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boogieshoes ([personal profile] boogieshoes) wrote2006-03-01 01:51 am
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summer writing commitments

x-posted to lj-comm = longfic; posted here because that comm is flocked.

well, the good news is, i got a job within my field, so i feel like i can make some sort of commitment to progress on the TS AU thing that's been burning in my brain. the bad news is, i don't think i can write much actual story by the end of summer - i just write too slowly, and have too many other things to do this year (including moving and buying my first house - in new orleans!).

but i would like to make some kind of public commitment to progress. so, i think i can get most of the major research done for it, and a coherent global timeline worked out. this is important because it's basically a long disaster story :-p.

it's going to involve a ground invasion by the chinese - i think i can get work out time-tables and research appropriate chinese tactics to use by end of summer.

most of all, i think i can write a coherent 'introductory' chapter/story, introducing all of the characters, explaining the pending disasters - well, the ones the characters know of, which are the impending chinese invasion and the satnet problems. i think i'll let the supervolcanoes and massive earthquakes be a surprise to most everyone.

so that's my commitment: by this summer's end, i want to have a good intro chapter written, and the majority of my research and timelines finished so i know where i'm going, when. with whom might require more thought.

-boogieshoes

[identity profile] cordova829.livejournal.com 2006-03-01 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
need help? i'm here.

[identity profile] boogieshoes.livejournal.com 2006-03-01 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
i'm sure i will. tactics, strategy, what i can fudge, and what won't go. probably need some research help as i'm rather abysmal on search strings. and i might need help getting my notes in some sort of coherent order. it's all mental, right now. i know where i want to start, and i know where i want to end... the middle is entirely fuzzy ::rollseyes::

this won't help *you* get published, but should be lotsa fun for me.

::hugs:: thanks

-bs

[identity profile] cordova829.livejournal.com 2006-03-01 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
i know it won't help me. but at least i'll get a "thanks" in the book. or at least red-shirted.

(Anonymous) 2006-03-01 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be glad to take a look at it as well. Plus feel free to ask for military info, etc.

[identity profile] boogieshoes.livejournal.com 2006-03-02 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
thanks, Jason :)