*sticks hand up from the blue dumpsterfire* hello!

[desertskald]

My tumblr url: desertskald

Other sites: AO3 and AO3²

My fandoms: Elder Scrolls (Skyrim and ESO). I discuss but don't write content for these: Star Trek, Babylon 5, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Transformers, Dragon Age, A:TLA, The Dragon Prince.

What kind of content I post: I intend to use this journal as a story journal of sorts, to keep track of changes and meta about my own stories (to keep in touch with my writer friends)

Access/commenting policies: comments and access is open to everyone.

Anything else?: I'm probably going to be pretty quiet on here and mostly keep to myself lol. I do love discussions though and meeting other fanfic authors.

Comments

[kyanve_te_shirhan]

someone else remembers Babylon 5

[desertskald]

I do! I'd say B5 (along with Dune, dang I forgot to list that lol) was probably one of the biggest influencers on my writing. I actually follow some of MJS's plotting strategies because they're nifty. Had to modify them a bit since I'm writing fiction, not a TV series (lol) but they're still useful!

The one I use the most is having 'eject points' for each piece of fiction (or major plot) where I can end the fic (or the series) and resolve all/most of the plot points. Maybe not the way I wanted to, but at least if I have to bail and deal with RL I'm not leaving readers hanging. (MJS's was having eject points for each character [like Sinclair and Talia] but I don't.... really need that much detail, lol)

There's a reason it was a successful, scalable original Sci-Fi series. :)

[kyanve_te_shirhan]

It was pretty much a formative thing for me, too - there was a time I used to be able to find plot points by episode number.

I think MJS really did end up impressing on me hard how much value there was in reading up on and studying history and social sciences to do sci-fi well, just from going through some of the comments on reference points and things that were influences or involved.