Star Crossed Fanfic

Lex · Post by **Lex** » 2004-08-21 05:15pm

Captain_Cyran wrote:Stravo, if Tarsi doesn't make it out of this story alive I will find where you live...

I tried that already after Boba Fett died to that worm. Couldn't find him unfotunately.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-08-21 06:49pm

So has the Curse of Kirk hit Leia ? Or is this another <Wedge Antille's sister>* miraculous survival moment?

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2004-08-21 09:11pm

So what's happened recently to Ochoa and those secondary characters?

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2004-08-21 09:38pm

Jadeite wrote:So what's happened recently to Ochoa and those secondary characters?

Which secondary characters? Stravo's got like... 100 of them running around doing different things.

Jadeite · Post by **Jadeite** » 2004-08-21 10:12pm

I know there's a lot, but there was that whole thing with Ochoa and Nemesis, I'm rereading through the entire story to refresh my mind about what other stuff there was.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2004-08-21 10:26pm

I find the numerous subplots to be like life. Things don't just follow the main plot if you get my drift. Don't worry all those subplots will be tied up in the end.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2004-08-21 11:19pm

Stravo wrote:I find the numerous subplots to be like life. Things don't just follow the main plot if you get my drift. Don't worry all those subplots will be tied up in the end.

If this story ever ends. I'm going to skim through the entire thing just to see if you managed to miss anything...

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2004-08-21 11:57pm

Captain_Cyran wrote:If this story ever ends. I'm going to skim through the entire thing just to see if you managed to miss anything...

Yeah, for real. Did we touch on Boba Fett yet? Or was that 30-40 chapters ago? When the Emperor killed everyone? Wait--Borg...Q? Gary? POKEMON! AHHHHH!

I'm just pulling your leg Stravo. Keep on tranglin' my main man.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-08-24 08:28am

Great surprise Stravo. And a great chapter too.

Have you decided to reduce the number of the main characters? (Rhetorical question

)
Anyway this story looks far from end to me. There seems to be so much to happen.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-08-24 03:16pm

Stravo, you probably do each chapter as a separate document, so I'll just tell you anyway. At 9 point Verdana font, StarCrossed is 909 pages in Word.

Looking into a publisher? (If it wasn't for the fact that LucasFilm would never approve it, I'd be asking that in all seriousness.)

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-08-24 04:30pm

Rogue 9 wrote:Stravo, you probably do each chapter as a separate document, so I'll just tell you anyway. At 9 point Verdana font, StarCrossed is 909 pages in Word. Looking into a publisher? (If it wasn't for the fact that LucasFilm would never approve it, I'd be asking that in all seriousness.)

Wow its gotten that long?

Its been awhile

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-08-24 05:49pm

Mr Bean wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:Stravo, you probably do each chapter as a separate document, so I'll just tell you anyway. At 9 point Verdana font, StarCrossed is 909 pages in Word. Looking into a publisher? (If it wasn't for the fact that LucasFilm would never approve it, I'd be asking that in all seriousness.)

Wow its gotten that long?

Its been awhile

Yeah. It's that long. If published, by the time Stravo's done I'd venture to guess that he'd have to break it up into a trilogy. (Sadly, screwing with the movie canon timeline like that would never fly with Lucasfilm. They might allow it to be published as N-level canon, maybe.)

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-08-25 08:56am

Not to mention the fact that it would have to deal with Paramount regarding StarTrek franchise too.

[pride speech]
Guys, look how lucky we are. Here we are the ones able to read this magnificent fanfic. Well done, Stravo. We are proud of you!
[/proud speec]

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-08-25 09:32pm

Rogue 9 wrote:
Mr Bean wrote:
Rogue 9 wrote:Stravo, you probably do each chapter as a separate document, so I'll just tell you anyway. At 9 point Verdana font, StarCrossed is 909 pages in Word. Looking into a publisher? (If it wasn't for the fact that LucasFilm would never approve it, I'd be asking that in all seriousness.)

Wow its gotten that long?

Its been awhile
Yeah. It's that long. If published, by the time Stravo's done I'd venture to guess that he'd have to break it up into a trilogy. (Sadly, screwing with the movie canon timeline like that would never fly with Lucasfilm. They might allow it to be published as N-level canon, maybe.)

Hmmmm. Just copied it again onto this PC, and now it's only 838 pages long. But enough grammar errors to overload the grammar checker so that it couldn't display all of them at once.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-08-25 09:34pm

Comosicus wrote:Not to mention the fact that it would have to deal with Paramount regarding StarTrek franchise too.

[pride speech]
Guys, look how lucky we are. Here we are the ones able to read this magnificent fanfic. Well done, Stravo. We are proud of you!
[/proud speec]

Well, that wouldn't be so much of an insurmountable problem, since they don't consider novels canon anyway, and this takes place after all the Star Trek movies and such so far except Nemesis. It's Lucas who wouldn't want his movie timeline screwed with.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-08-26 07:03am

Maybe the story can be presented as an alternate timeline. It would not become canon, but maybe it could get GL approval.

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2004-08-26 11:24am

Comosicus wrote:Maybe the story can be presented as an alternate timeline. It would not become canon, but maybe it could get GL approval.

No. LucasFilm will never, ever, ever accept and publish fan fiction.

EDIT: And I very much doubt Paramount would either.

Comosicus · Post by **Comosicus** » 2004-08-26 11:46am

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
Comosicus wrote:Maybe the story can be presented as an alternate timeline. It would not become canon, but maybe it could get GL approval.
No. LucasFilm will never, ever, ever accept and publish fan fiction.

EDIT: And I very much doubt Paramount would either.

Too bad then for the others. We will be the only ones to enjoy this masterpiece.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-08-26 01:54pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:
Comosicus wrote:Maybe the story can be presented as an alternate timeline. It would not become canon, but maybe it could get GL approval.
No. LucasFilm will never, ever, ever accept and publish fan fiction.

EDIT: And I very much doubt Paramount would either.

How do they differentiate between fan fiction and KJA? I mean, this is better than his shit... What does one have to do to get them to allow you to publish SW books?

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2004-08-26 01:57pm

Rogue 9 wrote:How do they differentiate between fan fiction and KJA? I mean, this is better than his shit... What does one have to do to get them to allow you to publish SW books?

I've read this in SWI. You have to be an already established author of science fiction. Even if said author knows nothing about Star Wars and couldn't get the characters right if his life depended on it, he has more of a chance than a fan fiction writer, who has no chance at all according to LucasFilm policy.

Chris OFarrell · Post by **Chris OFarrell** » 2004-09-04 11:19am

Actualy for the record I do recall several ST books of published fanfics. Genearly short stories, but there is precedent. Of course I don't know about the politics of getting published.

Mutant Headcrab · Post by **Mutant Headcrab** » 2004-09-04 06:58pm

Chris OFarrell wrote:Actualy for the record I do recall several ST books of published fanfics. Genearly short stories, but there is precedent. Of course I don't know about the politics of getting published.

Gah! You bugger! Don't post unless Stravo has another chapter up! Some of us got our hopes up!

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2004-09-05 06:21am

Mutant Headcrab wrote:
Chris OFarrell wrote:Actualy for the record I do recall several ST books of published fanfics. Genearly short stories, but there is precedent. Of course I don't know about the politics of getting published.
Gah! You bugger! Don't post unless Stravo has another chapter up! Some of us got our hopes up!

SOme of us just check the cleaned version.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-11 09:18pm

Crazedwraith wrote:
Mutant Headcrab wrote:
Chris OFarrell wrote:Actualy for the record I do recall several ST books of published fanfics. Genearly short stories, but there is precedent. Of course I don't know about the politics of getting published.
Gah! You bugger! Don't post unless Stravo has another chapter up! Some of us got our hopes up!
SOme of us just check the cleaned version.

Indeed.

And now I've gotten his hopes up again.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2004-09-11 09:19pm

Rogue 9 wrote:
Crazedwraith wrote:
Mutant Headcrab wrote: Gah! You bugger! Don't post unless Stravo has another chapter up! Some of us got our hopes up!
SOme of us just check the cleaned version.
Indeed.

And now I've gotten his hopes up again.

Alright cut that shit out.

FUCK, now I've gotten people's hopes up. Jeez.