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Madrugada MOD Since: Jan, 2001
28th Apr, 2017 06:02:06 PM

Story by that name in hosted on fanfiction .net. Only three results via Google, though. Our page, fanfiction .net and the same work on gofanfiction.club. It's not a finished work at all; just sort of an outline/list of ideas.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12462613/1/MSTC

Hint, when using the actual Google search, enclosing a word or phrase in double quotes will limit t he search to exactly that string of characters, so you don't get the false hits for things like blog posts that happen to include all the words you searched for, but not the exact phrase.

Edited by Madrugada ...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
28th Apr, 2017 06:08:10 PM

So, in that case since it's more a collection of ideas and an outline rather than a fleshed out story does it run afoul of the unpublished works ban and need to be moved to Darth Wiki, or does it stay?

Berrenta MOD Since: Apr, 2015
28th Apr, 2017 07:55:21 PM

Move it to Darth Wiki, as there is no actual story.

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Madrugada MOD Since: Jan, 2001
28th Apr, 2017 08:48:32 PM

I concur with Berrenta; it belongs in Darth under Unpublished, if it belongs anywhere. Personally, I'd be inclined to cut it as not being a work at all. but it's definitely not a published work.

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
SeptimusHeap MOD (Edited uphill both ways)
29th Apr, 2017 01:07:51 AM

Seems published to me. If the page is troping only the stuff that has been put out in public, it is published. If it's just a collection of ideas, it's indeed cutlist material but not Darth Wiki material.

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Madrugada MOD Since: Jan, 2001
29th Apr, 2017 06:41:21 AM

It is just ideas (in chapter 1 this will happen, of course there'll be the obligatory "X" scene, basic plot outline, and such,) , bit's of dialogue, and brief character sketches and such. It's notes for a work that might or might not ever be written, not a work itself, by any stretch.

Edited by Madrugada ...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
tryrar Since: Sep, 2010
29th Apr, 2017 12:52:36 PM

In any case, added to the cutlist

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