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Another Vorkosigan piece!
This piece was a whole lot easier to write than the previous one - for one, it didn't require any research. Well, I had to pull up the exact quote about the Investigatif Federale building, if only to check the spelling, but that wasn't too difficult (a quick ctrl-F through the e-book; how I love digital copies).
The quote about the chip being the most trivial - a direct lift from Miles, in Memory. I love that line so much that I just had to put it in. The horses snuck in too. Sneaky things. (All thanks to that line from Simon in Memory - "I can stay alive on a horse, but I don't recall its being what you would call a sybaritic pleasure. More in the masochistic line." And staying alive is a pretty high bar where it comes to riding - and what better way to learn it than under fire, chasing after a tiny Miles who rides like he was born on horseback? Heck, sometimes I think I learnt how to stay alive on a horse from crazy horses who took off with me without warning.)
I wonder whether I'm getting tired of writing action and adventure - I considered (briefly) whether I needed to have other-memory-chip-guy trying to kill Simon, and the thought of writing some high powered chase with a lot of explosions was extremely off-putting. I never used to shy away from writing high powered chases with a lot of explosions - what changed?
This fic was just downright fun. Simon's mumbled a few times in the books about taking the damn chip out, and I've always wondered whether he'd actually seriously considered the possibility. Probably not.
Come to think of it, I might need a break from all these serious-bizness fics for a while. I've been writing too many of these pieces with Epic Insights and what-have-you, and I fear they're all going to sound the same very soon.
This piece was a whole lot easier to write than the previous one - for one, it didn't require any research. Well, I had to pull up the exact quote about the Investigatif Federale building, if only to check the spelling, but that wasn't too difficult (a quick ctrl-F through the e-book; how I love digital copies).
The quote about the chip being the most trivial - a direct lift from Miles, in Memory. I love that line so much that I just had to put it in. The horses snuck in too. Sneaky things. (All thanks to that line from Simon in Memory - "I can stay alive on a horse, but I don't recall its being what you would call a sybaritic pleasure. More in the masochistic line." And staying alive is a pretty high bar where it comes to riding - and what better way to learn it than under fire, chasing after a tiny Miles who rides like he was born on horseback? Heck, sometimes I think I learnt how to stay alive on a horse from crazy horses who took off with me without warning.)
I wonder whether I'm getting tired of writing action and adventure - I considered (briefly) whether I needed to have other-memory-chip-guy trying to kill Simon, and the thought of writing some high powered chase with a lot of explosions was extremely off-putting. I never used to shy away from writing high powered chases with a lot of explosions - what changed?
This fic was just downright fun. Simon's mumbled a few times in the books about taking the damn chip out, and I've always wondered whether he'd actually seriously considered the possibility. Probably not.
Come to think of it, I might need a break from all these serious-bizness fics for a while. I've been writing too many of these pieces with Epic Insights and what-have-you, and I fear they're all going to sound the same very soon.
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Date: 2012-01-25 03:46 pm (UTC)From:Though I don't think mine can have been the only Simon fic on the internet, because I remember finding The Councils of Despair around the time I posted Lost -- I think The Councils of Despair was a yuletide fic, and probably posted on the Yuletide archive (so I only found it much later...)
My goodness, the fic_promptly list has exploded since the last time I looked it at. Thanks for the reminder, I'll check it out!