Tag: Krystine Leone

WIP Progress Report: January 2015

Since the last progress report, I’ve been pretty busy with writing new stuff!

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WIP Progress Report: 2014, thus far…

What have I been up to since the last progress report?  Quite a lot, actually…

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Prompted: Originality Triumphs

And here is yet another prompt from the Ad Astra Blog Community, but this time it’s talking about original settings.  This topic is definitely relevant to how I write within Trek.

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Best Laid Plans

Starfleet Commbadge from the 2360s by Kris Trigwell

As with all things, sometimes when you make a plan, things don’t turn out that way you thought they would.  Full Speed Ahead is no different, and the big multi-season plan has changed pretty significantly as to warrant whole episodes being rewritten wholesale.  In this post, I’ll talk about what happened, and what happening now.

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Damn the Torpedoes eBook

FSA1 Cover

Not too long ago, TrekUnited Publishing made an announcement within the comments of another post on this blog that stated that Full Speed Ahead would be released in eBook format under their label.

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To Triumph and Not to Mourn

As I said in a previous post, the latest Full Speed Ahead story, “To Triumph and Not to Mourn,” was completed. It has now been fully published at Ad Astra!  I wanted to take a few moments to talk about what went into the production, so if you’ve not yet read it (or the immediately …

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Task Force Vanguard

Full Speed Ahead warps to take its place within the huge United Trek crossover event: Task Force Vanguard!

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Author’s Commentary: TQB “Agamemnon”

Captain Edward Jellico

 In this next episode of Author’s Commentary, I’ll be discussing the impetus and execution of the first part of The Quarterdeck Breed, “Agamemnon.”  Reading the story prior to reading the commentary is strongly advised, otherwise you might be lost amongst the referential material.

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FSA Series Bible: Part One

Starfleet Commbadge from the 2360s by Kris Trigwell

I treat Star Trek: Full Speed Ahead like a series on television; I write the episodes to around 10,000 words, which is roughly 55-60 pages of material. In order to keep things in an organized fashion, I’m putting together a Series Bible with all the information contained inside.  In theory, another writer could possibly write an …

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Author’s Commentary: The Better Part of Valor

I realize it might seem strange to do a flashback story so early on in the series, but I felt like it was important to show how Leone and Ariel were before they got to Farragut.  Which is to say, not a whole lot different, but I think this episode shows Leone in a different …

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