The Kahzer Chronicles, as I said in my post "From Gallifrey to Kahzer" evolved from a series of Doctor Who and Torchwood fanfics and I still haven't made my way through them. In fact, there's one that's so timey wimey in origin, that I'm slowly working on turning it into its own story (Eventually... One day...)
I think the original story was called "The School of New Gallifrey" and involved Romana and Ace, who had seemingly teamed up (and no, I don't actually know how they ever met!) and were teaching people, including a few half-gallifreyans, what it was to be Time Lords. The Magnilda was in fact, a TARDIS.
I don't know why, but I felt as though I needed to give the story its own sense of identity. Oh, maybe I do know! It was around that time that I read Jim Butcher's "Codex Alera" and if you're not familiar with the series, I highly recommend it, but how the series came about (and therefore my inspiration to give the story it's own identity away from the Doctor Who universe) was that Butcher was challenged that he couldn't write a good story based on a lame idea. Butcher bet that he could do it on two lame ideas and gave the challenger the right to choose those ideas. The ideas were 'Pokémon" and "lost Roman legion." (lame according to the challenger, because I was a huge fan of Pokémon growing up - and the kids I work with are huge fans still!) As I said, if you're not familiar with the Codex Alera, track it down and give it a read, it's really awesome!
So, NaNoWriMo 2014 was when I began the great switchover. Giving those characters that had come from the Doctor Who universe their own identities, creating the lore and mythology of Kahzer and the galaxy around them. At first, it was supposed to be this giant space epic (you know, the type you see in the bookshops with 1,000+ pages and you wounder how you're going to secret it in your bag for illicit reading at every opportunity?
Then it was a series of ten or so smaller books, each with their own individual stories and 2015 had me reworking the story again, writing more, rewriting what I already had, changing the layout and format of the story until I was so utterly confused with it. Things spiralled as I had bits and pieces everywhere and I wondered how on earth I would get to the final, envisioned finale. Eventually, it got to the point that I had no choice but to put it to bed and in 2016, I would finally find something new to write.
I wouldn't pick The Kahzer Chronicles back up until 2020, when I saw an ad for a new serialised fiction app looking for writers. They wanted to focus on Science Fiction and Fantasy stories, not romance and I loved the idea, so I applied and was selected as one of the opening authors.
You can read all 101 episodes of The Kahzer Chronicles first season here!
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