Becca Stareyes

I really need to just get a feed made from this journal, so I don't have to cross-post everything. I'm already behind about things like that.

Anyway, I have two whacked out crossover-fusion ideas. The less weird is a Fullmetal Alchemist/Vorkosigan Saga crossover* with tinges of Elizabeth Bear's work, involving nanotech. The second is a Firefly/Crest of the Stars crossover, mostly themed around 'loss of the frontier' and probably AU to the Big Damn Movie.

* I totally blame othercat@LJ. Well, that and the fact both series ahve main characters who are Very Self Conscious about their heights, and probably would have been much taller, if not for unforseen Tragic Circumstances. (The fact Miles's mother nearly died of poison gas when she was pregnant wiht him, and the whole 'Ed bound his brother's soul to armor' thing.) Plus, Miles is one of the few adult men Ed is taller than.

Granted, given the number of other Large Fanfic Ideas I have -- In the Shadows of the Flames, The Sun, Half Covered (and the end of that trilogy -- why did I finish the second one first again? Oh yeah, NaNo.), the Avatar AU, a couple of mid-sized Dresden Files fics -- I think it's safe to say I will never write these. Especially not if I just sit and play RPGs and Harvest Moon after work.

Fics written in 2007
( A meme... )

No word count tricks, no nothing. I even took out the Emergency Summary (the thing I typed a few days ago in case I hit 50,000 words but couldn't get to the end of the plot before the 30th).

Things I learned From NaNo This Year:
A lot of plot can be gotten from having characters with interesting backstories, then putting them into conflict. Half of my words were fights, and plot points I hadn't thought of in October.

I like this a lot better than last year's.

I'm nearly done with my NaNo.

This means I have an action scene. I hate writing action scenes.

Conclusion: Zelgadis Greywords studies at the Commander Vimes's school of diplomacy.

In other news, I hit 25 k. And now I get to write ninjas and demons. (Yes, this was my reward.)

I forgot this benefit of NaNo. I get very creative on my other projects when I can't work on them. Like, I scrawled a bit of Crest of the Stars fic this morning. And I just thought of how I wanted to end a fic I need to pick up again, In the Shadows of the Flames -- which requires watching Vision of Escaflowne again, and rewriting the first two chapters. As in, I have the text of the last paragraph in my head, and have to write it down.

Well, to do that and get back to work.

Would there be interest in a sort of fanfiction write-a-thon? Something like NaNo, but a little less intense?

( For great Justice! )