All in the details

[ratherastory]

Gah. Sometimes writing fanfic is a bit like smacking my head against a wall, especially when writing pre-series stuff.

I keep having to remind myself (as someone pointed out) that the Impala has no seatbelts. That even though cell phones existed when the teen!chesters would have been hunting, they were expensive and large and clunky and that only John would have had one, and only for emergencies. That Dean only invented rock salt-filled shotgun shells while Sam was away at Stanford.

So I get bogged down in trying to remember all of these details and then suddenly I don't remember what I was writing anymore. :P

Okay. I have a fic to finish, and once that's done I'm off to finish the latest installment of Fusion.

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

LOL

See my response to bellatemple above. I mean, seriously? No other hunter EVER thought of that? Sheesh.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

I mean, it's not like they're esoteric. Anyone that into guns must have heard of them previously. For goodness sakes, I've got a friend who makes it a policy to keep them on hand in case of bears! Though if I may digress, personally, in case of bears I'd rather have plain old shot, because I'd rather not *just* piss the bear off. (Bears are actually a problem where I live. One particular 700 pound one that's been terrorizing- well, vandalizing- my street for the last three years actually made the international news last spring).

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Did they handle the bear? Or is it still at large?

And yeah, I think the writers patted themselves on the back for their brilliance a little too soon. :P

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

It's still at large. It's very clever, and has managed to elude animal control, the cops, angry men with shotguns, and always steers clear of traps, bait, and all the rest.

Yes they did. It's always obvious when writers venture into areas they don't have a lot of personal experience. (Though at least they weren't doing salt *bullets* like some fics. That always makes me headdesk)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Salt BULLETS?

*dies laughing*

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

more than once, even.

That's the sort of thing that really bugs me, because you don't actually have to know anything about guns- because seriously, I don't, and I can see the problem there.