Big Damn Scribblers, how many story ideas do you have waiting to be written?
POSTED BY: KayleeGirl
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 03:39
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Quote:Yeah, that show was great, but somehow it was ever as great as the theme song, because that's what everyone always remembers.
Originally posted by mal4prez:
LOL! I LOVED that show! Everytime he did his shaky flying thing and ran into a wall I'd die!! I'd nearly forgotten all about it...
Quote:I don’t know. You should ask the Canadians that.
Originally posted by Oath:
Now, why wasn't there a Greatest CANADIAN Hero?
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Quote:For the last few years, I’ve just been writing sort of serial fantasy. Really pretty stock. Probably the only particularly quasi-unique thing is the setting, which is more classical then medieval. It’s just for fun, I haven’t tried to get anything published for years.
Originally posted by KayleeGirl:
But seriously, what kind of stuff do you write Finn mac Cumhal?
Quote:With the recent wave in 70s and 80s nostalgia, that might actually work.
Originally posted by KayleeGirl:
Now back to the theme song...Hey! Just a thought -- let's start a petition to get the show remade with Alan Tudyk in the lead role.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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I've got two i'd like to write, but to much work neede to be done, so they go back in my draw waiting till i'm not busy.
Oh, and i have to ask, how many of your stories are about our heroes? how many only have a hero do a cameo? and how many don't have the heroes at all, its all your creation in the Joss Whedon verse?
Just askin, cause i personally can't write the BDH so i stick to my own characters in the verse, cause its harder to go wromg if its your stuff.
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That was when i found out my pants were on fire, and that's my Courageous story.
- Jimmy the Blindoutlaw
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That’s why I’ve never really gotten into writing fan fiction. It seems like there are too many constraints on me. I like reading other people’s fan fiction, but I don’t like writing it.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Okay, I've written one fic so far (very shoddy), and I'm developing it into a much, MUCH larger story. It's only at chapter 4 (unbeta'd) right now, and I want to get a ways in before I post anything.
I also have a peice that will be a kind of a prequelish spin-off of that larger fic. It's only one chapter long, but it can be read as an individual piece. However, it is designed to fit into that larger story.
Both are kind of action/drama orientated, and follow canon pairings. Lot's of other characters we know and love (and hate) from the series and movie make appearences. It's post-BDM, obviously, and deals with a wide range of issues within the crew.
I also have another series I'd initially designed as a oneshot, but has turned into a 9 chapter work. I won't say what it's about because I haven't written anything down yet. Just know that it exists.
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Forsaken initiate.
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First: I loved the Greatest American Hero, and that the producers fought against the network's demand to make it more an 'aliens and supervillains' type show.
I tend to jump around alot with ideas, so I've got a few stories floating around the old brain pan. Unfortunately, at the rate I post, I'll get them all written in time for the premier of Firefly: The Next Generation
if anyone's interested:
- my own take on our favorite Preacher With a Past
- "Pandemic", my Big Honking Multipart Story
- A "lost episode" set during the series, fleshing out the relationship between Book and River
- "Tracker" a tale of young Malcolm Reynolds
- "Urban Legend", explaining why Mal is actually a Reaver
- A backstory for how Zoe got caught up in the war, and what happened when the war ended
- "Sihnon" Between the most powerful weapon in the 'verse, and the grandest world, stands a Firefly class vessel and a captain known for doing the impossible
I don't think i've ever finished a story before coming up with at least one seed for another. I really wish I could write more 
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I've got three pieces going, one of which is hot in my mind right now, but I'm hung up on it, can't get it out.
When I'm in that place, a new idea seems to come to me, and I plot and write a complete piece, before I go back to the first. Can you say avoidance, friends?
Anyway, maybe something coming soon.
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Originally posted by Blindoutlaw:
Oh, and i have to ask, how many of your stories are about our heroes? how many only have a hero do a cameo? and how many do have the heroes at all, its all your creation in the Joss Whedon verse?
The first one I wrote included all the BDHs except Inara (because it was set after she left). In the next two I'm writing, I'll focus on just one OC -- Jayne in one, and Book in the other. In the one with Jayne, I plan to launch a brand new Firefly Transport and crew with the hopes of starting a series of stories in the verse with the BDHs making only the occassional cameo.
I enjoy trying to write by someone else's rules every once in awhile. It's a new kind of challenge -- sort of like writing a poem in sonnet form as opposed to free verse. It's always great to have free reign in my own fictional worlds, but it's also great to have someone else shoulder the burden of setting the stage for me so I can just walk onto it and start playing!
If I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna dream big.
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I have never written a Firefly fanfic but I have some ideas boiling in my head that I hope someday will turn into a story or two. Right now I'm just putting all my ideas into a notebook. It's full of bits of dialogue and information on new characters that will cross paths with Serenity and it's crew, or just lists of stuff I want to write about. Later I will sort everything and begin the hardest task of all in fanfic writing: actually telling the story.
I have four-five more stories in other fandoms planned and I have no idea of when to get the time to write it all (I'm a sloooooooooow writer).
http://swedishmystery.blogspot.com
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Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:Quote:Yeah, that show was great, but somehow it was ever as great as the theme song, because that's what everyone always remembers.
Originally posted by mal4prez:
LOL! I LOVED that show! Everytime he did his shaky flying thing and ran into a wall I'd die!! I'd nearly forgotten all about it...Quote:I don’t know. You should ask the Canadians that.
Originally posted by Oath:
Now, why wasn't there a Greatest CANADIAN Hero?
Didn't your hear? We all can fly, so it just wasn't... well, very heroic when we all can do it.
I've only got 3 stories floating around in that vast expanse I call "My Head". One I've started which is a Firefly Battlestar crossover. Got the plot worked out but have stalled in the verbalization. One is an original idea and the final one is more of a contribution to an on-going story called the Special Branch.
Makes for a cluttered noggin'. All kinda of pretty pictures but no subtitles.
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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."
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