Ruby-Che [Draco's Dreamer]'s Journal

what i'm up to lately
for the non-fandom stuff, see my LJ. in fandom, well...

last fall, Katesfire came to me asking for some help with a sequel to her J/C story Rejection. Cori had asked for a sequel because Janeway was pregnant at the end and she just wanted to see those baby twins.

with my famous last words being "have it be ON Cardassia!", we ate, breathed and slept the plot and produced the dramatic adventure that came to be titled Retribution. as we were coming down off our high and enjoying the feedback of happy readers, KF wondered aloud if there might be a followup to this. the word "redemption" popped into my head. all i could think was here we go again....

Redemption is now slowly in the works. i have finished the prologue and i'm attempting to pull chapter one out of the muse, piece by piece. when she isn't chewing on her OTHER tangents.

the latest: i decided for Redemption that it was high time that Shakaar be married. i thought for the hell of it she should be human and not Bajoran and named her Cady. mentally adding that she had a xenophobic family that disowned her for being involved with Shakaar gave the muse something to run with....and in a direction i was NOT planning in the least.

i'm now writing the Shakaar/Cady backstory in addition to Redemption.

me....who used to loathe Shakaar (well okay, that was my Odo/Kira fangirl pitching a bitch). and i'm now writing a fic about him?!

hell has got to be freezing over.

i don't expect anyone to read it--i'm mostly writing it to get the muse to shut the flying fuck up about it, but if anyone else enjoys it when it's done, i'll take that as a bonus.

( a sneak peek on Redemption for the interested )

and a sneak peek into the muse's crazyness too.

background plot: Cady's family is run by her grandfather Nelson, a hateful, xenophobic type. Cady is working for two months as an aide to Melisande Dumas, who is hosting a (reason undecided) diplomatic summit somewhere in the French countryside at an ancient villa/palace with huge grounds attached. Melisande is a friend of the family that Nelson can't afford to offend, hence he has no choice but to allow his granddaughter to work for two months around aliens. one night after dinner, Melisande gets drunk and pisses Cady off. she leaves to go take a walk....

( when Cady met Edon )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Plumb, "In My Arms"