NaNo this year (2018)
So, if the computer will cooperate, I'm rewriting Catalyst this year AU-style (like I did once with Outbound Flight, basically) for my main SW series (the one with the Thwarting the Revenge of the Sith trio that I endlessly seem to be fiddling with and adding to every time I turn around). If I have another scare like I did yesterday and this morning, though, I may end up having to to shelve the Catalyst rewrite until later for a more easily accessible file (read: probably either book one or book two of the aforementioned TtRotS trio) and have to learn to try to type on my mom's ridiculously little laptop with its insanely small keyboard (something no one in this household wants to have happen) while I generate my 50,000 words by adding new chapters because of reasons (like, oh, you know, Katooni and her friends, and the Jedi younglings in general, and orphaned Padawans [what, I wonder, do they typically call the Masters who lose their Padawans? If Padawans are orpahned, are Masters vilomahed?], and Riyo Chuchi and her people - and hey, one of Lucas' daughters in the films plays a Pantoran [and basically that whole family in The Clone Wars is based on Lucas' family, including him, his two adopted girls, and his boy] and those are Riyo's people, plus, Chi Eekway Papanoida is also a Senator on the Delegation of 2,000 and therefore also signs the Petition of 2,000, so I feel like I should be talking about her in there somewhere, and then there's Lux and the whole mess on Onderon [and seriously, WTF folks, it's like every time an interesting female character gets introducted on The Clone Wars, if there's any kind of romantic angle, be sure that woman is going to be mishandled and ultimately killed off in order to further a male character's story somehow. I am NOT letting Steela Gerrera die in my AU series. Frak that. Seriously. Just. NO], and whatever the ever-loving-frak they think they're doing to Mandalore's history [seriously, WTF is up with this whole Mandalorian Excision crap?!?!?! Is this even something that should be at all considered even approaching any level of whatever the heck they're calling it now, instead of EU, Legends, I guess, since it's definitely not canon, no matter what Dave Filoni or Jason Fry may have to say about it, since, from what I can tell, none of this ever actually made it into anything canonical, since The Clone Wars got cancelled when it did, and who the heck even knows WTF Disney is going to do with The Clone Wars revival?] - and my pathological inability to just shut up and stop adding new characters, basically), since that never seems to require much thinking at all on my part and odds are that if I have to do NaNo this way (sans our actual computer), I'm going to need all the help I can get, just to keep from hurting something or someone (like the uncooperative computer).
Anywho - ! It'll be SW either way, since apparently I am just as insane as ever. It all just depends on what the computer does and if any more programs start inexplicably refusing to open or they open but are completley blank (as, for awhile, my character map and various and sundry files I tried to open all were).
I hope the computer cooperates, though. I want to rewrite Catalyst. The more I think about it, the more sure I am that Lyra Erso is completely unreliable as a narrator and the more and more uncomfortable I become with her behaviour towards her husband and towards Orson Krennic (her husband's best/closest/only real friend who hasn't been a mentor/teacher, as far as the text is concerned) and therefore the more certain I am that there's a lot going on behind the scenes and in between the words of that text that I need to uncover. There is something very odd about the relationship between Orson Krennic and Galen Erso. If not for the way that Galen is consistently portrayed, I'd be seriously worried about the fact that they first meet when Orson is only fifteen and Galen is apparently twenty or nearly so, according to the dates given for when they're in the Futures Program together . . .
Anywho - ! It'll be SW either way, since apparently I am just as insane as ever. It all just depends on what the computer does and if any more programs start inexplicably refusing to open or they open but are completley blank (as, for awhile, my character map and various and sundry files I tried to open all were).
I hope the computer cooperates, though. I want to rewrite Catalyst. The more I think about it, the more sure I am that Lyra Erso is completely unreliable as a narrator and the more and more uncomfortable I become with her behaviour towards her husband and towards Orson Krennic (her husband's best/closest/only real friend who hasn't been a mentor/teacher, as far as the text is concerned) and therefore the more certain I am that there's a lot going on behind the scenes and in between the words of that text that I need to uncover. There is something very odd about the relationship between Orson Krennic and Galen Erso. If not for the way that Galen is consistently portrayed, I'd be seriously worried about the fact that they first meet when Orson is only fifteen and Galen is apparently twenty or nearly so, according to the dates given for when they're in the Futures Program together . . .