meet Uncle Magnum

having a rather interesting discussion/story building time here. The blending of Magnum, PI and Hawaii Five-0.

I have this whole world built up. Thomas & John were friends from Vietnam and crossed paths later when Magnum became a PI and John was a cop. Also, Steve probably snuck around Robin's Nest and got cornered by Zeus and Apollo.

Having a lot of fun playing 'what if' while I work up the nerve to actually WRITE THIS. wanna join? here or there.

what a way to write

I don’t know how this became part of my writing “process” but it is. When I know I’m going to write a new story that’s going to be a part of a series, I think of a cover art for the series. So I start looking for pictures to use, a title for the series and then I make the cover art.

All night I’ve been thinking about the Magnum, PI and Hawaii Five-0 crossover (and I think I might have had a dream about it as well?), so after I had breakfast, I started looking for Tom Selleck images to use – mostly of and older Tom that I could use as present day Magnum. Then I’m going to go through the screencaps from last week’s episode for pictures of John and Steve.

I have the pictures sorted, but I’m stuck with coming up for a name for the series. I have it tentatively titled as “The Hawaii Chronicles” with the first story titled “The Coolest Man I Know”. I’m not too fond of the title for the series, but I can’t think of anything else…might hold off on making the series cover art until I can come up with a better title.

this has a life of it's own!

I swear my h50_exchange fic has a life of it's own.

I keep working on it to wrap it up so that I can find and send it to a beta, but it keeps growing and growing.

It's not too large, just getting close to 2,000 words, and might be 2,500 words by the time I actually finish it

Which I'm hoping is soon as this is due Feb 23rd.