Star Trek: Overwatch

One of my passions, is science fiction. And Star Trek (and Forbidden Planet) kind of began science fiction as something more than just daft stories for kids, a way to tell current morality tales, but set them in the future. (Not to say Star trek didn't get daft - Spock's Brain anyone?)

You could say Star Trek started fan fiction in the western world as well.

About 4 years ago now, I started to think about writing a Star Trek FF. It would follow the crew of a starship set in the TOS movie era. This ship would be destroyed in the opening moments, and the crew forced to survive on a planet surface until aid arrives. Then I started to expand the story. What if this ship was on detachment to a Starbase? The starbase could be the source of many stories beyond this one. So I put the starbase near the Romulan neutral zone and called it Starbase 23. I then moved it into the TOS era.

Then I discovered the novel series Star Trek: Vanguard, and I saw similarities between it and what I wanted to do. So I abandoned the idea.

Recently I found those old files. Character sheets, story outlines. There was a lot there. I decided to begin to write it again. If it's similar to Vanguard, then so what? I want tell a story, and I want to tell my story. The story I developed those four years ago.

I decided to embrace the Vanguard series, and even base the starbase off of the Watchtower class. I called it the Guardtower class. I even made a pic in relation to the Watchtower.

And a schematic

And deck listing

Why do all this? I like to build the world i'm going to be writing in. I like to be consistent, and if I have information detailed, it lowers the risk significantly, that it won't change later on.

Yeah, i'm a nerd :)

JG

Fallout Fan Fiction AaD Pictures

So I made some pictures for my fan fiction story that is currently on hiatus. I find that being able to see the characters helps me, when describing them.

Regina
With a rifle

Scott & Oliver

I am splitting the stories, Each character will have a "book". and each book will be part of a volume.
Volume one will have a book for Scott, Mason and Regina each. While Volume two will continue on from there with the Brotherhood, and return to the other characters. I have an idea for how each of their stories in volume one will end, and how it effects volume two.
JG

Fallout: Ash and Dirt - Fan fiction story changes and Elder Scrolls TotBatB Cover

For a while I've been thinking about splitting the four stories in this one "novel" (in quotes as can one call a fan fiction a novel?) into four actual separate "novels". I think it will make it easier on both me the writer and the you reader if I do this. Not only is the cast of each story going to increase, but the Brotherhood of Steel Story Arch will feature a huge cast, and I know it will get too complex to keep track of characters from chapter to chapter, especially when there's a three chapter gap between them.

I also have to keep a close eye on dates. Each chapter, I feel, has to be set at the same time or later than the previous. This limits what I can do and feel that if one were to lag behind in date than the other than it would be weird. To separate them means I can be more concise and it will be more fluid and easier to follow.

I'll try and figure out exactly what it is I'll be doing at a later date, but for now I'm going to put the story on a short hiatus until I can figure out how to properly do it.

TotBatB

For my Elder Scrolls fan fiction, I've finished part one (Probably still a load of errors I have yet to find) and I made a cover for it.

On Fanfiction.net the images are teeny tiny, so here it is in big. Maybe I'll point people who read my stories (all 4 of them D:) to here. Or maybe someone just taking a gander through the blogosphere will find this interesting, who knows.

The full size image of the original is something like 1651 -2476 and photobucket didn't seem to like that, so this image is 600 - 900.

JG