: about the story ::
In January 2016, I discovered a mobile
game called Lifeline. It took the form of an interactive
fiction story about an astronaut who had crashlanded on a barren,
distant moon. That game, along with its, at the time, two direct sequels
(Silent Night and Halfway To Infinity), lit a spark
in me -- I wanted to write a fanfic about these games. And due to the
main character being named Taylor, I knew it had to be a Hanson
crossover.
But until one week before the July 2019 session of Camp NaNoWriMo started, I hadn't done a thing with it. No research, no new playthroughs to remind myself of the story, nothing. So instead of working on The Sound Of Light as I'd originally planned to, I chose to finally begin work on my Hanson/Lifeline crossover and set my goal as 10,000 words. If nothing else, it would be a chance to work out the writing kinks that had been plaguing me for well over a year, and I knew it would get the idea out on paper once and for all.
It turned out to be the best decision I could have made. On July 19 2019, twelve days before the end of Camp for that month, I crossed the finish line with a verified word count of 10,836. It takes its title from the song Starlight by Muse.
But until one week before the July 2019 session of Camp NaNoWriMo started, I hadn't done a thing with it. No research, no new playthroughs to remind myself of the story, nothing. So instead of working on The Sound Of Light as I'd originally planned to, I chose to finally begin work on my Hanson/Lifeline crossover and set my goal as 10,000 words. If nothing else, it would be a chance to work out the writing kinks that had been plaguing me for well over a year, and I knew it would get the idea out on paper once and for all.
It turned out to be the best decision I could have made. On July 19 2019, twelve days before the end of Camp for that month, I crossed the finish line with a verified word count of 10,836. It takes its title from the song Starlight by Muse.