I need to learn to stop sacrificing sleep ...

[jedibuttercup]

It just tends to be the first thing to go when Main Job + Part Time Work + Family + { WRITING PROJECT } stack up beyond what the regular hours in the day will hold. I really should have started earlier on my extreme_bigbang ... *yawn*

37052 / 100000 words. 37% done!

It has to be to 60% by April 11. I think I can? *cracking knuckles* So far, for this story, I have:

1. Rewatched fifty hours plus of Falling Skies canon;
2. Quoted Pride and Prejudice, General Patton, Watership Down, and Albert Einstein;
3. Took a swipe at conjugating Latin, then backed away slowly (ugh, the tenses);
4. Reread the Mayan creation myths again;
5. Google-Mapped a bunch of backroad routes all over South Carolina;
6. Researched school colors for a particular town along those routes;
7. Asked my mom what her farmer-grandparents in the South would've had in their pantry;
8. Saved the life of one person so far that Spielberg killed off (many more to come!);
9. Gleefully used the term "BFG" in a weapon-related context; and
10. Included more sex and cursing than in all my stories last year together (which, granted, isn't saying much).

*wipes brow* When it's finished, if I get it finished, it'll be the longest single fic I've ever written in one go (though LM is longer as a series, and BAH will probably surpass it, when complete). Heck, the only story I've previously published all at once that was longer than what I've written for this just so far was its prequel; the next one down was that 30,000 word Eureka time loop big bang, I think. I'm sort of torn whether to be proud of that, since once again I'm burying myself in a rarepair story in a rare fandom that's not likely to attract much attention, and has already garnered me several RL comments of "but why put that much effort into it? why not a real novel?"

.... *sigh* Because! *shaking head with a smile*

Comments

[sulien.livejournal.com]

Going and looking at "Waiting For the Dawn", I think I actually may not have read it after all. I recall that I started watching Falling Skies in order to read it, but got bogged down before the end of the first season, which is probably why I never managed. Is it essential to watch beyond the first season, or can a person get by with just that?

[jedibuttercup]

It's plot-heavy, but ultimately a story about Tom and Pope getting to know each other better and thereby making their world a better place to be. So I think as long as you know those characters, and maybe read the wiki overview articles for seasons 2 and 3 to get a feel for the start point for the fic?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Skies_(season_2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_Skies_(season_3)

The story is a canon divergence, so it begins in the middle of season 3 (literally in the middle of episode 3.5 "Search and Recovery"), and veers gradually further away from canon from there. I made sure to mention background facts about each of the characters, and detailed all scenes the main characters participate in (except for a bit in episode 3.6 that I sort of summarized hastily because it wasn't vital to anything else and stressed me out), so I think as long as you don't mind that you won't recognize exactly which shifts I'm making, the story should still be perfectly enjoyable.

The sequel is going to remix a lot of parts of seasons 4 and 5, but because it starts after WftD, it will no longer closely parallel the canon events. I refused to go there, full stop. :)

Thank you!

[sulien.livejournal.com]

*huge sigh of relief* Oh, thank you! Yeah, I was only so-so about the series and it just didn't have enough of Colin Cunningham in it to make me want to subject myself to it. I have read the synopses of the later seasons and the end of the series, so I kind of figured (and very sincerely hoped) that you might not follow canon in this upcoming story (I was actually going to email you to see if that was the case). Whew!

Okay, bookmarking "Waiting for the Dawn" in my desktop reading folder and on my phone. I'll probably start on it as soon as you start posting the sequel and treat it like a novel to read over time. Hopefully. Yeah, I have always tended to gorge on reading, even now that it does bad things to me physically to do so these days. :-p I think it may be time for a new pair of glasses, too.