[intro] Er, g'day

[lexicalcrow]

Hai, I be Sasha. Saw amethystfirefly  pimping it and decided to rock up. Might help me get things done for once.

Fannish:
Writing journal: (if you have one):
3evilmuses (90% fanfic/10% original) (DW);wolfanfics (fanfic) and sashas_nano (dumping place for NaNoWriMo stuff and random bits of original fiction) (LJ)
AO3 Archive: Sashataakheru (which only has selected works there)
Main fandoms: I am often a fandom of one. I am engaged in a journey to find/discover/found the most obscure RPS fandoms in existence and write fic for them. Basic groups are Australian comedy, Australian politics, and obscure bandslash.
Favourite characters/pairings: Ohh, um. Well, it changes, depending on what I'm writing. I've never really had favourites.
Favourite writing tool: Currently falling in love with little WordPad-like program called Jarte. It is everything I wished WordPad would be. Okay, I only got it for the wordcount thing, but still. XD OH. yWriter 5. I luffs that program. <3
Working on: I've got fic for au_bigbang to finish editing - I'm also doing my own soundtrack and leet grafix. I've signed up for two prompts for lgbtfest (I'm a fulltime uni student, why do I do this to myself? D:) and I'm writing various pieces for musing_way (for three muses, no less), amongst other things ranging from one-shots to novels. Etcetera.

Original:
Writing journal: (if you have one): ...See above. Well. See 3evilmuses . That's got the most original fic.
Genres: Dystopia, sci-fi, queer fiction, steampunk
Types: (e.g. novel, play, microfictions): Novels and novellas, mostly. Not that I've finished any of them yet. >_>
Favourite writing tool: See above. XD
Working on: political queer dystopia titled Wild West Heroes/Rainbow Nation*, a vague sci-fi trilogy thing involving space pixies, and other various things I'm too tired to remember at the moment. Possibly a sign I should go to bed. XD

* This is what happens when you end up having two seemingly separate stories tell me they are actually part of the same universe. I have title issues, amongst other things. D:

ETA to add tags as my keyboard is made of fail tonight and posted before I was ready. DX I think they're the right ones. Add/fix as necessary. And now it hates my LJ links. Fine. *fixes*

Comments

[lexicalcrow]

Mine's set in Australia. One story was set in the West (vaguely ordered chaos and neglect with cowboys), the other in the East (shiny modern democracy that has a rotten core). I'm still not entirely sure about how to blend the stories together, though I'm looking at, say, one chapter from one, another from the second, and so on, if only because it would make things easier when they come together.

And Wild West Heroes started out as fanfic, but the characters kinda morphed and became something else so it didn't take much work to make the whole thing original. I just wanted to write a sci-fi western and this is what I end up with. XD

[amethystfirefly]

That sounds so interesting. And I think that switching chapters until they're brought together would be neat.

Maybe the Eastern country tries to colonize the West and that's what brings them together?

Possibly tl:dr

[lexicalcrow]

They're part of the same country. What happened was that 40 years or so ago, the Government 'claimed' there was a plague in three of the states (West. Aust, South Aust and the Northern Territory) and forcibly quarantined them from the rest of the country for a period of 50 years. It was, however, an extravagant measure to hide the fact the Government were really handing the land to the Chinese - mining, land, etc.

But of course the quarantined region gets neglected and run down and there's not much society or government to keep things going. It takes about 35 years before anything begins to settle, and the Chinese begin to exert their influence over the region. In a stroke of irony, the Chinese end up being more of an ally than the rest of the country because they brought money and law enforcement - of a kind. So things could get built up again. But it's still a place of cowboys, rustlers, mercenaries, and organised crime. Very basic technology. Anything advanced has been smuggled in as a lot of the infrastructure was damaged near the start of the quarantine due to looting and powerful groups emerging to fight for dominance.

The East has gotten to the point where one political party effectively rules all the other parties bar one, the Pride Party. They started off championing LGBT rights, but they've changed their manifesto to fight for human rights, no matter sexuality, gender, religion, etc. This is especially important to their leader, Rogue, a Senator, who is concerned about what the real plans are for the quarantined area ad the people living in it. Everyone of voting age is also required to join a political party. They don't care (much) which one, just so long as you're a member. They see it as a more effective way of ensuring political participation and strengthening democracy by having a flourishing civil society. At least, that's what they'll tell you.

So Rogue goes off looking to expose the Government and kick out the Chinese and let the West Coast countries secede and form their own country. Even in a shiny democracy, such as it is, this is not looked upon with favour by the Government and they do their best to stop him. And he ends up having to go into the west and meets up - eventually - with my MCs from the west. So that's where the two stories meet. And... I haven't thought of the ending yet. Go me. XD

Re: Possibly tl:dr

[amethystfirefly]

It really sounds good so far, though!

Re: Possibly tl:dr

[lexicalcrow]

Yeah, it'll be awesome when it finally gets done, but yes. It's currently sitting at around 60k all up. I might, at some stage, have to go through and more strictly designate who the main characters and supporting characters are. It's getting to be a big cast and it would be nice to limit the number of MCs as much as possible.