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wyntir_knightI managed to scrape by the finish line in NaNo this year with lots and lost of crap, lots of dialogue lifted directly from Fallout 4 and metric ton of bullet form notes. This is possibly the worst NaNo I have ever been a part of mainly because I have been sick as a dog all month long with this cold that is hovering just this side of bronchitis and has decided that my chest is its new home. But I managed and now I can move on to something a little less strenuous.
I am thinking of trying my hand at this little 12 Days of Christmas prompt list that was floating around Tumblr to see if the Transformers muses are still alive in there and I'm going to continue trying to make this Fallout 4 walkthrough fic work out. I think that my main problem was that I wanted to keep both protagonists alive since there is a lot for one person to do and really, fridging the mate is a very bad trope. But I just didn't have a voice for the male protagonist and I wanted to explore the potential relationships in the game. A little hard when your spouse is still alive. I have seen it done well in two cases - one where the survivors were both poly and the other where they were each others' beards back before the war. I couldn't make either work so I finally decided to screw the opening and have the protagonists be siblings. He is an Army combat engineer recovering from PTSD and drug addiction, and she is a recently widowed new mother. Both are military, and I think there will be a third sibling who survived the war as a ghoul. I have the idea, now I just need to get it to work, and I think that with the lack of pressure of NaNo I might be able to think of something other than word count and deadlines.
I am thinking of trying my hand at this little 12 Days of Christmas prompt list that was floating around Tumblr to see if the Transformers muses are still alive in there and I'm going to continue trying to make this Fallout 4 walkthrough fic work out. I think that my main problem was that I wanted to keep both protagonists alive since there is a lot for one person to do and really, fridging the mate is a very bad trope. But I just didn't have a voice for the male protagonist and I wanted to explore the potential relationships in the game. A little hard when your spouse is still alive. I have seen it done well in two cases - one where the survivors were both poly and the other where they were each others' beards back before the war. I couldn't make either work so I finally decided to screw the opening and have the protagonists be siblings. He is an Army combat engineer recovering from PTSD and drug addiction, and she is a recently widowed new mother. Both are military, and I think there will be a third sibling who survived the war as a ghoul. I have the idea, now I just need to get it to work, and I think that with the lack of pressure of NaNo I might be able to think of something other than word count and deadlines.