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Ha I’ve had this Kes/Shara next installment up as a draft on AO3 for like a week and a half and kept being about to push the button and publish it but I just wasn’t sure, it wasn’t really… completed in my head, I felt like I hadn’t really finished it. So I held off.
It had a cameo in it from a minor character who is in TFA, and part of my hesitation was that I just hadn’t put in the work for the backstory there, and i was debating about it. That’s the thing; you can’t just insert a character to fill a role if that character has no motive to be there besides executing a plot point. There’s got to be at least a vague notion about why they’d be there.
And then some tie-in novel came out that gave said minor canon character a bunch of backstory details and they actually make the whole story have a reason for existing apart from the little character study of Kes and Shara’s relationship that it was supposed to be, and it’s creepy as fuck how it worked out because I had no idea it was going to happen like that.
I mean, there are only so many ideas in the world, so it makes sense that they’d tie in well, but. I’m also really glad I didn’t publish it as-is, because it would have been annoyingly insta-Jossed, and also wouldn’t have been much of a story.
Ha I’ve had this Kes/Shara next installment up as a draft on AO3 for like a week and a half and kept being about to push the button and publish it but I just wasn’t sure, it wasn’t really… completed in my head, I felt like I hadn’t really finished it. So I held off.
It had a cameo in it from a minor character who is in TFA, and part of my hesitation was that I just hadn’t put in the work for the backstory there, and i was debating about it. That’s the thing; you can’t just insert a character to fill a role if that character has no motive to be there besides executing a plot point. There’s got to be at least a vague notion about why they’d be there.
And then some tie-in novel came out that gave said minor canon character a bunch of backstory details and they actually make the whole story have a reason for existing apart from the little character study of Kes and Shara’s relationship that it was supposed to be, and it’s creepy as fuck how it worked out because I had no idea it was going to happen like that.
I mean, there are only so many ideas in the world, so it makes sense that they’d tie in well, but. I’m also really glad I didn’t publish it as-is, because it would have been annoyingly insta-Jossed, and also wouldn’t have been much of a story.
