Writing fanfiction so you can novel?

Sounds weird right? Write fanfiction so you can novel, sounds counter productive.

And I’ve yet to find a better way to get to know my characters than to put them in a pre-made fictional world like Merlin or Harry Potter or something more story appropriate and write a crossover. Most of the time this takes place post action of the story for me.

Take my current WIP, I’ve got a Harry Potter crossover that’ll never see the light of day in the works. I’ve discovered that Reg is a total sarcastic asshat when he wants to be; and Tanner and Carson, friends of the family, totally fuel his sarcasm. I don’t know how Topher put up with it for going on twenty years now. Then again, sarcasm tends to just run strong in my characters.

The point is, writing crossovers with similar fandoms has not only helped me get to know my characters, it’s inspired me in different scenes.

On noveling: location change

I recently relocated one of my WIPs, it was set in Colorado, now it’s been relocated to North Carolina and Virginia. I’m kind of glad for the relocation, it really changed things up and will work better for the plot in the long run.

On the flip side, the title really has to get changed because I believe Nicholas Sparks has a book by the same title and everyone knows that all of his books are set in North Carolina. Okay, not everyone knows that, but my mom’s read practically all of his books and my sister’s seen practically all of the movies so I’ve seen parts of them by proxy, trust me, they’re all set in North Carolina with possibly one exception.

Master WIP post to follow, y’all should know what stories I’m talking about.

On Stage Managing

Dear Christ, what can I say about stage managing that hasn’t been said anywhere else?

How about don’t do it if you’re a student, English writing studies major, have three projects due within days of each other, and the performances are right before finals week.

Seriously, and people keep changing up due dates on me, so when I finished and printed a final copy of a paper that I thought was due today, April 29, 2014, I found out that it was actually due Thursday. Last week I had a project I thought was due Thursday and rushed to finish it after losing all progress on Wednesday. No, it’s actually due this coming Thursday too. And don’t get me started on finding time to study for finals. Thank God my Science Fiction professor told us what the three questions on the final are going to be about: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Eater, and three short stories he gave us. So I don’t have to waste time studying the other books we read this semester.

Oh, and I have to do a presentation during lab about chocolate slime and I have no idea what’s scientific about that. I should probably look it up rather than write this post.

Anyway, enough complaining about my life. Come and see Our Town at Millersville University in the Winter Center on May 1-4, May 1-3 at 7:30, May 4 at 2:30. Tickets are $10 I believe. I’ll either be in a cute little dress or a suit depending on how I feel like presenting that day.