Hospitals are good for Writing

[primsong]

Hugs and thank yous to all who expressed their support - my hubby is safely home now and recuperating nicely on the recliner with his laptop and blankets, so far so good. Nice to have him home and looking much better. Now we just have to convince the cat to not knead any sore spots.

One nice bonus that came out of all that hanging around the hospital twiddling my thumbs was getting my calufrax recommendations for next week pretty much written out, which had been threatening to become something I was going to regret signing up for because I was wondering when I would have a chance to do them - now I get to look forward to next week happily instead as they are nearly ready to roll. All I have to do is hope whomever is doing this week doesn't snag any of 'mine'. Going to doublecheck that, I THEN found out one of my own stories was rec'd there this past week, the TARDIS-centric Knowing Her Place, which is enough happy-writer-review-rocket-juice to keep me floating for some time. ^_^ With little starbursts and rainbows!

Spent the evening writing a Three-n-Jo adventure thing, but I don't really know why... now it's a four-page fragment with no story to go with it, so one more thing on the back burner. But darnit, it was fun. I guess that's why! Maybe I can park it inside one of my other WIPs. Sorry I missed this fic_rush, I hope everyone had a good time.

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[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Next week?! *goes to put Calufrax back on watch*

Fic_Rush was fun... a bit quiet, but I actually finished a story for the MFU remix challenge - well, mostly finished, it seems RL has swallowed up my beta reader - and had a long conversation with Beth about characterization for that MacGyver/MFU crossover she requested a few months back.

(On a loosely related tangent: I've been meaning to ask you how the heck you come up with your alien species designs. They're all so amazingly original. Gurgifrens, star-puppies, fractal clouds... whereas I have two separate Three stories, including one you requested, stalled for lack of necessary alien creatures.

Or is that one of those questions like "How do you do crossovers anyway?" Which I don't, really; they just come to me.)

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Nope, they don't just come to me - would be nice if they would! I usually cook them up by starting with something that is a part of this world and then running it through some kind of morph/mix. The leaf-and-bark people for One came from contemplating what leaves would be like if they were sentient, the fractal cloud from a combination of the tail of a comet with the natural design of ferns, the star-puppy from mixing a pet with a christmas ornament.

The idea is to produce something that is enough "earthlike" to be recognizable and natural without it being quite of Earth. Choose a 'base design' from nature and try crossing it over with something else organic then running it over a fun-house mirror and see what you get. Then winnow out the strongest from the lot.

Who knows what will spark something though - A couple of them have come from doodles on my notebook (the little goat-child of Sweetest was one of those) or even from an icon (The tall alien that makes a cameo in Blue Moon to goggle at Ian and Barbara was from an amusing smilie I came across).

Good luck!