Alara Rogers' Writing Journal

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Written for multiverse5000, for the prompt: ST:TNG/Firefly, Wash becomes a Q. I apologize to any actual Chinese speakers for what is probably really crappy Chinese -- I was pulling it from The Firefly-Serenity Chinese Pinyinary, but I know enough about languages to know that just grabbing phrases that sound like they would fit might actually not work nearly as well as you think. Also, it's been too many years since I've watched Firefly to *really* get the speech patterns down, and I apologize for that as well.

The majority of this story is built around the plot of the Serenity movie and contains major major *major* spoilers for that movie. It hasn't really got much in the way of Star Trek spoilers at all, though having seen the Voyager and DS9 Q episodes would probably help.

( Game Over )

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Yeah, this is more of a teaser than a complete story. It's sort of the AOS (ST reboot) rewrite of my story "Dance of Chameleon and Mirror", although it takes place thirty years before that story would have. I'll expand this later but I have to finish Judgement Day 13 and two Q crossover fics I have deadlines on first. Also, I have to re-read "Countdown", though I *think* no part of my explanation for the "supernova" contradicts it.

The backstory for this sorta kinda almost treats "Spock Vs. Q" and its sequel as canon. Kind of. Knowing TNG would also be real helpful, although this is AOS timeline.

This is slightly rewritten from the version in qcontinuum's journal that I linked to from alara_r.

( Quid Pro Quo )

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And this gets me to the 13K I'd intended to get done for the finishathon. Nowhere near done, though.
( More of Churchill's Black Dog )

Normally I don't post incomplete Judgement Day fics. But this one was done for the Finish-A-Thon, which means it's due today. I originally thought this fic would come in at 13K... ha! I'm at 9.5K and Picard hasn't even gotten to Paris yet.

I cannot promise to finish this this week. I *can* promise to get my originally planned 13K in, and I can promise that aside from ficathon stories I've already committed to, this will be the only story I work on until it's done, but the damn thing wants to be much, much longer than I expected, and because of all the logistics, not to mention that I've never been to France and have to look everything up, it's going slower than other stories have.

So here is the first part of Judgement Day 13: Churchill's Black Dog. (The significance of the title won't become apparent until parts I haven't written yet.)

( Judgement Day 13: Churchill's Black Dog )

Written for the lgbtfest. I was supposed to post on May 4th along with the Q Jr one, but that one ended up twice as long as expected, so you're getting this one during amnesty days. Thanks go to lt_kitty and wemblee for last minute beta-ing.

( A Kiss Before The War )

Mentioned this on alara_r, as well.

I jumped ahead to write a scene (it'll have dialogue marks and non-speech parts when it actually appears in the story, but right now it's a first person monologue) because it fit a prompt for realmof_themuse. This will be close to the end of Working In Groups.

Praying to the Continuum

I finished my second story for the lgbtfest. I have to post it on Friday because I'm going away for the weekend and Friday's the only amnesty day I'm likely to have internet. It's Picard/Q AND I DO NOT KNOW IF IT WORKS. It feels like maybe I'm doing the fic equivalent of that Far Side cartoon where there's this complicated equation on one side and a complicated equation on the other side and in the middle it says "And then a miracle happens!" I need a beta reader, preferably someone familiar with Picard/Q dynamics.

Crossposting to my regular LJ. HELP!

And here's the second half. Notes in the first half, which is here.

( First Born Son, pt. 2 )

Written for the lgbtfest, for the prompt: "Star Trek (any era), Q, Identifying as male makes Q transgender in the Q Continuum, since most Q don't identify with a gender at all." I'm pretty sure I'm cheating because I think the prompt was intended to be about the JdL-Q, but I feel very strongly that that particular character *doesn't* identify with gender. However, I actually came up with the idea that his son *does* some years ago; I just never had opportunity to explore it seriously.

The following story contains a brief mention of a slash pairing and lots of general genderbending wtfery. Oh, and the reference to the Hamalki comes from Diane Duane's Star Trek novel "The Wounded Sky". They're the giant glass spiders.

( First Born Son, pt. 1 )

(Crossposted from alara_r; sorry, folks who have both journals friended...)

I am doing the finishathon again this year. This is a ficathon where the participants, and if desired by the authors, other individuals, vote on which of the participants' unfinished stories or plot bunnies to write.

I am currently working on "Working In Groups" and hope to have it finished by the time the finishathon voting is done, so it's not in my list. The voting poll is here:

Alara's Finish-A-Thon Poll

They're all Star Trek this year, since that's what's currently eating my brain.

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I'm not sure how I'm going to break this out when it's all done, so I'm not sure if this is actually a Chapter 2 or what, but anyway, here's more.

Working in Groups, the next big chunk

I was supposed to be working on "Working In Groups", or my original fiction, or Judgement Day. So I finished this instead. It's been sitting on my hard drive, incomplete, for years.

The crack is strong with this one. I think my Exposition Dump makes it pretty clear what the setup is, but if it still seems completely confusing, you can think of it as a sequel to Seventeen Things, Thing 15, as this takes place later on in the same AU. I actually had this one first, but the format of this didn't work for Seventeen Things, where all the stories had to be Q-POV.

( A Doctor, A Q and a Baby )

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