Filler Post
While looking for the J&B story, I went through a lot of old disks and found quite a few E2 stories I had started but never finished, and many of them had to do with the secondary characters and their backgrounds. Everyone who has ever written E2 stories has their own idea about what these people were doing on the project, which were colonists and which were crew, and what they did before joining the Eden project. I was reading over some of the stories and discovered most were unfinished because what I was writing for individuals led to ideas for stories about the group that I did finish.
One story I found was a lengthy one where some of the crew return to the stations on the colony ship and then make plans to return by stealing an up to date colonizing ship. I must have had a thing back then for Danziger and Heller getting together because I was amused to find a passage where they do just that. It revolved around a plot device that I'm going to use in 9 Weeks. It threw a whole new spin on the Britt Navarro/Alonzo connection that I think is going to be better than what I originally planned.
I completely forgot about it, but now that I'm reminded about it I think I can get something interesting out of it by way of sending the Julia/Alonzo romance in a new direction.
In fact, it's going to be the "hard choice" Alonzo thinks about in the story "Inland Sea," too.
Anyway, in addition to working on Chapter 5 of 9 Weeks, I'm also finishing the back stories of the other crew members that I started. The only one that isn't a completely original idea is the Cameron story. It's become kind of fanon with Earth 2 fanfic writers that he is a geologist and a colonist - I think the actor suggested this himself. I think I read that somewhere.
Rereading the unfinished stories is giving me a whole new interest in finishing them. Hey, I might even finish the long one and get the crew back to G889 in their stolen ship, too.