Horses and Streams

 

Good artists copy; great artists steal.  (supposedly from Pablo Picasso)

OK:  You aren’t going to like this, but I am changing horses in mid-stream.  

The reason that you see the quote above is that I am becoming more uncomfortable and constricted by the “original sin” kind of theft that is the current arc of my storyline.  I suppose that FanFic is a nice way of lifting a fictional universe and hijacking it for your own purposes.  Fair enough.

But FanFic theft is less a high-class cat burglar and more of a smash-and-grab theft.  That is bad, but the real truth of the issue is that using that fanfic universe serious limits the range of what you can do with the universe (that is, if you have any respect whatsoever for the originator).

So, don’t plan on seeing anything here in the near future.  I am going to keep the characters and the basic storyline, but shift everything to another universe of magic.  A little less Lovecraftian, a little more magic-fantasy with a touch of high-tech and a smidgen of steampunk.

I am going to work on the same sort of timeline as weird of Hali, and blend it with the “long emergency” with a smattering of steampunk and a dollop of scifi.

So I am going to be working through what has been written thus far and re-write/edit things to make the move to the new universe.  Be patient with me.  I’ll put up another Dreamwidth site in a while and restart the project under new management.