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Post by Cy Otauna on Mar 6, 2006 8:24:26 GMT -5
So why is it that people feel compelled to improve/continue/find the Plot of such an engrossing fanverse (thanks for the word, Hobbit-eyes) as that of Star Wars? I figured we could have this for any series/creation, but here there can be some Shamless Advertisement for the Jeditype fanfiction. Give a summary of your story, a link, and more importantly what about the fanverse made you write this. Is it a scene you'd always wished to see? A remake of what Mr. Lucas did wrong in RotS? Sweet revenge on a certain red-haired female? I'll do some in the near future...
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Mar 9, 2006 20:00:03 GMT -5
I'm giving you all the Jedi.net link for a certain amount of bias against fanfiction.net... Mirrormath: The New Sith OrderRating: The border between PG and PG 13 (for violence, use of damn and hell as swearwords, and intensive emotional *not romantic, but angst and intensity* content) Summary: We start out in the Phantom Menace, within the moments where a group of Jedi (and Jedi to be) run towards a Nubian ship and a Sith attacks. The tiniest alteration, the simple existance of something else... and they're cast forward in time, to a time where the galaxy struggles to survive after the devastation of the Vong wars, to a time where Luke Skywalker leads the Jedi...and to a time when things aren't all what they seem. Things change in both timelines; a third timeline whispers of deceit and death; the Force abandons one, and, in another, one destined to be the galaxy's greatest horror may turn out greatly different. Why I wrote this story: Simply, I wanted to know what went on after the NJO. I started this before the whole insect stories were out, and I like my take better. Basically, two things... the TPM characters ROCK (Maulcoughcough), and someone suggested somewhere how much better the NJO would've been as the new SITH order. Basically, it's what I thought should've happened... yes, it's AU by far, but it's more palatable than the later books. ...And writing this review inspires me for my next chapter. I KNEW there was a character I was neglecting...
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Post by Cy Otauna on Mar 9, 2006 21:02:03 GMT -5
What do you find wrong with Fanfiction.Net? I really wanna read your fic above, but it's taking a long time to load. No time now.
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Mar 9, 2006 21:22:38 GMT -5
It's on fanfiction.net as well, if it loads faster... Jedi.net can take a bit to load, sometimes. Heh. I just simply dislike the unfriendly enviorment offered by ff.net, and the fact that I was bloody well BANNED once... heh... and I get more reviews on Jedi.net.
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Post by Cy Otauna on Mar 10, 2006 10:45:35 GMT -5
Dying Dream is what I am working on now. I wanted something shortish but sustaning, as I am focusing on OFs, and couldn't resist setting up Luke vs. Darth Maul. SNRK. I wrote Luke 1st person in Visionary as well, (that one is a similar "it would rock if I could see this...Luke+Boga=incredible awesomeness"--funny how we write to see, not to create--) and wanted to work more on it. Also DD is more angsty for him because it's right before the founding of the Jedi academy, (slightly AU) and he's unsure about his place in politics or whether this big mission is going to completed. Now he accompanies Leia to a diplomatic meeting on Naboo and begins to feel tremors of the dark side...coming inexplicably and unstoppably from himself. I'm not sure where it's going, but it is going somewhere. Rebellion is to see whether I can write publishable romance (and apparently I can but no one cares about LukeOC when they've got ObiDala or somesuch, snrk). Eowyn, after going through and discarding some of your beta suggestions I ended up doing a lot of the same things myself later anyway...thanks. The fic is some OT vignettes too. *out of time again*
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Mar 10, 2006 18:28:11 GMT -5
Read and reviewed the first one... whee... (falls over) I was tired when I reviewed it. NSO sets up Luke vs Maul too...
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Post by Hobbit-eyes on Mar 12, 2006 11:42:31 GMT -5
squee someone used my word!
I don't dare write Star Wars fanfic for fear of getting something wrong...
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Post by Cy Otauna on Mar 13, 2006 15:30:24 GMT -5
Aw! Why not just set it up as an AU then? Or one of us fine adminnies might have time to beta you. *spaces out thinking about this certain setup* Oh right! *lightbulb!* Tiana are you going to critique the fic you read? *Puss in Boots eyes* Or just tempt me with the possibility? Snrk.
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Post by Master Warious on Mar 13, 2006 19:12:18 GMT -5
SPEAKING OF FANFICS....DARK LORDS 15 IS UP NOW!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Cy Otauna on Mar 14, 2006 15:22:53 GMT -5
I checked out Mirrormath and will read at least the first couple chapters later. Looks good--tell me more about Jedi.net, I might join. You write so much; where'd all that time for fanfic come into the continuum? I have changed my priorities around. No long fanfic--it's not doing me any good in the long run. I have 3 novels to choose from, sound Plots all so far, so can't do other people's worlds intensely. But a long, long time ago I could write this; The Alternate Saga, my novel-length probably favorite fanfic I've written of all time. I got so into this one--the writing improves as you go along, cause it took me like a year, but I do have some edited stuff not yet up. This one sets into the AU framework (I still don't like it's name. Suggestions for something better will stil be taken, though I'll call it TAS forever in my brain.) the concept of a time machine, invented by an Imperial scientist, that is actually a universe-machine. It transports Luke Skywalker into a reality where the Empire won the Galactic Civil War at the battle of Yavin. Now Jedi and others (a smattering of original characters) work on both sides to understand what's happening, and survive it. Featuring: Corran Horn, Mara Jade vs. Kit Fisto, nearly all the OT characters, and some more.
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Post by Morgana Le Fay on Mar 23, 2006 9:58:35 GMT -5
Oooh, sweet stuff. Sounds good. I'll get to reading it... outta time now.
Mine usually is seeing how much I can fit into the already established AU w/o ruining the already plotline... typical. Sometimes it's totally insane. I've only gotten 2 - the Metafic and another one which I have sworn to burn, but haven't yet - completed. But I'll have some better FFs around.... soon... Plotlines abound!!
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Mar 23, 2006 17:26:13 GMT -5
I've got a new one I need to advertise, but I'll do that later... Did you want a critique? I'll gladly do one as soon as I can get time/remember to. And, yes, Hobbit-eyes, if you dare do a SW one, I WILL beta on characterizations a bit. Or at least give you a hard critique before posting, if you want. I've become a very hard reviewer to those who will accept my doing so. The first few chapters are horrible on Mirrormath, but I'm rewriting them. (it's NSO in my brain... meep) I really don't write that much, look at the post date. I've been on that story for over a year, I think. Or pretty close to it. Simply, I type at 70 WPM, and I can churn out a chapter in a few hours. I'll sacrifice sleep for writing, and though I can't do internet stuff as late anymore, I can write late... internet cutoffs and stuff. Heh. Basically for me and my writing, it's a careful balance. I love writing more than anything else I do and therefore I'll spend more time focused on that idea. I time myself carefully and manage to get my writing done when I want to do it, even if I have to let the betaing and graphics and forums slip aside for a while. But I write exceedingly fast (people can watch me write and I'll reel out a 9 page chapter in a day no problem... the 2000 words I was doing a day for Nanowrimo was hardly a challenge, it was just keeping writing that was). So that's how I manage it. I really don't have that much time anymore. But I don't enjoy reading so much as I used to. (sigh) That's probably why I haven't been reading and reviewing much for other people. Jedi.net is a forum. It's a big forum. Decent RP, inspired MEI's RPing boards. Fanfiction is friendly on there. Some of the guys are perverts, but it's a good site. I'm semi-loyal to it, really.
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Post by Cy Otauna on Mar 29, 2006 8:06:38 GMT -5
Yeah, I guess critique me...I was thinking you'd want to review DD.
I've read the first three chapters or so of NSO, hardcopy, and have written comments all over them and will PM you sometime with this 'review'! It's pretty entertaining.
I understand what you mean about finding time because you care about it so much.
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Jun 7, 2006 18:56:31 GMT -5
Scan in what you've done. And read the replaced version of chapter 1 on Jedi.net, will you? But give me a really mean review for the next two chapters... tear them apart... I want help redoing them, and a mean review will do the trick. A new advertisement! I'll probably post this one on MEI... it's my baby... Autumn's GameA Star Wars mystery. It doesn't touch canon, if I can help it, doesn't have a thing to do with Jedi... whee! Orlin Wells (I resisted the urge to swipe Orlan from Audreidi... but yes) is a private investagator on Coruscant. Hired by a woman now dead, he's got a mystery to solve—that no one even necessarily feels like telling him what he's solving. With his only potential clue a young Kauti boy, he must decypher the game he's been thrust into and come out alive to prove it, too. A supernatural mystery mildly inspired by the Nightside series by Simon R. Green. It's first person, not necessarily in any timeline (at least yet, though I can say it's probably TPM time), and very, very different. Rating: PG for the use of bloody and potentially implied abusive themes. Why I'm writing this story: Because I blasted well haven't read a good Star Wars mystery, or a Star Wars story that didn't concern itself with canon, interferring with canon, and Jedi. This story will HAVE NO JEDI. Grawr! Actually, it was the result of a challenge on Jedi.net in which we were to use five different words somewhere in the story. They were "cruiser, galaxy, knight, case, and regal". Heh. Case inspired me, as did knight... Nonetheless, I wanted to see a very different story, and decided to do it myself. Note to self on NSO: Palpatine, dammit!! PALPATINE!!!! Don't. Just don't.
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