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NaNoWriMo - help me choose my story! [31 Oct 2007|12:41am]
[ mood | excited ]

So… I’ve been trying to sit down and decide which of the projects that I have running around in my head that are actually at the writing stage to do for NaNoWriMo. I’ve signed up, I’m doing it… and 50K words is nothing, so no worries there. The fact that I haven’t found and hour when my brain is running on all cylinders to sit at Starbucks and decide disturbs me more than doing a 50K word free write by several orders of magnitude. And, no rush on deciding; after all, NaNoWriMo only starts tomorrow night. ;)

SO, with my lack of decision making ability, all ask my wondrous f-list what they’d like to read.

Fandom idea:
Cajun Nights (X-Men AU) – I have two chapters done (I think only one posted): an alternate universe X-Men story where Ororo goes to New Orleans on holiday and to scout some mutants, and runs into our favorite Cajun, and some ‘sinister’ and ‘shadow’y elements. Explains how Remy ends up at the Mansion in that universe.

Original ideas:
The Winter Tree – a pure fantasy novel set in the RPG universe I’ve been working on since I was 11 (the same one where Tarchannon comes from). The Fae abandoned the world of Magilon, setting a great seal to prevent anyone from following. Unbeknownst to anyone, their departure created a great imbalance, and now even the forces of Magic are weakening. One God risks his own immortality to set a risky and vastly dangerous plan into motion that could restore the balance… or send all of reality into chaos.

The Cracking of the Sky – a story of a man who thinks that his life is over when he’s struck by lightning, and discovers that absolutely nothing he thought that he knew about himself and the world was right. A sci-fi adventure with mystery tones.

The Moebius Cycle (working title) – the day the first of the six gods of earth appears in public is the day humans learned that they were not alone… and that that had only one, perilously slim chance to save themselves from extinction, to evolve into something greater. And the disappointed gods, are unabashedly hedging their bets in the event of failure and accelerating potential 'sapiens' that might follow humans in their dominion of the planet if they fail. (First of a six book cycle, hard sci-fi, heavy in biology, religion, and politics, and by far the most ambitious project).

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My 15-second reviews of a new new shows [23 Sep 2007|02:34pm]
[ mood | awake ]

Pushing Daisies - I thought it was quirky and charming, and really funny. The lead guy is dead hot, and the not-quite-girlfriend that he cannot touch was so dryly amusing. I loved it.

Journeyman - very Quantum-Leap-meets-Early-Edition, but a bit more mysterious. It's been made clear that he will not know why he's timeshifting for a while, but I think the lead is interesting, and it has potential. Not excellent, but not bad either - if you can get past the initial resemblence to other (previous) genre shows.

Gossip Girl - a sophisticted New York twist on The-OC-meets-Dangerous-Liasons, the pilot wasn't bad, nor was the strongest pilot. I think it has a good deal of potential though. I'll keep an eye on it for a dozen episodes because all too often, shows get much worse (or, occasionally, much better) after the first few eps.

Back To You - Crap. Just crap. Lame, lame, lame, tired sitcom BS.

Bionic Woman - not the strongest of pilots, and the acting among most of the players is kinda weak. The lead gets much better by the end, and she has a good track record, and I loved, *loved*, LOVED Katee Sackhoff in this. She's nuts, and hot, and off-kilter amesome. I'll give it a dozen eps before I decide. I'm told that they tweaked a bit after the pilot and before the second episode, which is promising.

Private Practice - a meh followup to the meh psueo-pilot. It has potential, and a *fabulous* cast of veterans - most of which can carry a show on their own (or have). This one just needs to find it's place, so it's all up to Shondra Rimes and the writing staff here.

Chuck - loved it, and PG-rated 8PM shows are so not my usual thing. The lead is endearing and geek-chic, the blond-sexpotkickass-agent is cool, and, well, Adam Baldwin makes everything he's in better. It's fluffy and geeky and fun.

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New Slash Asylums (commnuities) [30 Aug 2007|02:09am]
[ mood | bouncy ]

OK, folks! I just I just jumped in with two feet and opened some asylums (communities).

xslash - devoted to x-men slash ( http://xslash.insanejournal.com/ )

ricstar - the twin group to our LJ group that XT and I started ( http://ricstar.insanejournal.com/ )

Logan_Remy - devoted to the Wolverine/Gambit pairing ( http://logan_remy.insanejournal.com/ )

Join up and have fun!

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