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NO, B! Do not take your stupid A/U and make a really crackpot original novel about time travel out of it! This is not a good idea! This is not going to work! This is not going to be worth doing! This is not something that is going to be in a genre you can sell! And it’s probably not going to have a happy ending anyway! So don’t do it!
ARRRGHGHGHGHH.
see I was gonna end the Found Cat prequel with Shara finally getting to realize her dream of being an astronaut only to die in a test flight, which would neatly work out the canon issue, and also would be GREAT angst, but incidentally makes this Not A Romance Novel and not really sellable in any way, but then
what if she time-traveled and pops back up 20 years later
what a rich and juicy mine of emotions that would be. and how fascinating a story to tell.
also.
no.
I have of course already written in my head about eight amazing scenes, first of all Kes confronting a suicidal engineer who felt he screwed up Shara’s test flight and basically browbeating the guy into living because if Kes had to live with this so did Engineer, setting them up for an amazing 20-year relationship of Kes sending vaguely threatening notes to the guy that all say i hope you’re doing better and outsiders think it’s sweet but it’s really Kes yelling at the man to fucking learn something from the mistake, right? What a great relationship that would be.
and i wrote the scene, in the car this morning in my head of course, where Kes has to call Poe and say, kid, I need you to come here, NASA called me and I need you to come, and Poe’s like, what is it, and Kes is like, I can’t tell you over the phone, and Poe is like oh whatever it is has upset him so much i’d better go be strong for him it’s my turn to help my dad oh boy, and he shows up all resolved to help his father through whatever this relevation is– he’s assuming that NASA discovered that, like, the test flight failed differently than they thought and so they’ve just realized that Shara suffered horribly, or something (there was never a body to bury, maybe they finally found remains, ugh how horrible, he’s mostly over it but his father’s gotta be devastated, that’s why he sounded so weird on the phone) so he’s all ready to Be Strong And Help Poor Dad and he gets off the plane and his mom is standing there and he– well, I didn’t write that part, but it’d be good.
In short no, I really don’t have the emotional energy to write this, because as a fanfic it will get like, 20 notes, and as an original novel it doesn’t fit into any genres so I don’t even know how I’d sell it, but.
Sigh.
The worst part is that even the part I have written doesn’t fit at all with Found Cat because that was at least nominally fluff and there’s zero fucking fluff in that backstory, but.
*sighs until she turns inside out*
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NO, B! Do not take your stupid A/U and make a really crackpot original novel about time travel out of it! This is not a good idea! This is not going to work! This is not going to be worth doing! This is not something that is going to be in a genre you can sell! And it’s probably not going to have a happy ending anyway! So don’t do it!
ARRRGHGHGHGHH.
see I was gonna end the Found Cat prequel with Shara finally getting to realize her dream of being an astronaut only to die in a test flight, which would neatly work out the canon issue, and also would be GREAT angst, but incidentally makes this Not A Romance Novel and not really sellable in any way, but then
what if she time-traveled and pops back up 20 years later
what a rich and juicy mine of emotions that would be. and how fascinating a story to tell.
also.
no.
I have of course already written in my head about eight amazing scenes, first of all Kes confronting a suicidal engineer who felt he screwed up Shara’s test flight and basically browbeating the guy into living because if Kes had to live with this so did Engineer, setting them up for an amazing 20-year relationship of Kes sending vaguely threatening notes to the guy that all say i hope you’re doing better and outsiders think it’s sweet but it’s really Kes yelling at the man to fucking learn something from the mistake, right? What a great relationship that would be.
and i wrote the scene, in the car this morning in my head of course, where Kes has to call Poe and say, kid, I need you to come here, NASA called me and I need you to come, and Poe’s like, what is it, and Kes is like, I can’t tell you over the phone, and Poe is like oh whatever it is has upset him so much i’d better go be strong for him it’s my turn to help my dad oh boy, and he shows up all resolved to help his father through whatever this relevation is– he’s assuming that NASA discovered that, like, the test flight failed differently than they thought and so they’ve just realized that Shara suffered horribly, or something (there was never a body to bury, maybe they finally found remains, ugh how horrible, he’s mostly over it but his father’s gotta be devastated, that’s why he sounded so weird on the phone) so he’s all ready to Be Strong And Help Poor Dad and he gets off the plane and his mom is standing there and he– well, I didn’t write that part, but it’d be good.
In short no, I really don’t have the emotional energy to write this, because as a fanfic it will get like, 20 notes, and as an original novel it doesn’t fit into any genres so I don’t even know how I’d sell it, but.
Sigh.
The worst part is that even the part I have written doesn’t fit at all with Found Cat because that was at least nominally fluff and there’s zero fucking fluff in that backstory, but.
*sighs until she turns inside out*
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