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

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

A great big YES!! to the Alastair stalking Dean idea. You're right, there just wasn't enough of that in the show. Dean should have been afraid of Alastair showing up around every corner. My other hoodie time story is kind of a wreck too, but I think it's salvageable. I set it in season four and I just can't get a handle on S4 Sam that makes him anything less than an total jerk and I want him to be there for Dean at least a little before he's actually forced to be. Good luck redoing your fic. It really is depressing when you get so far and it just doesn't work. But there's always another idea and I know you'll come up with a good one!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Season 4 Sam *is* kind of a jerk, poor bunny. He's so wrapped up in Ruby's mind-games that he can't see straight.

On the whole, Season 4 makes me hurt a LOT.

The one good thing about the now-trashed fic was having Dean freaking out and thinking he saw Alistair everywhere. I really liked that, and I plan on using it again. :)