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bedlamsbard* I have been vaguely scarce because I had a midterm and a quiz today and a paper due Monday that I was working on all weekend. Those are all over! Let us rejoice.
* I finally cracked and asked my mother to ship my box set of the Chronicles of Narnia down here. No idea where I'll put them, since I'm OUT OF ROOM on my bookshelves, but maybe if I take my DVDs off the shelves and just stack those on top of the books I can squeeze them in there...
* Currently rereading: Winter House, by Carol O'Connell, one of my two favorite mystery writers.
* Current status on Dust 3: unbegun. STUDYING, ducks, and there are some internal timeline issues I have to work out before the chapter starts, since I'm skipping slight chunks of time.
* Other thoughts on Dust: there's the more famous Eliot poem "The Waste Land" that's also got a line about dust...I know "Dust in the Air" is the full title, but I was glancing over "The Waste Land" the other day and spotted the line "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." Just, you know, food for thought.
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starsimpulse points out that The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack isn't a bad accompaniment to Dust.
*ineptshieldmaid and I have been writing Peta (me) and Edwina (hers) at each other here, and it looks like it's developed a plot...
*lassiterfics and I wrote Susan/Edmund, Peter/Susan, Peter/Edmund, and Peter/Susan/Edmund here. (With bonus Wordle analysis!)
* Possibilities for NaNo include:
FIC: HIGHLY LIKELY
In This Hollow Valley
immortal!Susan and resurrected!Peter. Pros: plot more or less known, should cover 50K, easily made unrecognizable as fic. (Special Agent Susan Regina! This amuses me far more than it probably should.) Cons: fic, crack.
Be Like Water
Petaverse. Pros: plot completely known except for a couple small wrinkles, will cover 50K THREE TIMES OVER, can always throw sex in when the plot seems to be slowing, has been promised for ages and ages now. Cons: extremely easily recognizable as fic, crack.
untitled #1
werewolf!Pevensies. Pros: plot times three, should cover 50K, can disguise as original fic. Cons: crack.
FIC: MUCH LESS LIKELY
untitled #2
pirate AU. Pros: plot, could probably cover 50K, can disguise as original fic. Cons: boring as of now, crack, research.
untitled #3
Everse. Pros: half of a plot, will definitely cover 50K, sex somewhere. Cons: crack, the other half of the plot, easily recognizable as fic.
untitled #4
Chrestomanci/Narnia crossover. Pros: vague inkling of a plot, crack. Cons: crack, slight lack of the rest of the plot, easily recognizable as fic TIMES TWO.
ORIGINAL FIC
untitled #5
Ellis and LaMontaine, a pair of NYPD homicide detectives. Ellis is new to homicide, LaMontaine is a transfer from the NOPD. Pros: original fic, currently in New Orleans. Cons: plot, beyond the whole "LaMontaine may or may not be a serial killer" thing.
untitled #6
modern days Narnia copy. Pros: original fic, vague plot-like type thing. Cons: rip-off of Narnia, could just write fic (did just write fic, to tell you how interested I was in this), and Peter is more fun than Kavan anyway.
untitled #7/#1
werewolf!Pevensies recast as originals. Pros: original fic, plot. Cons: crack, would have to come up with new names for all the characters.
On a Pale Horse
the Spaceforce novel, a.k.a. the senior project novel. Pros: original fic, plot, established characters, world, world-building, sex, violence. Cons: OH GOD NO I DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT THIS FOR ANOTHER YEAR OR SO.
*blinks* It is...a little disturbing how many of these have "crack" as a con. Probably because I'm not sure my non-crack fic covers 50K. "Dust in the Air" is not on this list because I'm going to keep working on it anyway, and I still cherish fond hopes of it not being 50K.
* I finally cracked and asked my mother to ship my box set of the Chronicles of Narnia down here. No idea where I'll put them, since I'm OUT OF ROOM on my bookshelves, but maybe if I take my DVDs off the shelves and just stack those on top of the books I can squeeze them in there...
* Currently rereading: Winter House, by Carol O'Connell, one of my two favorite mystery writers.
* Current status on Dust 3: unbegun. STUDYING, ducks, and there are some internal timeline issues I have to work out before the chapter starts, since I'm skipping slight chunks of time.
* Other thoughts on Dust: there's the more famous Eliot poem "The Waste Land" that's also got a line about dust...I know "Dust in the Air" is the full title, but I was glancing over "The Waste Land" the other day and spotted the line "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." Just, you know, food for thought.
*
starsimpulse points out that The Last of the Mohicans soundtrack isn't a bad accompaniment to Dust.*
ineptshieldmaid and I have been writing Peta (me) and Edwina (hers) at each other here, and it looks like it's developed a plot...*
lassiterfics and I wrote Susan/Edmund, Peter/Susan, Peter/Edmund, and Peter/Susan/Edmund here. (With bonus Wordle analysis!)* Possibilities for NaNo include:
FIC: HIGHLY LIKELY
In This Hollow Valley
immortal!Susan and resurrected!Peter. Pros: plot more or less known, should cover 50K, easily made unrecognizable as fic. (Special Agent Susan Regina! This amuses me far more than it probably should.) Cons: fic, crack.
Be Like Water
Petaverse. Pros: plot completely known except for a couple small wrinkles, will cover 50K THREE TIMES OVER, can always throw sex in when the plot seems to be slowing, has been promised for ages and ages now. Cons: extremely easily recognizable as fic, crack.
untitled #1
werewolf!Pevensies. Pros: plot times three, should cover 50K, can disguise as original fic. Cons: crack.
FIC: MUCH LESS LIKELY
untitled #2
pirate AU. Pros: plot, could probably cover 50K, can disguise as original fic. Cons: boring as of now, crack, research.
untitled #3
Everse. Pros: half of a plot, will definitely cover 50K, sex somewhere. Cons: crack, the other half of the plot, easily recognizable as fic.
untitled #4
Chrestomanci/Narnia crossover. Pros: vague inkling of a plot, crack. Cons: crack, slight lack of the rest of the plot, easily recognizable as fic TIMES TWO.
ORIGINAL FIC
untitled #5
Ellis and LaMontaine, a pair of NYPD homicide detectives. Ellis is new to homicide, LaMontaine is a transfer from the NOPD. Pros: original fic, currently in New Orleans. Cons: plot, beyond the whole "LaMontaine may or may not be a serial killer" thing.
untitled #6
modern days Narnia copy. Pros: original fic, vague plot-like type thing. Cons: rip-off of Narnia, could just write fic (did just write fic, to tell you how interested I was in this), and Peter is more fun than Kavan anyway.
untitled #7/#1
werewolf!Pevensies recast as originals. Pros: original fic, plot. Cons: crack, would have to come up with new names for all the characters.
On a Pale Horse
the Spaceforce novel, a.k.a. the senior project novel. Pros: original fic, plot, established characters, world, world-building, sex, violence. Cons: OH GOD NO I DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT THIS FOR ANOTHER YEAR OR SO.
*blinks* It is...a little disturbing how many of these have "crack" as a con. Probably because I'm not sure my non-crack fic covers 50K. "Dust in the Air" is not on this list because I'm going to keep working on it anyway, and I still cherish fond hopes of it not being 50K.