The Devil You Know, Chapter 9

Title: The Devil You Know

Series: G1 universe, focusing on Original characters

Rating: R

Summary: In the early days of the civil war on Cybertron, Sentinel Prime authorized several refugee vessels to take Neutrals away from the planet in hopes that they could start peaceful colonies where they would be safe. Many of these refugees were never heard from again; lost to us through time and distance. But history does record the fate of one of the vessels. The Stormchaser was three orns away from its destination when it was shot down by Decepticons in an act of cowardice and deceit. There were no survivors. That is what history tells us. But in this case, history is wrong.

Author's Note: Day 14 and the end of Week Two. According to Chris Batty, the creator of NaNoWriMo, Week two is the hard one. The honeymoon is over and the full magnitude of the idiocy that you have taken on hits. My problem was that the words weren't flowing as well as they could have. I have the whole story planned out, but I found that the characters were doing things out of turn and Ms. Inner Editor was trying to break out of her closet with her red pen. Now I think I have finally come to terms with the notion that the outline is just a suggestion, and not a contract. The next seven days should be easier. Admitedly, I don't have a four day weekend coming up, but I think I'll be able to manage ;p

23419 / 50000 words. 47% done!

Chapter 9

( Cut to save friends pages and those who aren't interested in reading this oh so very rough draft )

New wordcount meter

Well, because I can ...



I'm right on pace, thanks to my handy dandy laptop and eating out of the office today. I'm exactly where I should be, I've beat my word count from last year, and I still have the bus ride home and two hours of scheduled writing for tonight. But since I've reached my required word count for the day, I can actually get to bed on time, without worrying about getting behind. But that doesn't mean that I can rest on my laurels ... I've only just completed Chapter 10 and I have 30 chapters planned out. And while the numbers aim is to reach 50,000, the actual goal is to write a novel in a month. So, 20 cahpters left to write in 15 days. I want to have my last two words be "The" and "End" and if needed, I'll pull a Deus Ex Machina to make it work (and fix it int he edit, of course).



You know, I'm starting to feel a bit OCD over these numbers ...

The Devil You Know, Chapter 10

Title: The Devil You Know

Series: G1 universe, focusing on Original characters

Rating: R

Summary: In the early days of the civil war on Cybertron, Sentinel Prime authorized several refugee vessels to take Neutrals away from the planet in hopes that they could start peaceful colonies where they would be safe. Many of these refugees were never heard from again; lost to us through time and distance. But history does record the fate of one of the vessels. The Stormchaser was three orns away from its destination when it was shot down by Decepticons in an act of cowardice and deceit. There were no survivors. That is what history tells us. But in this case, history is wrong.

Author's Note: Day 15 and I'm halfway through. Not only that, I have now beaten my wordcount from last year. It all makes me happy.

I thought that I would take the opportunity at this time to explain why I decided to write a fanfiction with no canon characters in it. Well, the truth is, I've always been facinated with the idea of Cybertronian colonists and refugees. I mean, we know they existed, but they're never really covered in canon, save for a few footnote entries (and of course, Padragon -- did I spell that right?) I've wanted to tell this story for a while, but I knew that I couldn't tell it the way I wanted to if I did it through canon characters. The only way that would have worked is with the characters discovering the colonies after the fact, and I didn't want to do that. So OCs it had to be. So the question ends up being, is it still fanfiction if it doesn't contain anything really canon and only borrows from the universe? I don't know.

25227 / 50000 words. 50% done!

Chapter 10

( Cut to save friends pages and those who aren't interested in reading this oh so very rough draft )