Drabble: Just a Small Town Boy

[unfeathered]

Title: Just a Small Town Boy (Drabble)
Fandom: Doctor Who/Torchwood
Author: unfeathered
Pairing/Rating/Warnings: Jack/OFC/PG-13/None
Word Count: 100
Spoilers: Little bit for Last of the Time Lords
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: Jack's first time (yes, really, there was one!)
Author’s Note: Sparked by a couple of conversations recently…



Contrary to popular belief, Jack Harkness had not always been an enormous slut.

His parents were considered quite straight-laced and they'd brought him up properly. It wasn't until he got into the Time Academy that he'd got his first glimpse of life beyond his small home town.

His first time had been a cliché: best friend's older sister indulging the handsome virgin from the sticks, condescending to show him the ropes in return for being able to say she had him first.

To her, no doubt, it was otherwise unmemorable.

But for Jack, things would never be the same again.

Comments

[unfeathered]

Thank you :-)

Drabbles have to be the hardest thing to write sometimes

Hmmm. Yes and no, for me. Yes, they're harder than they look, because you have to work at paring them down. But I've got a feel for roughly how much I can get in a drabble now (and this is, what?, my fifth? sixth? *grin*) so once I've got started I can toss one off quite quickly.

Which is a huge relief, because I'm someone who writes slowly, then drafts and redrafts, leaves and comes back to, and edits again before posting anything longer (not to mention using a beta)! At least with a drabble, there's only so much re-editing you can do.

[ashestothestars.livejournal.com]

Which is a huge relief, because I'm someone who writes slowly, then drafts and redrafts, leaves and comes back to, and edits again before posting anything longer (not to mention using a beta)! At least with a drabble, there's only so much re-editing you can do.

Sounds like me :) I'm in the process of final revisions for a novel that I'll hopefully get published in the next year or so, and I have to sit on my hands to keep from revising certain scenes to death in it.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

First yep - Jack and his first time YAY - worked for me *g*

Second
I'm someone who writes slowly, then drafts and redrafts, leaves and comes back to, and edits again before posting anything longer (not to mention using a beta)

OMG Snap Except sometimes I get so paranoid about how it's turning out I just can't bear to let anyone see it till I throw it on the mercies of the readers. After that writing drables is a relief (as long as the muse bites in the first place :S)

[unfeathered]

First - thanks! :-)

Second - I know what you mean. I can see why so many people don't use betas, because it is, ridiculously, soooo much scarier sending something you've written to just one person than to the entire world.

Actually, I suppose it's because, since they've agreed to beta it, they pretty much have to comment on it, whereas if you just post it, no-one is actually obliged to comment if they don't want to.

Having said that, scary or not, I love what I get back from my betas and would never, now, post anything longer than a drabble or ficlet without them.