Apparently lately I only write stuff when I have a ficathon deadline. But I have too many WIPs, so I shouldn't be working on new stuff. This ficathon is exactly what I need; last year I actually got a new chapter done on a story that I hadn't worked on since 2001.
So here I go again. Same deal as last year. I am notorious for writing immensely long fanfics that I never finish. So what I am committing to is to write 15,000 words of a fic out of these 10. Some of these fanfics will probably be finished within 15,000 words, and some won't. Most of the fanfics have already been published in part, so I will include links if they have. All of these are alternate universes that break off from the fandom's canon somewhere. Not the exact same list as last year.
1. Only Human (http://www.alara.net/trek/oh.html) Fandom(s): Star Trek TNG Description: Q lost his powers in "Deja Q" and then never got them back. Three years later he tries to kill himself. Type: Het. Rating: Going to go NC-17. Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Hell no.
2. Working In Groups (http://www.alara.net/trek/groups.html) Fandom(s): Star Trek TNG Description: This is Deja Q, the anti-deus-ex-machina remix. What if the Q Continuum had not intervened in any way after Q's selfless act? Type: Gen Rating: PG Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Maybe.
3. Twin Poles: Journeyman of Magnetism (http://www.alara.net/xbooks/twin.html) Fandom(s): X-Men Comics Description: My version of the origin of the character Joseph. Type: Mostly gen. Rating: PG-13. Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Maybe.
4. Burning Time (http://alara-works.livejournal.com/5461.html#cutid1) Fandom(s): Star Trek TNG Description: Sequel to Guidance, an AU to "Only Human" above. Soran from "Generations" kidnaps Q. Is scheduled to have Picard, Guinan, and Kirk in major roles, as well as angst, torture, sacrifice, and entirely one-sided sexual fantasies. Type: Slash. Rating: R. Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Probably not.
5. Seventeen Things That Might Have Happened To Q: (http://www.alara.net/trek/17things.html) Fandom(s): Star Trek Description: Along the lines of the "Five Things" meme. Type: Het *and* gen *and* slash. Rating: PG-13. Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Yes.
6. The Prince In Winter (http://www.alara.net/ajer/amnesty/prince.html) Fandom: X-Men Comics Description: Joseph deals with Rogue's death. Type: Het Rating: PG Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Yes.
7. Beauty or the Beast (http://www.alara.net/ajer/amnesty/beautybeast.html) Fandom: X-Men Comics Description: Genderswap of Magneto's clone Joseph, and how a twenty-something amnesiac *woman* with Magneto's powers and fragments of his memories would have been seen very differently by the X-Men. Type: Femslash. Rating: PG-13. Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Maybe.
8. Do It Again 4: That Only A Mother (http://www.livejournal.com/users/alara_r/82666.html) Fandom(s): Star Trek Description: Do It Again is a series of stories set in an AU deliberately created by Q, in which Q's appearance is female. The fourth story involves Q and Tasha Yar immediately after Yar's death. Type: Mostly gen. Rating: PG-13 or R. Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Yes.
9. Judgement Day: (http://www.alara.net/trek/judgement_day.html) Churchill's Black Dog Fandom(s): Star Trek Description: Judgement Day is a series of stories set in an AU where Q's side lost the civil war in the Continuum, and humanity was confined to Earth. This, the only of the pieces here that has actually not been begun, is Picard's story. Type: Gen. Rating: PG-13. Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Yes.
10. The Wolf and the Hound (http://www.alara.net/ajer/amnesty/wolfhound.html) Fandom: X-Men Comics Description: After Xavier's apparent death during Magneto's trial, Magneto and Scott Summers end up being co-headmasters of the New Mutants. Type: Gen, maybe het Rating: PG Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Maybe.
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Tricking myself.
Date: 2006-08-21 04:54 pm (UTC)So here I go again. Same deal as last year. I am notorious for writing immensely long fanfics that I never finish. So what I am committing to is to write 15,000 words of a fic out of these 10. Some of these fanfics will probably be finished within 15,000 words, and some won't. Most of the fanfics have already been published in part, so I will include links if they have. All of these are alternate universes that break off from the fandom's canon somewhere. Not the exact same list as last year.
1. Only Human (http://www.alara.net/trek/oh.html)
Fandom(s): Star Trek TNG
Description: Q lost his powers in "Deja Q" and then never got them back. Three years later he tries to kill himself.
Type: Het.
Rating: Going to go NC-17.
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Hell no.
2. Working In Groups (http://www.alara.net/trek/groups.html)
Fandom(s): Star Trek TNG
Description: This is Deja Q, the anti-deus-ex-machina remix. What if the Q Continuum had not intervened in any way after Q's selfless act?
Type: Gen
Rating: PG
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Maybe.
3. Twin Poles: Journeyman of Magnetism (http://www.alara.net/xbooks/twin.html)
Fandom(s): X-Men Comics
Description: My version of the origin of the character Joseph.
Type: Mostly gen.
Rating: PG-13.
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Maybe.
4. Burning Time (http://alara-works.livejournal.com/5461.html#cutid1)
Fandom(s): Star Trek TNG
Description: Sequel to Guidance, an AU to "Only Human" above. Soran from "Generations" kidnaps Q. Is scheduled to have Picard, Guinan, and Kirk in major roles, as well as angst, torture, sacrifice, and entirely one-sided sexual fantasies.
Type: Slash.
Rating: R.
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Probably not.
5. Seventeen Things That Might Have Happened To Q: (http://www.alara.net/trek/17things.html)
Fandom(s): Star Trek
Description: Along the lines of the "Five Things" meme.
Type: Het *and* gen *and* slash.
Rating: PG-13.
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Yes.
6. The Prince In Winter (http://www.alara.net/ajer/amnesty/prince.html)
Fandom: X-Men Comics
Description: Joseph deals with Rogue's death.
Type: Het
Rating: PG
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Yes.
7. Beauty or the Beast (http://www.alara.net/ajer/amnesty/beautybeast.html)
Fandom: X-Men Comics
Description: Genderswap of Magneto's clone Joseph, and how a twenty-something amnesiac *woman* with Magneto's powers and fragments of his memories would have been seen very differently by the X-Men.
Type: Femslash.
Rating: PG-13.
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Maybe.
8. Do It Again 4: That Only A Mother (http://www.livejournal.com/users/alara_r/82666.html)
Fandom(s): Star Trek
Description: Do It Again is a series of stories set in an AU deliberately created by Q, in which Q's appearance is female. The fourth story involves Q and Tasha Yar immediately after Yar's death.
Type: Mostly gen.
Rating: PG-13 or R.
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Yes.
9. Judgement Day: (http://www.alara.net/trek/judgement_day.html) Churchill's Black Dog
Fandom(s): Star Trek
Description: Judgement Day is a series of stories set in an AU where Q's side lost the civil war in the Continuum, and humanity was confined to Earth. This, the only of the pieces here that has actually not been begun, is Picard's story.
Type: Gen.
Rating: PG-13.
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Yes.
10. The Wolf and the Hound (http://www.alara.net/ajer/amnesty/wolfhound.html)
Fandom: X-Men Comics
Description: After Xavier's apparent death during Magneto's trial, Magneto and Scott Summers end up being co-headmasters of the New Mutants.
Type: Gen, maybe het
Rating: PG
Likely to finish in 15,000 words?: Maybe.