Otter's Rock

When you're 13k words in to an approximately 20k-word story, it's awesome to finally figure out what the story's about.  \o/  Now I just have to go back and edit the rest into shape when I'm done.  I hope that with the editing it will stay above the 20k-minimum word count for oc_bigbang; I've never done a Big Bang before, and have never had custom art done for one of my stories, and I'm really looking forward to it.  (I did trekreversebang last year for some awesome art, but the artist disappeared and the art was never finished, and the mods said I couldn't post the rough draft with the story.  Which was a shame, because it was some great art.)  Anyway, at this point it's looking like the rough draft will come out at only just slightly over 20k.  (The bb limit is 15k words plus any you had before you signed up; I'm using an existing WIP that had about 5k words when I started, which means I need a minimum of 20k words.)

I'm already thinking about the beta I'm going to need.  The story is about a Bajoran Starfleet officer, post-DS9, and the story has turned out to be about surviving the scars of the Occupation and rebuilding while dealing with the legacy of colonialism (from the Cardassians) and current unthinking privilege (from the Federation) and terrorism.  As an educated middle-class American white woman, I'm thinking I'll need beta services from someone with a bit more personal experience in post-colonial life.

Here is my current WIP list:

xover_exchange fic.  (And once it's done, I'll probably have Yuletide to start.)

Desert Between sequel, set several years later focusing on Spock's Vulcan wife.  And what she thinks of the whole situation.  (I'm still not sure this is what would happen, if this is the choice Uhura would make; but laurajv wanted to know what would happen if it did, and upon reflection I realized so did I.)

DS9 original character fic that's been on the backburner for some time but is slowly moving up my priority list.  It began out of my fascination with Vulcans, and my love of Bajor and DS9, and my realization that it was highly unrealistic that the only non-Vulcans we see marry Vulcans are Humans, and there's a whole Federation out there.  So I set out to write a Vulcan/Bajoran love story.  Which then got bogged down.  I have since realized that it is not, in fact, a love story.  It is a gen friendship story, about growing and learning and respecting culture despite differences, and about being in transition.  It's one of those where I'm not sure it will ever be finished, but I like it and so keep going back and fiddling with it.

Batman Beyond--Terry and guns.  A short meditation on guns and the way people react to them that hradzka rightly pointed out needed an actual, you know, plot to go with the philosophy.  I will get back to it some day.

Superman Movieverse/DC fic to the same plot bunny that spurred ljs_lj to write Biopsychology (and are you ever going to get around to writing that new sequel to it?)  My version is quite different, as the plot would focus on/be triggered by Kara Zor-El (Supergirl) arriving on Earth.  It's mostly about her and her issues and what she thinks of Earth and her cousin (and, eventually, his screwed-up love life, which is where the plot bunny comes in).  Since I finished my Richard-focused post-Superman Returns fic "A Family Story," I've had very little motivation to get back to this one, so it's staying on the back burner for now.  Maybe next year.  (I do intend to eventually get back to it.)

BSG AU called Jumping Time (and this may be the only time in my life I've ever been able to come up with a title before I had to post the fic).  Of all my WIPs, the least likely to get finished because while I have quite a number of scenes for it running around my head, I have no plot to tie them together with.  Basically, at the end of the series when Kara jumps the Galactica, instead of finding a new Earth they find themselves back in time about 6 months before the Cylon attack, and decide that the best way to save the Colonies is for the Rebel Cylons and the Final Five to infiltrate the Cylons and stage a coup against the Ones

I have several other plot bunnies, but those are the ones that not only have files, they have files pinned to my start bar so I can access them easily and they will stay in my head.

Title: What You Know
Author: beatrice_otter 
Written For: nenya_kanadka in the Awesome People of Colour Ficathon Comment-a-thon
Fandom: Deep Space Nine
Prompt: Kasidy Yates, finding out about Sarah Sisko and the Sarah Prophet

( it's not what you don't know that gets you in the end, it's what you know that isn't so )

Title: The Thirty-Fourth Rule
Author: beatrice_otter 
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: G
Characters: Odo, Quark
Word Count: 543
Written for: Gen Battle
Prompt: Quark and Odo - war