Angsty wittering about BigBang, Part 1

[ratherastory]

This is likely the first of much angst-ridden wringing-of-hands posts about BigBang. Hey, y'all have been reading my Angsty Author's Notes long enough to realize that I am a giant neurotic mess about my writing, right? Right? Well, if you didn't, this is your official notice. ;)

So I'm making a poll. Because I can, and it amuses me. The poll has a three-fold purpose:

1- I noticed everyone and their cousin is making filters for BB, so who am I to resist jumping on the bandwagon? The thing is, filters are annoying and create extra work, so if no one cares I can just as easily shove the BB stuff behind an LJ-cut and put an end to it there.

2- I don't know what to write! (Yes, we're all shocked) The problem is not that I have no ideas, but rather that I have too many half-baked ideas. So I'm trying to make things easier on myself by putting the choice out there and seeing what happens.

3- An information request that has nothing to do with BB, or might end up being really crucial to it, I don't know yet. Humour me.

So, yeah. Here goes! :)


[Poll #1515094]

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Also, Original Characters are the backbone of a good casefic. I don't understand the weird premise that a lot of ficcers buy into that ALL OC's are somehow bad or Mary Sue-ish. It's not true and in fact a good OC will make a story (just as a bad OC can break a story).

The show is about Sam and Dean, sure, but they don't exist in a vacuum. :P

[zoemathemata.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. because usually it's the OC's that have the emotional connection in a casefic.

Remember Layla from "Faith"[Season 1]? That episode wouldn't have been as good without her. and if she hadn't been written/played correctly, NO ONE would have believed Dean at the end when he said he would pray for her.

So I'm hoping that my OC's will do okay out there in fandom. I already feel a certain connection to them. Like all my OC's they are like my kids! I have a ton of original fic [that I hope to finish and get published one day] and all my characters are near and dear to me.

Of course Sam and Dean are too, but I feel like their step-mom or adoptive mom, where as OC's are my babies!