Various fannish delights

[altariel]

First of all, there are an amazing 135 prompts for the 2008 Bujold Fest! Take a look here. I'm sure you'll find something to tempt you. Story posting begins August 10th, and with a minimum word count of 500 words, you definitely have time. (Think: 500 words - that's a Five Things That Never Happened drabble series.) Thank you to sahiya for organizing and for collating that huge list of prompts.

Also, take a look at the beautiful new Blake's 7 fanfic archive Hip Deep in Heroes (great name). I had a play with it this morning and it's dead easy to use: go, post! (I gather that if you're familiar with the Doctor Who archive A Teaspoon and an Open Mind you'll find this similar to use.) Thank you to vandonovan and everyone else who has helped create this.

Comments

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Do you think of your pro Who stuff as canonical, out of interest?

I've been pondering this over the last couple of days and I came to the conclusion that I just don't naturally think in terms of canon/canonicity. The aim is to write something that doesn't (to the best of my ability) contradict anything seen on screen, because that makes the process an intellectual pleasure of teasing the story out of the gaps, rather than 'playing by the rules'. Which of course I'm going to prefer to imagine myself doing!

Having said that, the moment I saw the word I'd established for the postwar Cardassian head-of-state used by another writer in one of the Trek books, I got a massive thrill: "I HAZ MADE TREKZ! LIKE - PROPER TREKZ!"

I don't know if the DW Big Finish productions are generally seen as canon, btw. The debate about the canonicity or otherwise of the Star Trek books is raging at the moment - again - over at the Trek BBS. I just read in that thread that the Star Wars books talk in terms of an "Expanded Universe", which I think means, "Canon until George Lucas decides to contradict it on screen."

Hmm, not sure I answered your question.