Check-in + chat plans

[luzula]

Hello AU-makers! I hope you've all had a chance to check out the works from the first round (which reminds me, there's still one I haven't read).

There are now 8 weeks left to the second posting weekend and 18 to the third one! So, do you know what you're making? I know some of you are working on longer works that you posted a teaser for in the first round. How's the progress with those? If you're making something new, do you know what, and have you started work on it? Feel free to use this space to brainstorm. : )

I thought we'd have a brainstorming and support chat on Saturday May 4th, at 19.00 UTC (what time is this for me?). If you want to chat, please comment and tell me if the time works!

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[seascribble]

The last chat was super helpful for me (although I haven't had a chance to work on all of the ideas yet). I'll probably be late to this one because work is stupid, but if it's still going when I get home, I'll try to pop in.

[brigantine]

Yipe! 8 weeks isn't really all that long. Well, it doesn't seem like it.

On the up side, I've got a lot of ideas for the fic rattling around in my brain. On the down side, they're rattling round in my brain, not organized on the page. Heh. Oops.

I'mma see if I can make some progress on throwing down a rough draft this weekend. *cracks knuckles and looks determined*

If this thing works out the way I'm hoping, it should be fun to put together. :)

[garonne]

Ooh, I'm looking forward to the chat. 19h UTC and one hour later are both fine for me :)

As for my fic... well, it's progressing about as fast as a glacier, but hey, that's better than not progressing at all, right?

[ride_4ever]

Starting the Skype chat one hour later would increase my chances of participating, but I still can't be 100% sure I'll make it. Ironically, the schedule conflict itself is related to the writing of dS AU...I have an appointment with a travel agent at just about the same time as the Skype chat, and the appointment is to plan my trip from the States to England to spend several weeks IRL with ButterflyGhost to work on our AU for the dS C6D BB.

[sage]

Hi I am back! \o/

I'll be around all day on the 4th, so whenever chat happens is great.

I made another character this week, except for the antennae, which need blocking. If RL issues cooperate, I should be able to finally make some real progress here. Knock wood.

[luzula]

Well, I didn't end up finishing my podfic collaboration with Inga for the last round, because she got a cold. So we'll definitely be doing that for this round instead.

Other than that, I don't know. I've started work on my Temeraire fusion again, but depending on how much it grows, it might end up becoming my Big Bang instead. Anyway, I doubt it'll be done by the second round of posting even if it doesn't grow to 20,000 words.

I do also have other AU ideas. For example, I have a prequel to the Fraser/Thatcher-in-space snippets I've been writing in my head, although to be honest I worry that the "in space" will be kind of pasted on, since it's mostly about romance and partnership. I'd have to work on the relevance of the setting if it's not just to be a story that could just as well have been set in ordinary canon, only with added spaceships. Also, I don't know if I'd have time to do that fic along with the Temeraire one, because the F/T one would definitely be 5,000-10,000 words long.

Hmm, what else. There's my SF AU with actual worldbuilding and SF-relevant plot, but I'm saving that for next year's Big Bang if there is one. So I might do another podfic for this round? Or hey, maybe I should write a bit of that Caroline-survives-and-becomes-a-Mountie idea from the brainstorming post. It would satisfy my id, at least. : )

[garonne]

I'm an idiot. I've realised I'm not free this Saturday at all. I'm going to the opera - which I organised ages and ages ago and which I'm very excited about and everything, BUT… *sigh* That makes three chats in a row I've missed, counting the C6D Big Bang one too.

You guys have fun, and hopefully next time it'll be a case of fourth time lucky… :)

[ride_4ever]

Now I'm sure that I'm going to miss this chat (see dS-related explanation above). My co-writer, ButterflyGhost, may be representing the both of us here as she just did for the dSC6D BB chat that I had to miss.

Both chats were at a day and time that's really good for me...when IRL doesn't interfere.