do not go gently into that good night

This looks really interesting! I always love feedback on my fic and some concrit would be excellent.



END OF YEAR FEEDBACK MEME
my thread here

Stolen from de_nugis: Post the first sentence (or three) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, you'll get talking about writing, and the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!


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Ha ha, remember when my Winter story was 7,000 words? Ha ha ha!

45k and counting, folks. Yup.

So that Christmas fic  I told you about? Yeah, not gonna happen. I was trying to finish it but it kept getting bigger and bigger and then angels were swooping in and Dean was getting angry at Cas and Sam's poor toes kept getting frozen until I realized I had to map out an outline for it and then the outline kept morphing into bits of dialogue and I'd have to start again but finally I have reached A DECISION.

I'm not going to abandon it on the side of the road like an unwanted child (although that option did occur to me). It's one of those things you either have to shun or embrace fully and either choice can be disastrous. I'm nervous because I've never attempted something this big for fandom and the people who have and have done it well make me feel pitiful to the extreme, but, what the heck, I've got to try it sometime.

I'm going to write it and it's going to be centered  around Christmas, but it's going to have a much bigger scope than it did originally. I'm still trying to wrap my head around it, but a slew of new ideas hit me the other day and I realized that the ending I had in mind was completely different (and much happier) than my original run-for-the-Kleenex ending which ironically saddened me so I'm figuring out a way to combine the two feels. Any advice as to how to combine those two different tones would be much appreciated.

/tmi

tl;dr? My Christmas fic will be a year late. To make it come faster, how do you figure out what tone you want to write with? Give me fic examples. I love paxlux's stuff but I don't write that way (the closest I've come is with "Scarlet Strings"). Still, I want that kind of mood set for this story.

This post has been brought to you by too many thinky-thoughts, a crazy night out with friends, and an early morning tomorrow. I'm sure I will bitterly regret the inanity of all I say here in the morning.

...I need some writerly skills practicing. Obviously, just by looking at that sentence.

Link me/insert an icon or screencap from Supernatural. I write a drabble (something I have never done before). We all win.

I just got back from a weekend in Arizona to visit family. The drive was about 7 hours, very little to see besides tumbleweeds, cacti, the blazing sun, and red rock. Naturally, I'm thinking of Sam and Dean trekking across the desert with no A/C in the Impala, but that's beside the point.

The point is that I am now hung up on wing!fic. Involving Sam, specifically.

I resisted for about 5 minutes before deciding that I would write Sam with wings living in Arizona with Dean, possibly bringing in some of the Native American lore. Of course hunters want to kill him for being an abomination and there is danger and peril and Sam flying high above everything in the big blue yonder.

Now I have a question for you: is this horrendous?

Also, when should this be set? It's AU--I have no idea what I'm doing. Some weird in-the-future thing? Pick up where S5 left off? Skip Stanford, make Sam and Dean go to Arizona instead (so they're set S1)?

Question: is it worth it to write Supernatural fanfic about past seasons? I mean, specifically for episodes. I'm working on something inspired by 3.07, and I'm looking at it on the heels of 5.16 and thinking that no one's going to want to read it because it's "outdated."

Is this true, or does fandom read new stuff about old episodes? I've never written fanfic for a TV series before Supernatural, so I'm not sure how it works. Do you guys ever get inspired by old episodes?