lalala, the world is full of disease and death

Untitled Star Trek fic is at 7,800 words. I am researching tapeworms, roundworms, hookworms, river blindness, malaria, sleeping sickness, smallpox, whooping cough, tuberculosis, and stuff. It's a weird combination of sickening and tragic, because, you know, parasites and horrible diseases; fascinating, because biology is cool; and amusing, because I know what I am doing with this research. I think I am giving myself emotional whiplash.

*flees to Memory Alpha to check ship stats instead*

[Meme] Fanfiction Love Meme (...I feel like such a sheep now -- *is easily embarrased*)

THE FANFICTION LOVE MEME


I dunno, I have never participated in one of these things before, but if you feel kind and have a minute or two to spare, could you tell me something you particularly like about my writing, so I can maybe try to do more of that and less of the annoying things? If not, don't worry -- I will continue (slowly) writing regardless. *grin*

[Fic] "Some Work of Noble Note" -- Star Trek: AOS

This is not the long, still-untitled Star Trek fic. But that one is getting ridiculous, so I decided to go back to my first false start and write nothing but the specific scene valles_uf was interested in: a small ship facing off against a pirate fleet in defense of a colony planet, with the Enterprise still a few hours out. (850 words)

( Some Work of Noble Note )

I am annoyed at the lack of coherent world-building, the way the crew remain ciphers, and the preachiness of Captain Bienkowski's speech... but whatever, it gets the basic idea across. *sigh*

Also, I should mention that this is not the same ship and crew as in the longer story, and the colony planet is also subtly different. The other version of Simplicity is rabidly xenophobic.

ETA: It occurs to me that if I changed the name of the colony planet and fleshed out the crew's background just a little, this could be posted elsewhere as a completely separate fic from the eventual other one. Hmm. *ponders* (Still not writing the very long action/adventure continuation, though!)

Dreamwidth invite code

Apropos of nothing in particular, I have one Dreamwidth invite code that I've been sitting on for a while. I was thinking I might set up a separate writing journal, but I have decided that would be too much work, so I have no need for the code.

Does anybody want it?