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WIZARDS IN SPACE?
Oh, self. NaNo is days away, and you are already having serious second thoughts. You have a lovely (well, relatively, we can both agree this story is already turning into crap that we don't want to write) story, planned backstories for filler flashbacks at any stuck point, and you're rethinking things?

Soso, I've been watching Stargate SG-1 obsessively for the past few days (minus the Blackout of Megadoll's Evil Internets), and that gets me thinking I should try my pen (aka keyboard) at Sci-Fi. And yet I know, Fantasy is my genre of personal choice in what I read, and have more knowledge in. Which makes me think, what about Sci-fi/Fantasy? The best way I can put it is Wizards in Space, but um that's definitely not what I would write. BASICALLY what I'm thinking of is "aliens" with spacecraft and airships and also devices that are, essentially, "magical" in a society founded in more archaic principles rather than what we generally associate with technologically advanced humanoid species. Okay, that's a stretch since in most Sci-fi I've seen, things are quite "traditional" (current thoughts are of Star Wars society). Well. Some, not most. OF COURSE what I would call in basic, Wizards in Space, has likely been done before but that doesn't discourage me.

And admitting to those thoughts makes it very wantwant. Sigh.

WELL, I'll just sort of "convert" the characters I already have and put them on a alien planet with "magic" doo-hickeys. Merr, where is my comfort zone?