Naked NaNo - Story Finished!

[keiramarcos]

Title: The Search
Author: Keira Marcos
Series: Sentinels of Atlantis
Series Order: 20  (Episodes 1 to 19 are on my website)

Word Count Goal: 50,000

Summary:
The Expedition and the SGC face unexpected challenges as they search for power and truth.

One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight | Nine | Ten | Eleven

This will remain up on Naked NaNo through the end of November. I'll probably delete it after that and it will appear on my main site in January after beta and the first season ebook for Sentinels of Atlantis.

Comments

W00T W00T OORAH

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Never have I been so glad for insomnia in my life, as have been waiting on this with unseemly eagerness.

[popkin16]

Wow. You know how to move a story along, but more than anything you know how to *end* an installment. Every piece you post always leaves me wanting more.

[skeddy-kat.livejournal.com]

This was deliciously awesome. You make it very easy to get wrapped up in your characters and what they are feeling. (Also I'm really, really, really glad that you believe in happy endings,)

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

Yay! It was a great story. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for letting us peer over your shoulder as you wrote it!

[druidchick.livejournal.com]

i love everything about this series.

[ladyholder.livejournal.com]

This was a wonderful treat to watch. Thank you.

~L

[kaleecat]

I've been reading all along on the naked nano site and apologize for being remiss at leaving comments. I've had to do a lot of reading on my phone & find it exceedingly difficult to any sort of social commenting on the device.

These last two parts had me absolutely breathless, it truly was if I was watching it unfold on television. You build the trifecta of tension, characters and plot so amazingly. I really kept forgetting that this is the "raw" version of the story, its so so good how could it be better? (I know this is an erroneous thought as I had the proof in how 'black magic' evolved).

[citrinedreams.livejournal.com]

Wow! What an ending, I can honestly say I didn't see that one coming. Thanks for a great story and congrats on making the 50k for NaNo. I'll look forward to whatever you decide to gift us with next, whenever that may be.

[joidianne4eva.livejournal.com]

I've been awful with commenting but just to let you know that I read the whole thing tonight and it was awesome, just as brilliant as the others and congrats on making your 50k way ahead of time!

[qzee.livejournal.com]

Your epilogue had me picturing Gibbs coming online as a sentinel and heading right for Tony and I'm almost anti Gibbs/Tony as, to me, their relationship on the show is too father/son ish.

I've always pictured O'Neill and Gibbs having met at some time, possibly overseas so the Gibbs coming online suddenly and unexpectedly would have him at least calling O'Neill.

I also pictured Ziva coming online and being drawn to Jimmy Palmer and his wife. Perhaps taking both of them as her guides. (I mean if Vala's people could do that, why not Ziva?

I will have to re-read the whole nano though as the last chapter had me going "wha?" because I kept thinking "haven't Allison and Anne been together since juniors at high school?" And then realizing after I finished the chapter that I was thinking of Ties That Bind and that you were explaining how differently they came together here.

I do hope the epilogue means that most, if not all, online guides had a sentinel come online for them. And that it means that maybe Matt was pushed online too. I'm really looking forward to the next Sentinels of Atlantis, whenever it shows up.

woo-hoo!

[neeliemom.livejournal.com]

You are so awesome I can hardly stand it! Thank you *so* much for this latest installment of the SOA story. Once again you have packed so many details and lovely personal tidbits in that it will take time and re-reading for it all to soak in. Ohhh, and we had not only some femme slash but some femme angst as well! What fun! As a loyal minion I'd like to thank you for perking up my Thanksgiving afternoon/evening. I knew I had this to look forward to, so it helped the day go better.

I hope you had a good day, and maybe got some good family stories you can share with us. Did Aunt Holy Roller or your Mom do anything interesting at the family dinner?

[iadorespike]

I guess I'm still kind of in shock and thrilled at the same time that you used Anne and Allison (Allison is AMAZING!!!!) the way that you did in this last part of ep #20. It came out of left field for me - I don't know if it's just me, but I did love it. I was really shocked at the reminder that Chase & Matt had exchanged that assignment with Anne and Allison, because jeez - what a mess that would have been. All told, you thrill me more and more each time you put words on paper (so to speak). Thanks again for everything that you do!

*hugs*

Anna

[lianefontaine.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was amazing! It was great to have so much focus on the Sentinels and Guides on Earth, the way Chase and Matt are all "we totally click together, but no way can we be sure we would match if Matt came online" is really cute (and a bit exasperating, because honestly, there's no way that would change anything, especially seeing how Matt reacted to the Center's interference - and wasn't him punching the a***hole sweet to read...). Did I recognize Colby Granger from Numb3rs on their gate team, or was that another coincidence from the name generator? I seem to recall that he was a Ranger before joining the FBI, so...
Can't wait to see the "finished" version, I think I'm gonna re-read it right away!

[keiramarcos]

Nah that was totally on purpose. I'll be stealing Charlie Epps eventually, too.

[violet26.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Charlie Epps in SOA! I cannot wait! (Also thinking about Charlie in Ties That Bind...I'm off to my bunk to develop that thought more;))

I have enjoyed the NakedNano updates of SOA so much, I can't tell you. You really know how to move plots along, and the last part was EPIC! The Anne/Alison plot was so good, I was on the edge of my seat reading it.

Now having a re read. Well done. Really well done

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Oh lovely I adore the SOA. Thank you

Yeah!!!!!!

[quiltedlives.livejournal.com]

I know what I'm doing this weekend! SOA start to finish. best excuse to skip Black Friday.

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Oh wow that was very well done

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

*happy dances and sends champagne* YAY!!

[trustingfrndshp.livejournal.com]

This was awesome. I love all of your pairs so much so seeing so many of them in this episode was great. I love all of your fics and I seem to love whichever I'm reading at the time the most I guess because I just finish being reminded why love it. Thanks for sharing :) I got a kindle not that long ago and I can't wait to put your ebooks on it!

[inu-spockya.livejournal.com]

yumm, and woohoo for you, dear lady!! bloody good show! yee-fucking-HAW!

um, so, I ah, yeah, kind of like this, if ye couldn't tell... ;-)>