First, thank you so much for your suggestions of movies about movies! So many of them really helped in figuring out what needed to be in the story and what didn't.
Well, you know me too well--I love writing these ensemble stories and making them into this web of relationships. It's my favorite part! Rather than, you know, how they all related to one or two characters. And it's something I really love about the Trek 'verse, as opposed to HP. We really know how the characters all interrelate, not just how they all relate to Kirk.
I'm so glad people liked the character evolution! For me that's always the starting place and the heart-and-soul of the story, and then after that I have to figure out a series of events for all that growth to hang from. Jim is a bit self-involved, so it was fun to kick him out of that, even if kinda forcibly! And the movie gives us such a fun new way to see Kirk and Uhura's relationship.
Joanna had to be the inspiration for Alexis Castle because it was the other way around, and Ali at one point was like, she's hyper articulate and really smart and I didn't want to change her, so I just decided to be clever about it, haha. But I think becoming a dad will make Jim both more critical and more understanding of what Winona went through.
I'm always surprised that I create any tension at all! I always think, but it's my story! You know what's going to happen!
I'm so writing like, 25 spin off fics of this, seriously. I'm so pleased you liked it! Triple yay!!!!!
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Date: 2010-11-09 08:33 pm (UTC)Well, you know me too well--I love writing these ensemble stories and making them into this web of relationships. It's my favorite part! Rather than, you know, how they all related to one or two characters. And it's something I really love about the Trek 'verse, as opposed to HP. We really know how the characters all interrelate, not just how they all relate to Kirk.
I'm so glad people liked the character evolution! For me that's always the starting place and the heart-and-soul of the story, and then after that I have to figure out a series of events for all that growth to hang from. Jim is a bit self-involved, so it was fun to kick him out of that, even if kinda forcibly! And the movie gives us such a fun new way to see Kirk and Uhura's relationship.
Joanna had to be the inspiration for Alexis Castle because it was the other way around, and Ali at one point was like, she's hyper articulate and really smart and I didn't want to change her, so I just decided to be clever about it, haha. But I think becoming a dad will make Jim both more critical and more understanding of what Winona went through.
I'm always surprised that I create any tension at all! I always think, but it's my story! You know what's going to happen!
I'm so writing like, 25 spin off fics of this, seriously. I'm so pleased you liked it! Triple yay!!!!!