What Will It Take? Chapter 76: Author's Notes, a stargate: sg-1 fanfic

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Author's Final Notes: I sincerely hope that you enjoyed this story. The scenes in the epilogue are some of my favorite 'Sam/Jack ship' daydreams.

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I originally had several goals:

1) to write a Sam/Jack fanfic where they move beyond UST – and to use 'Stargate science fiction' as the medium for their developing relationship

2) to create a story that fits within the established tenor of the Stargate universe. I endeavored to ensure that I referenced series episodes, other fanfics, and resources such as the wonderful SG-1 Transcript site, Gateworld's online Omnipedia and the SciFi Channel's online Episode Guide.

3) to allow growth and the integration of new ideas; examples include the ideas of using the event horizon as a viewscreen, the Stargate's 'individual interface', backstories such as Grounder 1 and Raptor 2,… and Sam and Jack's developing personal relationship.

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There are so many more scenes that could still be written and explored, but this saga naturally brought itself to this ending. So many storylines could still be explored about Jack, Sam, Daniel, Teal'c, Dragon, Jennifer, that 'green glow', the Stargate's 'individual interface', Jacob and Jack's evolving relationship… and so many others.

I had originally planned to deal with the 'dreaded Pete', but the story took on its own form and neither Pete nor Kerry fit in properly (I think they each got mentioned once, in passing). I had an idea for how to get rid of Pete that I haven't seen any one else use, but the idea was too big to just be a sidestory for this fanfic – and I didn't want the 'Pete and/or Kerry' issue to take over and ruin the rest of this story.

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Wow! Seventy-five chapters! When I started this story, I had no idea that it would take over all of my free time… all of my time after work and much of the weekends. Hours and hours outlining and mapping out the storyline… I had to create timelines and pages of notes with planet designations. I learned how to use Microsoft Word's Table of Contents feature so that I could automatically update a table of contents and use that to help me keep tabs on the lengths of chapters along with the overall framework of the story.

Overall, I spent hundreds of hours writing, rewriting and editing - and I hope that the finished product was fun and intriguing to read. I love reading long SG-1 fanfics and I have greatly appreciated every SG-1 author who has posted their fanfics for me to enjoy.

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In closing, I would like to send one last thank-you to everyone who submitted reviews.

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