Writing Oh, for the Rainbow! I've been a fan of the musical Wicked for a good long time -- I've seen the show three times and listened the soundtrack countless more. I must confess, however, that while the novel it's based on is on the very lon list of novels I've started, it's also on
Writing Being Evil Has a Place It's International Fanworks Day again! Last year, I used it as a kick in the behind to get me into finally posting some of the fanfic I'd been working on, since one of them conveniently matched AO3’s challenge prompt. This year I decided to write something specifically for the
Writing Fallin’ to Pieces This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. When I started writing Piece by Piece, it was supposed to be a shortish Max/Dana story with Kate as a strong supporting character. Somewhere along the line, Victoria decided she wanted to barge into the story, and I realised that it
Writing Broken Bond This post contains spoilers for the Chronicles of Alsea. The Chronicles of Alsea rapidly became one of my favourite book series after first coming across them over the Christmas holiday last year. Unfortunately, what with lesbian science fiction being a somewhat niche market, my usual shiny-new-canon search for fanfic turned
Writing Piece by Piece This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. This will be the penultimate story in my Echo Park anthology, and I wanted to try my hand at a new ship, so I decided to go for a Max/Dana pairing set after the Sacrifice Chloe ending. Somewhere along the line,
Writing Oranges and Lemons This post contains spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season Eight. So, I was re-reading the Buffy season eight comics, and I was reminded of certain… annoyances. In particular, the whole Buffy/Satsu thing almost feels like it’s there purely to set up the gag where pretty much every
Writing Oxygen This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I've posted the antepenultimate story in my Echo Park anthology, and this time it’s about Maximum Victory. Rather than trying to find a way to get those two characters together post-game (or even during it), I decided to go for a
Writing Heads I've just posted another story from my Echo Park anthology, which is an entirely unnecessary crossover with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Rather than chasing down Skye, Phil Coulson's S.H.I.E.L.D. team are investigating a temporal anomaly in coastal Oregon. Can they help Max & Chloe wrap
Writing Satellite News This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I’ve posted another story in my Echo Park anthology. Having played with stories following each of the endings to the game, some where I magically hand-wave away the storm altogether, and one where I combined the worst of both, It's time
Fanfic Flash Gordon This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I've posted the first chapter of a new story in my Portland Ninja series, itself a spinoff of my Echo Park anthology. It continues the story I began in Buck Rogers, but with more of a focus on Max’s super-heroic exploits.
Fanfic Tell All Your Friends This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I’ve posted another story in my Echo Park anthology. This is another Kate/Victoria fic, but unlike Bug it takes place immediately following on from the game. It’s set in another branch of the multiverse where Max doesn't have her
Fanfic We Can’t Rewind This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I’ve posted another story in my Echo Park anthology. This one has the title which basically inspired the series in the first place. The lyrics suggested a post-Save the Bae fic, and a setting borrowed from the album title. You can
Fanfic Seven Days in the Sun This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I've posted another fanfic in my “Echo Park” anthology. The idea for Max & Chloe taking a trip to Disney World came naturally from the song title, but I no longer remember how I ended up with Chloe & Rachel as Rock
Fanfic 21st Century Meltdown This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I've posted another fanfic in my “Echo Park” anthology. The genesis of this story was the idea of Kate wanting to get a semicolon tattoo as an indelible reminder of everything she went though. A little out of character? Perhaps, but this
Fanfic Buck Rogers This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. Buck Rogers was the breakout single for Feeder, so I didn’t want it to end up being nothing but a title for one of my Life is Strange stories inspired by Echo Park. I’d recently read a fic with Max
Fanfic Standing on the Edge I wrote in my post about the Echo Park anthology about how I started writing fanfic for Life is Strange almost immediately after completing my first play-through. This story is the most direct descendant of those initial scribblings, having started out as my idea of how the other ending might
Fanfic Bug This piece of fanfic is definitely an entry in my Echo Park anthology where the song and the story have pretty much nothing to do with each other. To be fair, lyrically it didn’t give me much to work with, so it seemed a good opportunity to plug in
Fanfic Turn This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. So, today’s fanfic is another case of the title song providing inspiration for the story; actually, it's one of the songs that inspired the entire Echo Park anthology. The lyric in question is “I wish that I could turn the clocks
Fanfic Just a Day This post contains spoilers for Life is Strange. I’ve been writing an anthology of Life is Strange fanfics based on an album (Echo Park by Feeder) but I've been studiously avoiding writing any actual songfic. The story I posted today is about as close as I’m going to
Fanfic XXIV This fanfic was originally begun back in the summer of 2002, when there’d only been one season of 24, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was the most recent book in that series. I had the idea to write, if not a crossover, than a story in
Fanfic Choke Unlike the first story in my Echo Park anthology, the second one does actually take at least some inspiration from the song it’s named for. The lyrics talk about a girl with expensive tastes, so clearly Victoria as the lead (although I somehow doubt she ever worked at Sainsbury’
Fanfic Realisations The reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise was probably my favourite game from 2015, not least because it appealed to my inner femslasher. So much so, that it inspired my to do my first bit of writing since the glory days of the Harry Potter fandom. The core idea was
Fanfic Purple So, it turns out that today is International Fanworks day 2017; somehow I missed the memo. I read an awful lot of fanfic, but when it comes to writing it I’m more of a dabbler – at least until lately. Since I played Life is Strange last year, I’ve