Distracted wrote:I suppose anything's possible, but I've pretty much moved on at this point. Except for Lerteiran, I'm trying to devote my time to writing something of my own in my own universe rather than in Mr. Roddenberry's. It's coming more slowly than I anticipated, in part because I keep getting drawn back into ST fandom by discussions like this.
Oh well. I'm just weak and easily distracted. Thus the screen name.
Whatever floats your boat, I say
. I think probably the best way to write outside of Star Trek is to let Star Trek give you ideas... but for someone like me, IDK if your experience has been anything like this, but like 80% of my writing experience and learning has been in Trek, so I couldn't really just stop cold turkey if I wanted to. It's too much a part of how I learned to write, even though I did little bits of short fiction before. My "major works" before Enterprise, so pre-2005, were... a story called World War 3 about aliens helping the Allies defeat the Soviet Union; a tragic romance about two lovers surviving a school shooting; and a collection of stories about people who narrowly escaped death (fictitious). That's about it! 
Occasionally what'll happen (which I never follow up on because I have no TIME!
) is I'll get this great idea for a normal story, non Trek, not even sci fi, from an Enterprise or Trek story... or lately sometimes from Terminator... but I've had tons from Trek. It goes both ways, I guess... I'll have an idea for a normal story and go "hey that'd be awesome in the Enterprise universe!" In any case, if I was going to devote a serious effort to trying to move out of Trek writing, I would probably start by continuing to write Trek until something conventional, aka, non-sci fi, struck me and I went "I'm going to write that!"
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