Fic plans!
Jun. 1st, 2014 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladybug_archiveMy Mannix chapter finally decided to be done. After I decided to combine another idea, I realized how to make the chapter feel more full and I got it up. And with the inspiration of the second idea, the second chapter got written and posted now too.
I hope I can carry this fic through to completion. I also want to finish the Dutch Ingram fic, but it's being a little more of a puzzle. And my song challenge is moving swimmingly; I have forty prompts left out of a hundred! That's the farthest I've ever got on a 100-prompt challenge. I'm writing at my own pace, with some fics long and some short, and it's just lovely.
Then I got an idea for a Maverick fic. Beau Maverick puzzles me a bit, as does his relationship with cousin Bart. While it's always perfectly easy to tell that Bret and Bart care about each other, in spite of their barbs and occasional tricks, somehow I find it more difficult to tell about Bart and Beau (even though I'm sure they care too).
So I got an idea rife with family hurt/comfort. Beau tackles Bart out of the path of a bullet and is hit instead. Bart is horrified and upset, especially when it turns out to be a very bad hit and Beau isn't really expected to survive. He sends for Bret and is determined to find the shooter. And while they alternately search for the guy and check on Beau, Beau has astral-projected and is wandering about, observing the other two while unable to make contact.
I'm not sure when I'll start on that one, or if I can carry it through to completion. I found Bret's voice and have an unfinished fic with him, but I haven't ever tried writing for the other two. Yes, I'm aware that Bret and Bart had pretty much the same speech pattern in scripts and James Garner could pick which brother he wanted to be, but they still seem different to me, I imagine because of the actors' great talents.
Another question is what to do about the fourth relation, Brent. Brought in after Roger Moore quit, Robert Colbert only played Brent for two episodes. Both the name and his get-up were definite, deliberate callbacks to James Garner, whose departure really killed the series. Even though I like Roger Moore, I agree that most of his scripts were way below James Garner's in quality and uniqueness, and I don't blame him for quitting.
So ... since Warner Brothers was just grasping at straws and Brent was really supposed to be identical to Bret (something Robert Colbert was aware of and worried about), I wonder whether to just ignore the character's existence. I haven't seen either of his episodes and am not even sure whether he is a brother or a cousin. I've heard both. If he's a brother, it's a total ret-con, because they were very clear earlier that there were only two brothers. And even though Beau is mentioned in the later attempts at reviving the series in the 1970s, Brent is not. It seems Warner Brothers realized how stupid the move was and they wanted to forget, too.
On the other hand, I hate to ignore any legitimate character's existence. So it is a dilemma.
I hope I can carry this fic through to completion. I also want to finish the Dutch Ingram fic, but it's being a little more of a puzzle. And my song challenge is moving swimmingly; I have forty prompts left out of a hundred! That's the farthest I've ever got on a 100-prompt challenge. I'm writing at my own pace, with some fics long and some short, and it's just lovely.
Then I got an idea for a Maverick fic. Beau Maverick puzzles me a bit, as does his relationship with cousin Bart. While it's always perfectly easy to tell that Bret and Bart care about each other, in spite of their barbs and occasional tricks, somehow I find it more difficult to tell about Bart and Beau (even though I'm sure they care too).
So I got an idea rife with family hurt/comfort. Beau tackles Bart out of the path of a bullet and is hit instead. Bart is horrified and upset, especially when it turns out to be a very bad hit and Beau isn't really expected to survive. He sends for Bret and is determined to find the shooter. And while they alternately search for the guy and check on Beau, Beau has astral-projected and is wandering about, observing the other two while unable to make contact.
I'm not sure when I'll start on that one, or if I can carry it through to completion. I found Bret's voice and have an unfinished fic with him, but I haven't ever tried writing for the other two. Yes, I'm aware that Bret and Bart had pretty much the same speech pattern in scripts and James Garner could pick which brother he wanted to be, but they still seem different to me, I imagine because of the actors' great talents.
Another question is what to do about the fourth relation, Brent. Brought in after Roger Moore quit, Robert Colbert only played Brent for two episodes. Both the name and his get-up were definite, deliberate callbacks to James Garner, whose departure really killed the series. Even though I like Roger Moore, I agree that most of his scripts were way below James Garner's in quality and uniqueness, and I don't blame him for quitting.
So ... since Warner Brothers was just grasping at straws and Brent was really supposed to be identical to Bret (something Robert Colbert was aware of and worried about), I wonder whether to just ignore the character's existence. I haven't seen either of his episodes and am not even sure whether he is a brother or a cousin. I've heard both. If he's a brother, it's a total ret-con, because they were very clear earlier that there were only two brothers. And even though Beau is mentioned in the later attempts at reviving the series in the 1970s, Brent is not. It seems Warner Brothers realized how stupid the move was and they wanted to forget, too.
On the other hand, I hate to ignore any legitimate character's existence. So it is a dilemma.
