Annals of the Librarian Attack Force
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cdybedahlAn anonymous commenter who I strongly suspect to be Jonas Ahrentorp (there can't be that many people reading this from Tietoenator) asks about Annals of the Librarian Attack Force.
It really started with Is This the Complaints Department?, even though that's not a part of the series. It was the result of me suddenly thinking that Jenna on B7, Ivanova on B5 and Gabrielle on Xena all had reasons to complain about how their lives were written. So I wrote about them doing that (and having sex, of course). By the end of the story, it occured to me that both Jenna and Ivanova left their series' before they ended. So what if they went and did something together? Enter the Librarian Attack Force.
I think the seed to the LAF was Rachel Weisz' character in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, followed by vague plans to make a roleplaying scenario for a convention out of it. The RPG thing never went anywhere, but the idea kept festering until there was a thread on Freedom City about crossovers. That's when it occured to me that I were I left Jenna and Ivanova at the end of Complaints was a perfect place mix up almost any character I could think of. I chose to limit myself to characters that weren't regularly visible in any series at the time of writing. That is, characters that already had steady jobs wouldn't be working for the LAF. Absolutely anyone else was fair game. It was also one of those cases where a couple of characters insisted on getting written about a lot more than I'd planned. I never really intended to write more than the first two parts, but Gabrielle and Faith insisted that I don't leave them hanging like that. So part three got written (and I think it's the best bit in the series). Then we went on vacation. Honeymoon, even. Two weeks on a cruise ship with no Internet resulted in parts three-and-a-half and four. Part five followed out of sheer inertia, and then I ran out of steam. And, looking at the logs, that was also when the stress at work started getting really bad.
I have about 2500 words of part six written, and I have the plot laid out. If anyone would be interested in seeing the story reach an end, just drop me a note. I'm an attention whore when it comes to my writing; it takes very little encouragement to get me going.
It really started with Is This the Complaints Department?, even though that's not a part of the series. It was the result of me suddenly thinking that Jenna on B7, Ivanova on B5 and Gabrielle on Xena all had reasons to complain about how their lives were written. So I wrote about them doing that (and having sex, of course). By the end of the story, it occured to me that both Jenna and Ivanova left their series' before they ended. So what if they went and did something together? Enter the Librarian Attack Force.
I think the seed to the LAF was Rachel Weisz' character in The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, followed by vague plans to make a roleplaying scenario for a convention out of it. The RPG thing never went anywhere, but the idea kept festering until there was a thread on Freedom City about crossovers. That's when it occured to me that I were I left Jenna and Ivanova at the end of Complaints was a perfect place mix up almost any character I could think of. I chose to limit myself to characters that weren't regularly visible in any series at the time of writing. That is, characters that already had steady jobs wouldn't be working for the LAF. Absolutely anyone else was fair game. It was also one of those cases where a couple of characters insisted on getting written about a lot more than I'd planned. I never really intended to write more than the first two parts, but Gabrielle and Faith insisted that I don't leave them hanging like that. So part three got written (and I think it's the best bit in the series). Then we went on vacation. Honeymoon, even. Two weeks on a cruise ship with no Internet resulted in parts three-and-a-half and four. Part five followed out of sheer inertia, and then I ran out of steam. And, looking at the logs, that was also when the stress at work started getting really bad.
I have about 2500 words of part six written, and I have the plot laid out. If anyone would be interested in seeing the story reach an end, just drop me a note. I'm an attention whore when it comes to my writing; it takes very little encouragement to get me going.
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Date: 2004-01-21 12:41 pm (UTC)I'm terrible at doing feedback; I should have done it long ago.
Glad to hear that the stress levels have receded enough to allow this.
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Date: 2004-01-21 02:22 pm (UTC)Gina