Jan. 15th, 2010

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I just wrote, like, 400 words of "The Guardian in Spite of Herself" ch. 13. I don't think I had written a single word of that fic for almost two years.

Man, that felt weird. But good, you know? I really do like that fic. I would like to get back to it.

(But anything past, say, chapter 14 will need to wait until I catch up on canon since, um, about manga chapter 350, shut up, I know I am a bad fan. Because apparently we know stuff about Hidden Cloud now, and Akatsuki, and the Uchiha clan, and Konoha's internal politics, and I would like to at least know what I may end up deliberately contradicting.)

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So far, my 'write something every day' resolution is working better than last year's 'focus on one story at a time' resolution, at least in terms of raw word count. I think this is probably because I have creative ADHD or something. I really can keep a dozen WIPs in my head more or less concurrently, and it is very useful to have those other stories available to jump to when I am unenthused or blocked by whatever I was previously working on.
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Question: during Star Trek: TOS, are female Starfleet officers addressed as sir or as ma'am?

I ask because while I am deliberately ignoring and/or overwriting most of the casual sexism of the original series -- it is skeevy and unpalatable and I refuse to think that even the Eugenics Wars would set progress back that far -- I would like to be semi-period-accurate on small details, if possible.

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It's probably an irrelevant question anyway, since the Amber Lotus is not affiliated with Starfleet, but the ship does maintain at least a sketchy hierarchy, and when Captain CastaƱo is giving direct orders, it seems to me that Kath might respond more formally than she is otherwise accustomed to doing.

(Untitled Star Trek: AOS story is now at 8,675 words in rough draft. They have found a potential cure and treatment has commenced! Now I just have to bring on the PIRATES. *evil laughter*)

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