Here's my Master List of stories for Stargate Atlantis.

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Made some progress this week!

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One of my goals this year is to try working on some original fic. I've got a number of ideas that I've been pondering, and a few I think might hold some promise. This has started me thinking on what I would name my possible main characters. In fanfic, the main characters already have names; the only names I've had to come up with have been extra characters or antagonists. I'm not saying I don't put thought into their names, but the idea of naming an original character who is going to carry an entire story...that just seems very daunting to me...

What goes into naming a character? Should names evoke something or say something about that character? Or do you figure out how old they are, what year they would have been born and go with one of the most popular names of that year? I'm looking at these blank characters and thinking, "I could name them anything I want," followed quickly by, "That's millions of possibilities!"

Just curious what other people think of character names, either in your own writing or in stories/books you've read...

On writing stuff in general, not just the big story...

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Here's my weekly update, aka. rambling, on my long story...

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I've been inspired by kristen999 and hope she doesn't mind me following her lead on doing weekly writing updates (let me know if you do!) for my current project.

( Rambling about writing )

I am mildly curious about the new show "Human Target" which premieres tonight on Fox. Apparently it's based on a graphic novel and promises lots of action. I was a little disappointed with the new shows that came out this year (and where did they all go, anyway?), but some that are into their second and third seasons have been satisfying enough. I'd love to see a brand-new show grab my attention.

Anyone planning on watching this one?

I'm sure you've all seen the help_haiti auction from others who are participating. I've signed up as well: I have volunteered to write an SGA story (1,000 to 10,000 words) for the highest bidder.

This is a great cause. My sign-up entry is here if anyone is interested. Thank you!!

Snurched this from kristen999

EDIT: Forgot one more little story written for the "Traps" challenge! Now added.

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Heeee! I spent my afternoon putting this together - my very own Sheppard calendar. I am a happily obsessed geek.

( Here's the 12-month overview )

Thought you fellow whumpers might enjoy something that happened to me a few weeks ago. I am what I like to think of as a "closeted whumper," meaning no one other than my f-list knows I am a whumper, including my family. Well, as per usual, the Christmas holidays at my parents' are generally filled with a lot of football. My brother and dad are fanatics, and I admit I enjoy watching college games quite a bit.

Now my dad has a very particular way of watching: he tapes the game first then watches it, fast-forwarding through commercials and the time-outs and the announcers yakking about everything and nothing, condensing a four-hour game into a two-hour one. The three of us (dad, bro, and me) were sitting around watching some game, when one of the players got hurt.

I, of course, perk up.

My dad starts to fast-forward, to which I yell (in a panic): "Wait!"

My dad responds: "Oh, you like the injuries, do you?"

Me: (choking and sputtering on my drink) "...Uh..."

Little did he realize (or maybe, horrifyingly, he realizes more than I like to think) how close to the truth he was - not that I want football players to get injured, but if they do get hurt, I need to hear the exact terms they use to describe it so I can later look it up and inflict it on a certain character. I think I mumbled something about just wanting to know if he was okay. My dad and brother gave me a couple of weird looks then went back to watching the game.

I'm afraid to say anything during football games now. Eeeep! Has anyone told non-whumping family or friends about their love of whumping and totally freaked them out?

Tis the season for New Year's Resolutions... Thought I'd share a couple of my fandom-related ones.

Resolution #1. I always set a writing goal, and I always way outdo it. This year, I thought I'd set it much higher to see if I rise to the occasion. The goal:

- Finish my original Big Bang idea (this will likely be a fairly long story, too)

- Three episode tags (to go along with another resolution I'll mention below). I've got vague ideas already for a couple of them...

- At least one challenge response over at Sheppard H/C (like I can stay away from any of those challenges...Ha!)

- One completely new story that I haven't already started (and my hyperactive muse has been flinging ideas at me like crazy lately!)

- Original fic: this year, I'm setting down the goal to work on one of my original fic ideas. I'm not going to make myself finish it this year, but I've got to at least venture out of my SGA comfort zone a little and give this a shot. I may or may not post anything on my original fic here, but it's part of my writing resolution.


Resolution #2. I have said for months now that I want to rewatch all the SGA episodes, and I've only gotten through disc 1 of season 1. Also, I got Seasons 1-4 of Supernatural for Christmas. Who says resolutions have to be painful?

- Rewatch all of SGA, beginning to end! (Which will hopefully spawn ideas for my episode tag challenge above)

- Rewatch all of Supernatural, seasons 1 thru 4 and the eps of Season 5 I've DVR'd!

Sounds like 2010 could be a fun-filled, SGA-filled, Supernatural-filled year for me!! Woo!

Here's the second half!

( South to the Edge of Darkness )

Title: South to the Edge of Darkness
Author: coolbreeze1
Rating: PG-13, mild profanity and some violence
Word count: 18,125
Set: Immediately after Season 5's "Enemy at the Gate"
Summary: After the close call with the Wraith attack on Earth, the team plus Carson head south to Antarctica to reinstall the Ancient chair, but much more is going on in the quiet outpost than any of them suspect.

Super awesome thank you to everybetty for her excellent beta skills. This is for radioshack84 for the Sheppard H/C Secret Santa. The prompt is at the end of the story.

( South to the Edge of Darkness, part 1 )

Thought I'd post the two comment fics I did over at sgahcchallenges here on my own LJ. These were such a blast to read and write, and if you haven't checked out all the comment fics yet, do so! There are some really good ones!

( Santa's Booming Workship )


( Let It Snow, Let It Snow )

I just wrapped up the final scene of my Secret Santa fic, coming in just under 18K. This story was a little painful to write - I really had to rip the words out of my brain for the first half of it, but the last 8K or so came together quickly. I'll wander around the house and clear my head for a few hours, then go over it again for a final edit before shooting it off to my beta. Hopefully, I can get the final product posted tomorrow or the next day. Yay!! Now I can go back to some of those other burning story ideas I've been wanting to work on.

And I'm craving mac 'n cheese like nothing else right now. Damn Yahoo and its news of the day.

I've been lax in responding to my f-list LJ posts lately. I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and Happy New Year (but I'm sure I'll post again before this year is out... *eyes Secret Santa story). Thank you to everyone who's posted pictures or stories or nice comments this year and added a little more happiness to my life (especially Shep H/C happiness, the best kind of all).

Will be my downfall.

I am home for Christmas now, and you'd think I'd have all this time to devote to writing. But no, my brother decides to get this computer game - Civilization IV. We have a bad history with this game: one year, he got Civilization III for Christmas, and we played it nonstop for four days (literally nonstop with just the occasional break for food or bathroom).

Now he shows up with Civilization IV, we both load it up on our laptops, and we figure out how to connect our computers so we can play each other (we also figured out how to connect online so we can continue to play each other throughout next semester despite living long distances from each other, which does not bode well for either of us, academically speaking). Luckily he's off to the gym for a few hours (right before I was to launch my big attack against the nearby barbarian city!), so I am trying to make a little progress on my Secret Santa story.

Oh, and I saw Christmas Carol at the theaters this past weekend, got struck with a creepy, Halloweenish SGA story within the first five minutes, and could think of nothing else but that throughout the entire movie. Add another story idea to the list...

I think I found a new show to get into:

Castle!!

I can't imagine getting into it to the same degree as SGA, but it's fun and I'm really enjoying it. I've only seen three or four episodes so far, but I've heard about this show for a long time. Why did it take me so long to finally give it a shot?

And I love Nathan Fillion. I loved him in Firefly, and he's perfect in this show. Yay!! I'm so happy! My DVR keeps catching random repeat episodes, and since I haven't seen any of them...

* runs off to watch the latest ep...

Smashed my knee up pretty good this weekend. Nothing serious - just one large, nasty-looking bruise. Once it hits all its colorful glory, I may try to take a photo of it. I foresee a knee injury in Sheppard's future!!!

In the meantime, I imagine I will be doing a lot of sitting around and hopefully a lot of writing. Got struck with a cool story idea over the weekend, but I've got to file it away for now and finish a few other fics first! Eeeee!! So many stories, so little time...