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A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
I think it depends on what the story demands, erika. If it's set up well and means something -- either in character development or moving the plot -- then go for it.
The danger is something like Giles getting knocked out all the time, I think. That was played as a running gag after a while, of course, but in a novel, unless your tone is pretty light, that's harder to pull off.
AU Channel Christmas Specials
Carl The Christmas Vampire
Little Match Girl II: She's back from the dead and out for revenge.
Saving Pottersville: Can the people of a thriving metropolis be saved from an evil spell that seeks to make them vanish as though they'd never existed?
Dreidel of the Dead: "shin" in this game will cost you more than just Hanukkah gelt.
CSI North Pole: who killed the sinister Arctic sweatshop owner with the midget fetish?
Little Match Girl II: She's back from the dead and out for revenge.
That is wonderful. There are no words for how much I loathe the original story.
It was the first one I came up with.
The Terror of Jingle Bells: Who will survive the race with the wolf pack?
The Terror of Jingle Bells II: They've eaten Grandma. Who will be next?
Little Match Girl III: She's back with her matches and this time she has gasoline
CSI NY: The bearded man at Macy's claimed he was Santa, but what was he doing with little girls?
Other AU sequels:
Little Red Ridinghood II: Revenge of the She Wolf
Little Red Ridinghood III: The Woodsman with his Ax Gave Grandma 40 Whacks
Jack and the Beanstalk II: The Ho-ho-horrible Revenge of the Giants
Cool, Ginger. Anyone else?
Frosty the Snow-man: The first taste is free.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer II: Payback's a bitch.
We Three Kings, the Rambo Remix: The Kings arrive with their palace guards and have a showdown when Herod's troops show up.
A Christmas Carol (rejected concepts): Christmas Future--The Cratchits sell their oldest daughter to Mother Fitz to get the money for Tiny Tim's medical care.
(sorry about the last one, Victorian England was a nasty place)
Murder on 34th Street
Ho-ho-Homicide-How Grandma Got Run Over By The Reindeer F---g Golden Holidays: A Chicago Frickin' Miracle
Feeling sort of bummed by my blogging assignment these days. Every month there's more rules and the editor seems less satisfied by what I do. Yes, the prop 8 post was inspired, but this is a side job, and I'm a writer, not a content module. I can't just push a button on the side of my head and get something brilliant. If I could, I'd want more money.What should I do? Admittedly, even I would have called my last posts "fine," rather than "great," but when I get perfectionist, he bitches that I'm not writing enough.