The big post of MEH.

I've been off work for the last couple of days with this bloody cold. By yesterday's standards, today has been rather unproductive - yesterday I produced 2 picspams, a ficlet and wrote up a rather long DW episode recap!

Today? Meh.

It would help if I could stop writing new fics when I've got old ones to finish. Today's effort was probably one of the most angsty, UST-y things I've ever written. It's not finished, and I'm not sure if I'll post it even if I do finish it - it's just so... I dunno. Daft?

I'm having a problem. As someone who has written mostly shippy fic, I'm naturally gravitating towards writing it again.

BUT.

Before, the couple I wrote did at least end up as a couple in canon, and there had also been loads and loads of signposts along the way that that was going to happen eventually.

But in DW, there are no canon ships (well - there might be, but not yet!). No, not even Nine or Ten and Rose. There is some UST but there is no "R", whichever pairing you like best. So I find that I'm continually pulling myself back - not from writing RST, because I can't bring myself to do that, but from piling on the "U" by the truckload.

Those of you out there who write fic - let me ask you a question or two. If you write shippy fic, do you usually write characters who are either together or pretty likely to end up that way? Or doesn't that matter, because this is "just fic"? If you write non-canon ships, what is it about the characters and what you've seen on screen that makes you think they should pair up?

I suppose I'm trying to adjust my mindset and I'm interested in your thoughts.