the delphic expanse

A long while back I helped Aquarius out with a class assignment, doing a fic "workshop" via chat, for one of my then in-progress fics. It worked out really well and it came to mind recently.

At the moment I'm struggling with the Big Middle Part of two fics that are vying for room in my brain. I'm wondering if anyone here might be willing to (a) help me brainstorm/talk through the messy parts of the two plot outlines and (b) be willing to be spoiled in the process of helping out. Doing this in a chat room comes to mind - and the more the merrier! (If you wanna make a party out of it and live watch an episode too, I'm up for that.)

The first fic is an Enterprise one: TNT, romance, there's a twist, season three, it will be R, but none of the R-stuff has been written yet. Chapter One is done. I've got the ending worked out, but I'm struggling to put the middle in order. I know what I want to happen, and bits and pieces of how, but… argh! I've ended up researching some script writing tips and techniques that might help me work out some of the problems in order get the outline to a point where it works and the words flow, but having someone to talk it through would be great.

The second is a Sherlock fic: mystery (duh), action, suspense, G. Probably pre-Johnlock or at least heavy with that subtext. The middle here is much less of a mess. In fact, the structure's coming along pretty nicely, but there's a couple of spots in this outline where I'm scratching my head. I've identified one problem already that might change how I approach it but, again, it'd be great to hash this out with others.

Again, prepare to be spoiled if you want to help out. And, if we can't manage to schedule a live chat room connection, I'm happy to do this via e-mail or the workshop topics in this forum if more than one person is interested in participating.

What say ye?

Sounds very interesting. I'd be happy to help with the ENT story. I've never seen Sherlock so I probably wouldn't be much help with that one.

EntAllat, I'm fairly new to Sherlock but have seen it all and written some. So would be happy to help out with that one.

I would be more than willing to help out with both, EntAllat. I know a fair bit about Sherlock and am just starting the second in a series of Sherlock fics.

Awesome!

Cap'n Frances, we can start with the ENT fic and do the Sherlock one second - you can decide if you want to stick around and help with that or not at that point. I don't think it matters if you're familiar with the show or not, since it's really the movement of the plot and when to bring in certain elements that I'm struggling with. I.e. this would be a problem/solvable even if the story was entirely OC characters in my own original setting.

Can everyone connect to this TinyChat chatroom: http://tinychat.com/entallat? You do NOT need to authenticate with Facebook or Twitter or whatever it says. Just type in a nickname and go. If that doesn't work, I'll find something else. If that does work for everyone, I'll confirm a date and time.

How does this Saturday afternoon sound? 1pm Central Standard Time? What time zones are y'all in?

NOTE: Edited to change the proposed time after I looked a world time zone convertor.

The time should be fine for me. I'm in the Eastern time zone. I forgot to try out TinyChat last night on my Mac, but I think it should be fine.

Okay, we'll give it a try tomorrow (Saturday) at 1 pm CST (2 pm EST). I think that's 7 pm BST.

Oh, and if y'all have trouble with it (just ignore all of Tinychat's efforts to connect you to Facebook and sign in via "Guest" and your nickname) post here and I'll try to help you get connected. Our other option would be Google chat if Tinychat doesn't work out for everyone.

Yikes! Sorry I missed it EntAllat! I'm sick at the moment so I wasn't even away, got a really nasty cold/flu thingy. PM me if you still need help.

Hey, no problem Lilith! Cap'n Frances helped out with the TnT fic, but I could still use a chance to talk out the issues with the Sherlock fic. No worries - we can wait until you're feeling a little better, and then maybe Frakme can join us too.