, welcome face and I didn't want to say goodbye to his characters. If I ever do write for the show, he'll be there as well as Dan.
The only other exposure I've had to writing for Highway Patrol, more or less, is that at some points of writing for Lieutenant Schrank I wasn't sure whether I was channeling him or Dan Mathews into the fic. Dan is also a tough and gruff policeman, but he isn't as jaded as Schrank is. Sometimes I was hearing his voice in my head as I wrote and read over what I'd written. I had to go watch Schrank's scenes to hear Simon Oakland instead.
The first season of Highway Patrol is on Hulu. It's an awesome show; my favorite detective/crime series. And I talk about the show enough that I think it needs its own tag.
And I need to decide whether I should split it up. It's a big one, nearly 10,000 words. I've easily posted oneshots that length before, but I always wonder if it bowls people over and if I shouldn't do it. I really hate splitting fics up if they aren't meant to be split, but if it turns people off if I don't, I probably should.
Today I had what I believe is my first Highway Patrol dream. I was writing a fic for the show in it and I was also watching the show. In real-life, I haven't ever written for it, but I did tweak a policeman's cameo in Will the Real Baby Face Please Stand Up? to be Dan Mathews, once I saw that it sounded like him.
Dan is the only regular character all the way through, but I've taken notice of one of the others who's fairly regular. The actor is William Boyett of Adam-12 fame, and he played Officer Johnson in the early seasons and Sergeant Williams later on. I was thinking I'd read he was only in twelve episodes as that character, and I was feeling sad thinking of him leaving, but I saw that I'd been mistaken. He's in 64 episodes throughout the entire show and he's there at the end. That pleases me; he's become a familiar, welcome face and I didn't want to say goodbye to his characters. If I ever do write for the show, he'll be there as well as Dan.
The only other exposure I've had to writing for Highway Patrol, more or less, is that at some points of writing for Lieutenant Schrank I wasn't sure whether I was channeling him or Dan Mathews into the fic. Dan is also a tough and gruff policeman, but he isn't as jaded as Schrank is. Sometimes I was hearing his voice in my head as I wrote and read over what I'd written. I had to go watch Schrank's scenes to hear Simon Oakland instead.
The first season of Highway Patrol is on Hulu. It's an awesome show; my favorite detective/crime series. And I talk about the show enough that I think it needs its own tag.
