Whispers

femgenficathon

1. A Deadly Woman

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. | The Cure is ripped from Rogue's genetics by a mysterious time traveler. She is offered the assistance and training of the Institue or the dubious aid of a terrifying scientist. Instead she turns to the Guild of Thieves that has embraced her for their own—and her own dangerous mind.


2. Rehab

We specialize in the wholly impossible. | Four bright young women had come together at long last to address a growing and vital need in the mutant community: vigilante rehabilitation.

Ideas on which four women I should use? I love Rogue and Kitty, but I want to add some other people that aren't vigilantes, and I need two.

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StoryTime: The Blue Princess

Charles thinks Raven's too old for bedtime stories. It's so much easier to just read her his textbook. [1, 2, the illusive 3]

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It's Hour Come Round at Last for in_the_blue



It's La Femme Nikita with Operations!Nikita, and I want it perfect for my own sake and totally stand-alone if you haven't seen the show. Yeah.

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Sorry to lithiumlaughter. Body Heat is beyond my brain cells at the moment.




See you on the other side of the stories!

So let's just say that doing this job app for transcription has melted my brain cells and I'd like to rebuild. Nothing does that for me better than planning a story. [Note: not working on a story.]

So enter Broken Time.

The amazing luciademedici liked "Entertaining Angels" and wanted more. [I'm still getting over the shock. Someday I'll tell you about the AMAZING writers way better than me that have bowled me over by saying they like my work.]

So, I immediately pulled out my notes and reviewed how much research I'd need to do to make this happen.

First of all, I'm founding the Guild, so that means 300 years of history [did I mention I've never cared for writing historical fiction?] and figuring out what was what in New Orleans at that time. [Note to self: I. Am. Nuts.]

Here we go:

From Wikipedia: "Recognizing the importance of the Mississippi River to trade and military interests, France made New Orleans the seat of civilian and military authority in 1722. From then until the United States acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase on December 20, 1803, France and Spain traded control of the region's colonial empire."

Very interesting. Especially as Broken Time starts sometime around 1700. And that means the Guilds might play an interesting part in the primacy of New Orleans.

"France ceded most of its territory to the east of the Mississippi to Great Britain in the aftermath of Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War or French and Indian War, as it is known in North America. It retained the area around New Orleans and the parishes around Lake Pontchartrain. The rest of Louisiana became a colony of Spain after the Seven Years' War by the Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1763.

"In 1765, during the period of Spanish rule, several thousand French-speaking refugees from the region of Acadia (now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, Canada) made their way to Louisiana after having been expelled from their homelands by the British during the French and Indian War. They settled chiefly in the southwestern Louisiana region now called Acadiana. The Spanish, eager to gain more Catholic settlers, welcomed the Acadian refugees. Cajuns descend from these Acadian refugees.

"Spanish Canary Islanders, called Isleños, emigrated from the Canary Islands of Spain to Louisiana under the Spanish crown between 1778 and 1783.

"In 1800, France's Napoleon Bonaparte acquired Louisiana from Spain in the Treaty of San Ildefonso, an arrangement kept secret for two years."

I think I'm going to go nuts. This is a bit of history that could make everything messy. Unless...

Spoilers!

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When I write the final chapters of a long fic, planning those final moments to write toward. The fifth and fourth to last and last chapters of Moments are finished.

When I wrote Whispers, I learned that there are times to wing it (early in the fic especially), times to reenvision and revise (about chapter 48 or 50), and times to plot that final course (around the seventies or eighties). And this story has even more riding it on the first one. It has to resonate with the original ending and bring completion to not just the 100 drabbles of Moments, but also all that came before. It has to feel complete but open-ended. It has to satisfy.

I'm very happy to say that the last chapter satisfies me.

I'm also taking this moment to say that I could not have made this trek without the reviewers. Especially Moviemom44 who always understand exactly what I was trying to say—whether or not I did! I appreciate every person that has made writing this story arc so wonderful and meaninful. [and I promise Whisper is coming... soon.]