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That sounds like a great idea that would be a lot of fun!
Who doesn't have some WIPs laying around that need a little love and attention!

 

Just encountered another of my whumps.

Sudden ignition sound, eg. setting something alight with an accelerant, or a gas fire coming on.

 

Do works you'd always like to rewrite count? I have a fic that I've wanted to rewrite for about the last 15 years...

Needless to say it's not happened.

 

If you do it can we say that it counts.

 

Darth Sidious: "We will make it count!"

 

Definitely want to be it won’t be this year...got to finish usjs first.


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LJ had a similar challenge, and we used many colons, semi-colons, and ellipses ...

 

I have in the past, and while I can write a run-on sentence like you wouldn't believe, I'm really bad at them. You are right, it can be really hard to write a story that is so short. That being said, I've seen some amazing ones!

That could be a fun challenge on here as well! If you ever want to host some kind of challenge, you can PM any of us fanfic mods with your ideas and we'll discuss it with you.

 

Do anybody have the problem that when you design a culture you suddenly find yourself designing the nearby cultures so you know what kind of people they often interact with followed by you designing/working out what kind of historical interaction there has been in the area, what species should be common and which one should usually not be found there, etcetera? Or is this just me?

 

Hee, it's not just you because our minds pursue logic and it's natural to conjecture cause and effect. It's heaps of fun to make up cultures ...

 

This is a problem? You're playing in your own sandbox and expanding the world your inhabitants live in. It's a good thing.

 

It became a problem when it became to big, I should probably not have chosen to redesign something as big as a interstellar pirate nation, the Blazing Chain, in the Unknown Regions. Now I find myself designing the empire whose fall made the Blazing Chain's rise possible, with species members so I know what species are spread throughout the area, and working on interstellar groups that the Chain prey upon (who need something that makes them stand out). And when it comes to the species in the area do I have to create some new ones since I don't want to reuse the same old ones and since I'm me do they have to be somewhat different than just humans with strange foreheads and skin colours.

 

@Gamiel - I can empathise. However, if I had such a problem, and it was getting too much, I might create conditions that alleviated the issue.

Also, if you are creating this primarily as fanon to be used by other writers, the Blazing Chain by itself could be enough, and other writers can fill in the rest of the region as as they see fit, if they want to at all.

 

Honestly @Gamiel you don't have to do anything if you don't want to and you can choose how big you want your world to be and decide on what your focus should be. I think by factoring in all this other stuff, you're making it a bit overwhelming and complicated (which is exactly what I used to do!).
However, if you enjoy this level of complexity, what I would do is make a big poster and write things down in a big web diagram and how the species/cultures are connected to each other. Also make sure you know how 'big' this needs to be--if you get carried away by the little details you may miss the bigger pictures and how it relates to the story you want to tell.

Also agreed on what @Sith-I-5 said!

 

Since you were kind enough to jog my memory to recall BC's name, I prescribe this Rx for TFF (Temporary Fandom Fatigue): a quick dunk into another fandom as a reset button. A plus is the talents of Neil Patrick Harris and Callista Flockhart guest starring in:

 

A lot of good stuff in there, @devilinthedetails

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Here's topic: Broken trust and how it is to be restored. Has anyone written a story featuring a broken trust, only to later receive forgiveness and restoration. I realize that this a heavy theme in Star Wars, but I'm thinking more generally of how amends can be made and what caused the loss of trust in the first place?

If there are not specific examples, please feel free to join the discussion as you like.

 

The first long fic I wrote (Gravity Falls based) was largely about broken trust. I tried to make the motivations as understandable as I could, and by the finale there's no animosity between the protagonists.

Then when I wrote a sequel to that there were some points where I felt the characters were now getting along too well, since they'd put all the negative stuff behind them