Life Viewed Through an Amber Focus

Oh, my gosh, you guys, I am on major fic muse overload.  I have written over 30,000 words in the past 4 days!  I should have another chapter of Hunger Moon up tomorrow.  I have written the first six chapters of Leap of Faith.  And I've written two more chapters on Chaste Moon, still somewhere in the middle of the fic.  It's like crazy Nine!muse overdrive.  If this keeps up I may very well finish HM in the next ten days.

FYI:  Leap of Faith is probably going to be a twenty chapter fic.  It is based on my short story Third Time's the Charm.  draconin thought, and I agreed, that it should be expanded into a multi-chapter fic before I wrote any kind of a sequel, which so many of you have asked me for.  And when I sat down to write it, it just took off.  This John Smith is certainly very different from the alt!Nine of the Better With You series, or the oh, so romantic Jonathon Smith (Ten2) of the Zeppelins 'verse.

Fair warning, he's a bit of a prat in the beginning.  And I'm totally in love with my Toshiko.  I've come to the conclusion that Rose needs Tosh coming into her life as much as she needs John and as much as John/alt!Nine needs Tosh.  She is coming off as a wonderful, wonderful friend.  You know, I've always loved the character of Tosh, but I haven't really written her much and I think she's finally going to get her due from me.  In a lot of ways this is going to be a Tosh and Rose friendship fic as well as a Rose/alt!Nine romance.  I haven't really seen the issue of Rose's possible loneliness for a strong female friend explored.

I am sorry that for the moment this is putting A Sky Without Stars on the back burner.  I know several of you have asked after Jonathon and Rose.  I do plan to dive back into it full force as soon as Hunger Moon is done, which I think will be four more chapters, while continuing to work on Leap of Faith until it is done.  I just really need to take advantage of the Nine!muse while it is roaring at top speed.  It's so much easier to write a fic when the ideas are flowing like mad.

More specifically my brain when the muses are at war.  A bit PG-13.
 

Well, this is just it.  I am not loaning my Nine-shaped Muse out again.  I'm just not.  He comes back all used up and rusty and broken and useless!  *sighs*  3765 words, a prologue, chapter one and part of chapter two later, Ten2 Muse is firmly in control.  It's quite AU/AR and totally out of canon, but it works.  I think.  I'm sorry.  I'm so sorry.  I wasn't strong enough to resist the lure.  The tragedy.  But oh, I like this new story.  Sent it off to Amy to beta and if I'm not deliriously wrong about it actually being good, I'll post the prologue/chapter one tomorrow and try to kick my Nine Muse back into productivity.  Well technically today sometime since it's 2:37 a.m. and I so need to go to bed.

Can someone please kick the Ten2 muse out of my head and help me find my Nine muse again?  I know exactly where the next chapters of both You're What? and Hunger Moon are supposed to be going and all I can think of right now is this new plot for an alternate Ten2 story and it's driving me crazy!