Update on NaNo and other things...
First off, a friend of mine (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
zerawolfe7) was very helpful in working out issues in my NaNo plot, and I think I've got it mostly figured out now -- as much as I want to have figured out in advance, anyway.
And in other news, I recently contacted Kellogg's about their Frosted Mini-Wheats (upon discovering that they contain gelatin, which I don't eat because I'm a vegetarian and gelatin is made out of cow spine) to suggest that they take the gelatin out. Having used online contact forms before (for ABC, after Night Stalker got canned, and for CBS, after Jericho, etc), I was expecting a form letter in return. Instead, I got 1) an apology for the gelatin, 2) thanks for contacting them, 3) the sugggestion to try the organic frosted kind, which is gelatin-free, and 4) a coupon. The only kind I'd previously known was gelatin-free was the Unfrosted kind, so to find out about this other kind made my day. Sadly, something went wrong with the coupon printing, so I don't actually have a coupon, but they tried. I am very pleased with their customer service, gelatin or no.
Finally, in other, other news: God, I can NOT get that binder on. I tried again earlier, and by the time I gave up I had such a bad Indian-burn on my neck and arms that it looked like a sunburn. 9_9 (Admittedly, I'm freakishly white and turn red at the slightest provocation.) I can't imagine that I got the wrong size, but I'm starting to wonder. Suggestions?
zerawolfe7) was very helpful in working out issues in my NaNo plot, and I think I've got it mostly figured out now -- as much as I want to have figured out in advance, anyway.My problem was that the universes didn't have anything to do with each other and so there was no reason that, say, Peter helping stop the Apocalypse in the Dead Zone fandom would help him any. And I also couldn't really come up with a way for them to save all these universes.
Anyway, she and I talked about it and determined that it could all feasibly be Supernatural's fault. Some superpowerful demon caused some kind of rift and now demons are in other universes (eg., possessing Greg Stillson). Thus, the Apocalypse could be neutralized fairly easily. And fixing the Hell-on-Earth happening in the SN universe would basically be the ultimate point of the story.
As for the Catastrophe, 4400verse is basically seeming to solve that themselves, so I decided to just input Marco accidentally into the Heroes universe (something of an expanded version of my drabble Stranger in a Strange Land), just because I like him and because he could certainly help too, even if his universe doesn't need to be saved. (Also, come to think of it, I could use how new he is to his power to my advantage, and have him mistakenly end up somewhere someone needs to be that I can't get anyone else to logically (Dead Zone universe). That's handy.)
I'm not entirely certain how I can blame what I see as the entirely canon prospect of a second explosion in the Heroes fandom on demons/Supernatural, but I still have time to work that one out. (Maybe it's the demons that give Sylar his old powers back?)
So, I've pretty much got things worked out now. Unfortunately, the more this starts to congeal in my mind, the more I can cut out as irrelevant -- and that's looking like it's going to include FTM!Peter. Which is a shame. If I run out of words to say, I'm totally doing some teleportation-into-parallel-universes-for-no-reason-at-all ("Chapter X: And now for something completely different..."), just to get that in there, but it's not looking good for the idea of that actually having anything to do with the plot.
Ah, well. These things happen.
Anyway, she and I talked about it and determined that it could all feasibly be Supernatural's fault. Some superpowerful demon caused some kind of rift and now demons are in other universes (eg., possessing Greg Stillson). Thus, the Apocalypse could be neutralized fairly easily. And fixing the Hell-on-Earth happening in the SN universe would basically be the ultimate point of the story.
As for the Catastrophe, 4400verse is basically seeming to solve that themselves, so I decided to just input Marco accidentally into the Heroes universe (something of an expanded version of my drabble Stranger in a Strange Land), just because I like him and because he could certainly help too, even if his universe doesn't need to be saved. (Also, come to think of it, I could use how new he is to his power to my advantage, and have him mistakenly end up somewhere someone needs to be that I can't get anyone else to logically (Dead Zone universe). That's handy.)
I'm not entirely certain how I can blame what I see as the entirely canon prospect of a second explosion in the Heroes fandom on demons/Supernatural, but I still have time to work that one out. (Maybe it's the demons that give Sylar his old powers back?)
So, I've pretty much got things worked out now. Unfortunately, the more this starts to congeal in my mind, the more I can cut out as irrelevant -- and that's looking like it's going to include FTM!Peter. Which is a shame. If I run out of words to say, I'm totally doing some teleportation-into-parallel-universes-for-no-reason-at-all ("Chapter X: And now for something completely different..."), just to get that in there, but it's not looking good for the idea of that actually having anything to do with the plot.
Ah, well. These things happen.
And in other news, I recently contacted Kellogg's about their Frosted Mini-Wheats (upon discovering that they contain gelatin, which I don't eat because I'm a vegetarian and gelatin is made out of cow spine) to suggest that they take the gelatin out. Having used online contact forms before (for ABC, after Night Stalker got canned, and for CBS, after Jericho, etc), I was expecting a form letter in return. Instead, I got 1) an apology for the gelatin, 2) thanks for contacting them, 3) the sugggestion to try the organic frosted kind, which is gelatin-free, and 4) a coupon. The only kind I'd previously known was gelatin-free was the Unfrosted kind, so to find out about this other kind made my day. Sadly, something went wrong with the coupon printing, so I don't actually have a coupon, but they tried. I am very pleased with their customer service, gelatin or no.
Finally, in other, other news: God, I can NOT get that binder on. I tried again earlier, and by the time I gave up I had such a bad Indian-burn on my neck and arms that it looked like a sunburn. 9_9 (Admittedly, I'm freakishly white and turn red at the slightest provocation.) I can't imagine that I got the wrong size, but I'm starting to wonder. Suggestions?