CEDRIC

Hey, My tour is taking me through Atlanta next Monday night (July 20). If you are willing to provide crash space for one night, please drop me a line at fithelere @ gmail.com I'll happily offer a free private concert in exchange for a couch or floor (or accomodations in the Inara Suite, whatever). Xie-xie, Cedric

STEAMER

....and then figuring a way out of them, as Uncle Joss would put it. :wink: I'm both working hard and hardly working. The latter applies, unfortunately, to Firefly fanfic. 'Where They Don't Follow' is now on hold; something about those first few chapters is driving me up the wall, and I cannot for the life of me put my finger on it. Of course, if any of you have opinions on what's wrong, at least I'd be willin' to hear 'em. If and when I suss out the problem, the first few chapters will see an edit before I get on to the good stuff. However, there is another matter, hence the 'working hard' part - original fiction. Yes, kiddies, I'm taking the plunge, have procured an entire ream of paper for the manuscript of an original novel (at least I hope it's original and that somebody hasn't already beaten me to it, AGAIN). If you haven't been skinnified on Facebook or LJ, it's a World War II submarine saga I call 'Order of Battle', first in a potential series if I can work it. Should it ever hit the shelves, I have no idea what the cover art might look like, but if the artist wants to feature the main character, I will see to it that he's the dead-spitting image of Nathan Fillion. When you read the book, you will very quickly understand why. :wink: (To that end, there will, happily, be plenty of opportunity for 'my boat' to alight from his tongue - since submarines were and still are commonly known as boats. :biggrin:) Another note on submarines: until the 70's, they were named after all manner of marine life. While searching for unused fish names thus suited for fictional subs, I came upon the common name 'firefish' - and further discovered that there was never a submarine named

PHYRELIGHT

[b]I'M GETTING MARRIED!!![/b] :biggrin:

RIPWASH

Two, actually. But no stinkin' idea how to implement them. I can see them clearly in my head, but not the skill or the know-how to even get a prototype made. I guess you could call it "crafty" to an extent. Or even "home & garden." I'm stumped. I would think . . . I hope that it would be something that would sell relatively well at conventions and the like, but ya never know. My luck . . . probably not :evil: I'm hesitant to bring it up here, 'cause . . . you know . . . don't want the idea stolen. I mean, even if I WANTED to tell you guys, how could I protect myself? I don't even know how to do THAT!! :biggrin: But if anyone has any clue or any experience in bringing ideas to fruition, I sure would appreciate any direction you might offer.

BYTEMITE

Don't worry, River's safe! No, what I mean is, I'm considering descending into currently unplumbed depths of obsessed fan-ishness. I'm considering buying the Sims 3, even though I'm not sure I have room on my home computer... Solely to recreate the characters of Firefly. I. Have. PROBLEMS. But, see, what I've always been interested in with the Sims series, is testing how well the games simulate personality interactions. Specifically by creating fictional couples as best as I can, and seeing if they ever end up together autonomously. 'Course, not sure how I'm going to find time to buy the game, make the characters, and let the simulations run, when I barely have time for writing Eidolon. But I am seriously tempted to try. Anyone else done anything like this?