Hello, readers of my poor, neglected fic blog! I haven't updated this much lately because I haven't made much progress on my writing projects. I've been distracted with other things.
But, with new shows for two of my fandoms out or coming out, my urge to write has come back hard. My husband is a big fan of audio books, and he convinced me to start encoding my stories as mp3s with Text Aloud. It's a nice program. I've had to create a massive pronunciation dictionary to fix some of it's quirky pronunciation of fandom names, but the more I use it, the more I like it. Not only does it save time reading at the computer, but hearing your stuff narrated is a great way of proofreading. Typos and repetitious wording become very obvious when you're listening to it.
As far as specific fic projects go, my husband has been urging me to pick up my Thundercats stories again. He and I are both pretty excited about the new series coming out (June 29 on Cartoon Network!) and it's made me take a look at the stories I last tinkered with circa 2008, before I got drawn into the Darkwing Duck fandom. He's rallying for me to finish my epic-length, started-in-1998-and-still-unfinished Path Into the Darkness. It's tempting.
Alternately, reading the A Song of Ice and Fire books keeps inspiring me for Voltron and my Chronicles of a Dark Planet series. The new Voltron Force show doesn't have much for the Doom fan, but it does have a few elements that get me thinking about the Voltron universe and what fun could be done with it in fanfic. I love their take on Hunk's character. They've made him a lot more like I picture him outside of the shallower, more stereotyped way he was portrayed in the original. So far "The Hunkyard" is my favorite episode. I'd also like to write in a believable backstory for Larmina to explain why only-child, unmarried Allura suddenly has a niece. It might also be fun to try to write Larmina without having her be as over the top canon Sue-ish as she is in the Voltron Force show.
But then there are also my Darkwing Duck projects! I have so much I'd like to do in the fic-verse that Tension Convention kicks off. I want to write out romantic drama coming up in Drake and Morgana's relationship, and get to their eventual wedding. (Yeah, if you don't like that pairing, you probably won't like my fics. I won't be breaking them up or blipping Morgana off to oblivion. Bad comics! Bad!) I want to write out the storyline I have planned where Camille is a main villain, because she's too awesome to just be a one-shot character. I want to see Brooke Flood become a Muddlefoot, and play around more with Liquidator's estranged children and his ex. I want to continue on where the Fearsome Four left off. I want to write Loopy as Darkwing's temporary sidekick driving him up a wall while Launchpad is off duty healing up (and getting to know Heather better), and I really can't wait to write out some of the fallout from that. Neither Darkwing nor Bushroot will like their relationship one bit.
So, yes, my mind is reeling with too much that I want to write and instead of actually doing it, I'm just babbling about it in my blog. And on that note, I ought to end this entry and go open a word file now and see if I can get anywhere.
