Well, shit

[ratherastory]

:::Authorial wibbling about a challenge below. Not BigBang.:::

I'm re-reading the fic I started in November (or maybe early December) for the hoodie_time challenge, and it really, really shows that I didn't know the Show that well at the time. Ack. Holy shit.

I have come to the conclusion that it's not salvageable in its current state. Having looked at it with a fresh eye, I can see what I was aiming for, and I totally missed. By a country mile. Which pisses me off, because there are 13,000 words there that I'm essentially flushing down the toilet. But the fic is meandering, doesn't have a clear structure, and while I love the OCs I introduced, it's all... really freaking disjointed and not workable.

It's not the end of the world. I will go back, look at the prompt, come up with something more useful to do with it.

On the plus side, the challenge is for a minimum of 2,500 words. I can totally do that. I think I might try to make this an exercise in concision for me (I have trouble keeping anything I write under 3,000 words: it's a curse).

I'm considering an AU in which Sam doesn't kill Alistair, because that scene pissed me off from a narrative perspective: WHERE IS DEAN'S CLOSURE? WHERE?!? Maybe a series of short(ish) stories about Alistair stalking Dean until things come to a head. In the meantime, I'll write the one prompt, and see where it takes me.

Comments

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

So wait, when did you actually start watching the show?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

October. I kinda blitzed through all the episodes until I was caught up in just under four weeks.

*cough*

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

WOW!!!! Welcome to the show and all the craziness that goes with it!!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I take it you didn't know I was all shiny and new in the fandom? :)

The RL craziness is kind of mind-blowing, actually, and I'm only seeing the periphery. Yikes!

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

You definitely had me fooled :)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, well it wasn't my intent. ;)

I fell hard for this show back in October. I've never done that with a show before, let alone participate in fandom. I don't regret it for a moment, though.

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

I started on the fandom after the end of season 3. Dean went to hell, and I COULD NOT deal with waiting until the fall for more episodes. I hadn't ever THOUGHT about reading fanfiction before then. I never thought I would end up writing it, or meeting such wonderful people because of it.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Guh. My sympathies. I think that between the writers' strike and the whole deal-thing, I would have gone nuts waiting for the summer to be over.