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Re: So... fanfics!

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I did the fanfic thing for a while. Part of me still hopes to get back to it, but I lost a lot of the development stuff when the board my development forum went down suddenly because the owner decided to not renew that year and neglected to tell me. Unfortunately I'd been too lazy to back it up, so all I have now are the MSN IM coversations I'd saved and the outlines I'd typed up in Word rather than just posting them in the forum. It kind of took the wind out of my sails, and at about that time most of the other people working on it with me had quit, too. :/

Anyway, if anyone is interested, I did my own version of ENT that was named Star Trek: Foundations. I liked the concept of ENT but felt it could have been done better, and with more of an attempt made to make it feel like a TOS prequel rather than a TNG prequel. It's also somewhat influenced by nuBSG, which was airing at the time I started the development and writing for the show, which is why the pilot is a miniseries. There are definitely some things I'd do differently, and probably will if I ever get back to writing for it. I kept some things. Like the infamous decon scene. :D It honestly never bothered me that much in concept, it's just that it didn't make much sense to me as a form of decontamination, and the arguing they did came off as pointless to me. In my version it's more about character development, but I kept the fan service aspect, and arguably cranked it up a bit since the decon procedure they go through is more like a real one. Some of the episodes are reworked versions of ENT episodes I liked, and some of them are original to Foundations. I'd actually be kind of interested in what Chuck thought of it, like if we improved on ENT or not in his opinion, but that'd be asking too much I think. :/

I also did some dime romance stuff with my favorite couple from ENT. I'd say it's old shame but I don't really have any as it was pretty popular with its intended audience. :D
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Steve wrote:Well, it's been a week, so I'll speak about my experience. Specifically, I love crossovers because I love the idea of exploring how the characters might react to these sorts of situations.
I find myself reading crossovers when two continuities with really different tones are mixed together. Superman x Star Trek. Sam Beckett leaping into Wile E. Coyote. Harry Dresden in Equestria (MLP seems to get an extraordinary number of these, and I only started watching the show after I read a couple Doctor Hooves stories. The most serious I got for most of them was wondering if the transporter would work on Superman.

Probably not as intellectually deep an interest as Steve's or Romulan Republic's. Mine's probably more the kind expressed by reading them while eating a children's breakfast cereal.
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I wrote some old Transformers and Star Trek fanfics back in the day (not crossovers, unfortunately).

And sometimes my brain writes its own. Like the dream I had the other night of Oscar the Grouch playing host to a group of random kids and the 1st season Maximals from Beast Wars. :?
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Darth Wedgius wrote:
Steve wrote:Well, it's been a week, so I'll speak about my experience. Specifically, I love crossovers because I love the idea of exploring how the characters might react to these sorts of situations.
I find myself reading crossovers when two continuities with really different tones are mixed together. Superman x Star Trek. Sam Beckett leaping into Wile E. Coyote. Harry Dresden in Equestria (MLP seems to get an extraordinary number of these, and I only started watching the show after I read a couple Doctor Hooves stories. The most serious I got for most of them was wondering if the transporter would work on Superman.

Probably not as intellectually deep an interest as Steve's or Romulan Republic's. Mine's probably more the kind expressed by reading them while eating a children's breakfast cereal.
Eh, I wouldn't call most of my work deep.

Its easy to talk about how to write a great story. A lot harder to do it. I try, but, even by the lower quality standards of internet fanfic, I wouldn't rate myself higher than "competent". On a good day.
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Writing is always trickier than it appears, and I sometimes kick myself for not noticing something I could've done to make a story better. And sometimes I get lucky and realize I've left a thread that can be tied very successfully into something else.

And sometimes... it's because I tackle challenges because of thematic issues or things I want to explore. Say, mixing OCs into the events of a particular episode of a series I'm crossing over into. In the UF stories I've done this multiple times (both major appearances with SG-1, for instance, tie into actual SG-1 episodes, "Secrets" and "Fair Trade"), including two of the most notorious episodes of their respective franchises/series: "Dear Doctor" (thanks to time travel, another added complication) and "Love & Monsters". And viewers of Chuck's work can tell you just what those episodes' issues were... ;) I had my reasons, such as introducing concepts, exploring a character's motivations, or setting up things for the later meeting with the Doctor for the OCs, but I'm probably lucky that I managed to make those stories work well enough that people enjoyed them.

But as I said, at the end of the day, I do it because I like exploring the resulting interactions. Imagining how the characters will react to things.

...plus it's a good warmup for the really big interaction I'm building up to: involving the OCs and their ship in the events of "Mass Effect 1" and doing so in a way that doesn't diminish Shepard and the Normandy crew. Wish me luck...
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