Writings by C.R. Scott

Title:  Innocence Lost

Genre:  Angst/Grief

Rating: PG-13

Fandom: DCU (pre-reboot Red Robin/Batman)

Pairing: none

Word Count:  1000

Summary:  In Red Robin 25, Tim Drake life and virtue were saved by Cassandra Cain.  What if his life had been saved, but nothing else instead?  What happens twelve months after the fact?

Warnings:  Possible triggers for mention of rape and surrendering a child for adoption

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Title:  The Silver Bell

Genre:  Gen/Fluff

Rating: G

Fandom: DCU/The Polar Express

Pairing: Light Tim/Kon

Summary:  A few days before Christmas, in the attic of Wayne Manor, Tim and Kon come across a strange, oddly familiar silver bell among a forgotten childhood toy chest.  On Christmas Eve itself, the bell leads to an unexpected wondrous trip on a very special train…

Author Notes:  This story was originally created for this year’s Gotham Secret Santa project.  My Secret Santa was anachronisticaddendum and their major Xmas wish was for some Tim/Kon Xmas fluff.  I’ve never written this pairing before, and the story is not so much romantic as sweet, but I really enjoyed doing a story with these two boys together in a light crossover with “The Polar Express” story, and I hope my Secret Santa enjoys it too.

My apologies for the late posting of this gift, though.  I’d originally tried to submit it to the Gotham Secret Santa blog, but wonderful Tumblr ate my submission.  So I’m posting the original story here on my writing blog and queuing up the link instead.  Hopefully this goes through this time.

Happy belated holidays!

~Christina (afewnovelideas)

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Rabid plot bunnies are such a hassle to deal with sometimes…

I need to work on my story Blade of Misfortune and finish it’s outline.  It’s one of those stories where I feel like I need to outline it from start to finish before I start fleshing out the actual chapters. 

However, my imagination has also been taken over by two new story concepts.

The first is an idea for an original story, which is something I haven’t indulged in for quite some time.  This would combine dinosaurs and humans in a steampunk-esque world.  Right now I’m firmly in the world-building phase of things, trying to figure out things like location, history, and key characters who aren’t the protagonist or antagonist just yet.  It’s a rather trippy vision and I’m really looking forward to writing a full story in this world.

The second is an idea for another crossover fan fiction story.  This one would cross the DC universe (pre-reboot) with the Kingdom Hearts world.  This story is one that the plot bunnies are voraciously gnawing on. I don’t have a solid plot line to speak of for this story.  What I do have are a number of separate scenes that float in and out of my imagination as I work at my day job.

The first scene involves Tim Drake/Red Robin being the first “casualty” of an invasion of Heartless on the United States west coast.  His heart is stolen and while that is turned into a Heartless, his body and soul are turned into a Nobody, both of whom end up working for Xenahort, the main villain orchestrating the invasion on Earth.

The second scene involves the final hours of Earth’s heroes before the Darkness overwhelm it.  Leon and his allies reach Earth, and Batman manages to arrange for their youngest survivors to escape with them to Hollow Bastion.  This consists of a group of his surviving children and several Teen Titans.  The elders stay behind to keep the Heartless at bay to allow them to escape on Leon’s ship.

The third involves fast-forwarding a year later where Earth’s survivors are living, working, and fighting from Hollow Bastion, striving to defeat the Heartless and their leader so they can bring their world and friends back.  Several of them have the potential to become Keyblade masters.

At my desk here at the office I have a 3-subject notebook that is literally filled with all sorts of notes and outlines regarding all of these stories.  I’ll have one page filled with nothing but stuff on Blade of Misfortune, and then the page right opposite of it will be filled with stuff on dinosaurs and steampunk tech.

I love having all these ideas, but I hate not having the time to write it all down at once.

Does anyone know where I can pick up an extra set of hours I can add to every day?

Intellectual theft of written and artistic works SUCKS.

However, you shouldn’t let fear of that stop you from sharing your art or written words with the world at large.  That’s where a Creative Commons license comes in.

Using a Creative Commons license allows you to specify EXACTLY what rights you allow your creative works to be displayed with when you share them for free online, no ifs, ands, or buts about it.

If you’ve got a gallery at a place like DeviantART, you may have seen these licenses already, since they’ve had the “CC” licensing integrated into their system for a few years now.  However, have you really given thought as to what those various licenses mean?  For those of you who haven’t heard of or used a Creative Commons license, or don’t quite understand what they are, here’s an easy to understand breakdown of the six “CC” licenses, with definitions from CreativeCommons.org.

  Attribution -  This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation.

  Attribution ShareAlike -  This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. This license is often compared to “copyleft” free and open source software licenses. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.

  Attribution NoDerivs -  This license allows for redistribution, commercial and non-commercial, as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.

  Attribution NonCommercial -  This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

  Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike -  This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.

  Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs -  This license is the most restrictive of our six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially.

There are several key words here in these licenses that make all the difference in what can or cannot be allowed.

Attribution - However your original work is used, displayed, and/or sold, CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN to you as its original artist.

NonCommercial - However your original work is used or displayed, NO PROFIT can be made off of it by the person sharing it.

ShareAlike - If your original work contains a ShareAlike provision in its license, any derivative work created by another user from it MUST USE THE SAME LICENSE.

NoDerivs - This is short for “No Derivatives.”  This means that while other users can share it or display it, THEY CANNOT CHANGE THE ORIGINAL WORK.

If you are an artist or writer who wants to add a Creative Commons license to your artwork or writings here on Tumblr or elsewhere, it is really easy.  The people running CreativeCommons.org has created a form you can fill out that will automatically generate the text/code you can add to your website.

All you have to do is go to creativecommons.org/choose and fill out the information they request.  Below is an example of what the license looks like:

This is the code:

<a rel=”license” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/”><img alt=”Creative Commons License” style=”border-width:0” src=”http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png” /></a><br /><span xmlns:dct=”http://purl.org/dc/terms/” href=”http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text” property=”dct:title” rel=”dct:type”>Cover Your Creativity:  Protect Your Works with a Creative Commons License</span> by <span xmlns:cc=”http://creativecommons.org/ns#” property=”cc:attributionName”>C.R. Scott</span> is licensed under a <a rel=”license” href=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/”>Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License</a>.

And this is what it looks like onscreen:

Cover Your Creativity: Protect Your Works with a Creative Commons License by C.R. Scott is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

If you’d like to learn more about using Creative Commons licenses, or if you would like to learn more about how to support this organization’s great work, then please go and visit creativecommons.org.