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[wyndewalker]

Looking for someone to bounce story ideas with

I know when I’m active on here I really only post Pacific Rim stuff but I have a non-PR epic length crossover story that I really need help plotting. 

Very very basic premise: They have roughly two years to prepare for the impending apocalypse ala the movie 2012. I call it a pre-Apocalypse story.

Main fandoms: Stargate SG-1/SGA, BTVS, Iron Man/Avengers no-superpowers AU Secondary fandoms: Arrow, Eureka, Losers, possibly Numb3rs Main POV Characters: Jack O’Neill(SG-1), John Sheppard(SGA), Xander Harris(BTVS), Tony Stark(IM)

I don’t plan for any explicit sex scenes but there will be a range of relationships from het to slash with one or two possible threesomes.

The plan is to plot/outline and write a 22 episode season or two 13 episode seasons with two to four plots/major sub-plots running simultaneously. Estimated expected word length 200-300k words.

My only major requirement is that you be familiar with Stargate SG-1 and SGA as they’re the main universe.

If you’re interested please PM me. Thanks!

[thtnrdjck]

[wyndewalker]

Need help with a story title

I'm trying to name my 2014 NaNo story. I'd planned to call it Wake as in 'to wake up'. But lately I've been associating the word wake with funerals as in funeral wake. Totally not the word association I want going on.

Very basic plot synopsis: After the battle with Knifehead Raleigh wakes up to find it's the morning before the battle and Yancy is still alive. He's constantly reliving the day and battle trying to save his brother. The only problem is: if he dies time resets, if Yancy dies time resets, if Anchorage is hit time resets. Then this Australian kid shows up with a story Raleigh doesn't believe.

My current thoughts are:

Wake Me From Hell Wake From Hell Wake To Hell

Thoughts?

[skygenders]

Cats and Tumblr

[goodbyewindowstiredstarlings]

The one with its face in the lamp

[flmblr]

[wyndewalker]

this is a test because tumblr is not putting my own posts on my dash so I don't know that they're actually being posted.

[wyndewalker]

Where My Demons Hide on AO3

Where My Demons Hide (74991 words) by Wyndewalker Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: Pacific Rim (2013) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raleigh Becket/Chuck Hansen, Hercules Hansen/Stacker Pentecost Characters: Mako Mori, Sasha Kaidanovsky, Aleksis Kaidanovsky, Jin Wei, Hu Wei, Cheung Wei, Tendo Choi Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Mpreg, discussion of miscarriage, Knotting, Canon deaths, Chuck Lives Summary:

When Yancy Becket died still connected to Raleigh in the Drift, Raleigh lost everything, including part of his soul. Unable to deal with the reminders and accusations that he'd killed his Alpha Guardian brother Raleigh fled the Anchorage Shatterdome.

Five years later Raleigh Becket is living a half-life waiting for the wrong move to send him plummeting to his death on the Wall. Then Marshal Pentecost, his former commanding officer, tracks him down for one final mission against the alien Kaiju. Raleigh decides the conn-pod of a Jaeger is as good a place to die as any.

He never expected to care again. He certainly didn't expect to find his Alpha.

[wyndewalker]

Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: Pacific Rim (2013) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Raleigh Becket/Chuck Hansen, Hercules Hansen/Stacker Pentecost Characters: Mako Mori, Sasha Kaidanovsky, Aleksis Kaidanovsky, Jin Wei, Hu Wei, Cheung Wei, Tendo Choi Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Mpreg, discussion of miscarriage, Knotting, Canon deaths, Chuck Lives Summary:

When Yancy Becket died still connected to Raleigh in the Drift, Raleigh lost everything, including part of his soul. Unable to deal with the reminders and accusations that he'd killed his Alpha Guardian brother Raleigh fled the Anchorage Shatterdome.

Five years later Raleigh Becket is living a half-life waiting for the wrong move to send him plummeting to his death on the Wall. Then Marshal Pentecost, his former commanding officer, tracks him down for one final mission against the alien Kaiju. Raleigh decides the conn-pod of a Jaeger is as good a place to die as any.

He never expected to care again. He certainly didn't expect to find his Alpha.

[blandmarvelheadcanons]

Pepper and JARVIS had to stage an intervention after Tony saw Pacific Rim.

[archiemcphee]

[rainyapparitions]

go home

this wins Halloween

[mamalazzer]

The Avengers as a Western

Steve is the Sheriff. Clint is his deputy. Tony is the Blacksmith. Natasha runs the Saloon. Bruce is the physician with a split personality and Thor gets into a hell of a lot of tavern brawls.

Together, however, they manage to bring order to the once corrupt town of Triskelion.

[markruffalo]

Remember The Avengers as a 70s Cop Drama? A Western might be cooler.

[nimblesnotebook-blog]

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[wyndewalker]

Multifandom Extreme Big Bang

I'm helping to co-mod and participating in this awesome Big Bang challenge with hoktauri and gwyneth_valora and hope some of you might think about signing up.

What is it: An extreme writing challenge of 100,000 words written within 10 months. Or an extreme artistic challenge of 1 - 3 min+ fanvid, 1 - 30 min+ fanmix or 4 illustrations/graphics done over the same time period. Please see the Rules and Faqs for more detailed information.

When is it: Sign-ups run Sept. 15th to Oct 13th, 2014. Posting begins on July 27th, 2015. Author Sign Up | Artist Sign Up | Beta Sign Up

Where is it: http://extreme-bigbang.livejournal.com/

Why you should do it: Well, bragging rights for one. It'll be fun and we have all sorts of great mini-challenges and fun events planned for the length of the challenge.

A couple of quick FAQs: -Can I work with another author? Yes, two authors can collaborate on a story/stories together. You only have to write 100,000 words between the two of you. -Is it fanfiction only or can I write original fiction? Original fiction is totally welcome. -I'm an artist, do I claim a story now or later or can I do something completely on my own? It's your choice. You can work completely on your own. Or if you see a story in the author sign-ups that you're interested in creating art for you may contact the author directly about collaborating from the start with them. Otherwise stories available for claiming will have a synopsis posted in April.

[hanukkahlewinsky]

getting notes on a selfie

[never-let--it-die-deactivated20]

accurate

[wyndewalker]

Where My Demons Hide Update

So, clearly I did not make my late May/early June intended posting date. I ran into the slight issue of one beta waited a month to tell me they weren't going to be able to work on it and the other completely ignored my request to ignore grammar and focus on plot and characterization and only did grammar. Sigh.

Luckily, since about June I've been working with the awesome Raine_Wynd and we are now in the home stretch. Two scenes to finish editing and then a final spelling and grammar check. Short of a major catastrophe I will be ready to post to AO3 on October 1st.

Thank you to everyone who read Demons in it's rough draft and I hope you enjoy the final version.

I will be doing NaNoWriMo and Rough Trade again this year but I will not be posting my story anywhere other than Rough Trade due to the fact that it is also being done for Extreme Big Bang and posting for that doesn't begin until July 2015. For those who might be interested I'll have more in separate posts about my planned project and Extreme Big Bang.

Thanks again!

[kingbellamy]

DO YOU KNOW THAT KIND OF WRITER’S BLOCK WHERE YOU ALREADY HAVE A PLOT, YOU KNOW WHAT TO WRITE BUT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO WRITE IT AND YOU JUST STARE AT THE COMPUTER SCREEN FOR HOURS UNTIL YOU FINALLY CLOSE THE DOCUMENT AND CURSE YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE 

CAUSE I DO 

[emlary]

(x)

[wyndewalker]

As much as I loathe 50 Shades of Crap this is why he would have made an awesome Christian Grey.