Big Bang not-quite progress

[ratherastory]

Okay, so my draft is going to end up WAY shorter than my final version, but whatever. I have three days to finish. Here goes nothing:

53818 / 80000 words. 67% done!

Comments

[ash48.livejournal.com]

wow! 80,000 words?! Holy moly... (you are a fic writing machine!)

YOU CAN DO IT!! *cheerleading*

*\o/*

[tversan.livejournal.com]

Hang in there =) 67% is awesome!
I think people who write big bang are fantastic, I could never do it =)

[peppervl.livejournal.com]

You can do it! And any time I'm home this weekend, if you want to word war, let me know. I know you're working, but I'll be up late.

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

YOU CANZ DO IT!!!!!

*waves pom poms madly*

*\o/*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's probably going to hit about 65k for the first draft, and knowing me it'll go longer for the final draft. 80k is a conservative estimate at this point, given what I have planned. Gah. Why do I do this to myself?

Anyway, I'm not giving up. It would SUCK to get this far only to fail right at the finish line.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Never say never! :)

And yeah. Right now I'm just working on getting the main parts of the story DONE, and then once the deadline is past I'll work on fleshing the rest out. This has turned into even more of a monster than last year's Big Bang, and that's saying something. Eesh.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will totally take you up on that, because otherwise I'm going to DIE and never get this done.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

*cries quietly*

*keeps writing anyway*

[pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I'm sure that the final product would be amazing!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

God, I hope so. I've never written RPS. I wrote a teeny-tiny RPF fic last year, but nothing quite like this in scope. Eesh.

[pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com]

*hugs* you'll do wonderfully :) but I can relate! I'm doing for the first time a story for the spn_gen_bigbang and it's my first over 3-4K and it's scary!

[annie200.livejournal.com]

I'm going to be in the middle of a field in France this summer, in my house with no phone and no TV, but hopefully the Internet will be up and working and I will be able to spend my evenings reading "Ratherastory does War and Peace!"
Can't wait!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

So exciting! How is it going so far? I'll be taking part too, but I haven't started writing it yet.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

LOL

Be glad it's not as long as War & Peace! I know I'm glad. ;)

What will you be doing there?

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

*pets you*

*sends you chocolate*

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

ME TOO! It's my second fic over 3-4K and the first over 10K.

I'm all of 1,500 words into it though... *headdesk*

And ratherastory, THAT'S AWESOME! Especially since I thought you'd dropped out of that one...

[janie-tangerine.livejournal.com]

EEE THAT'S GOOD, YOU CAN DO IT!

(I scrapped what I had and started a completely different thing out of the blue. It should stop at 20000 words thankfully but let's hope.) I'm totally taking inspiration from you. *cheers*

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

I am in awe of you and your word count! Cannot wait to read your story.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

No, I dropped out of the ones ALSO due May 1st, because I was DYING. The Gen Big Bang should be okay, I hope...

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

HOLY CHRIST!

You had multiple Big Bangs due May 1st?! What were you THINKING?! That's a fast track to the crazy house and and and I DON'T WANT YOU IN THE CRAZY HOUSE BECAUSE HOW WOULD I GET MY FUSION FIX OTHERWISE?????? *wibbles* *cries*

I'm just doing the Gen BB and it's already driving me insane. Mostly because I made Dean insane and he's permanently shattered in an emotional sense. *pets him*

[swaggerdoodle.livejournal.com]

As someone who can barely get through a single paragraph these days, I can honest say I'm so jealous right now omg. GO YOU!! *\o/**\o/*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at the time I had a plan, but then life got in the way and I had to scrap two of 'em. Alas. Maybe next year the schedule will be more staggered and I'll be better off.

The first BB is always the hardest. You'll do fine. Just keep plugging away at it. :)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

LOL

I hear you. I did that last year for my BB too, although mine clocked in at about 75k last year. Guh. Why can my BBs never be simple? WHY?

*cheers back*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks. I hope I can pull it off...

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Writer's block sucks. I hope you'll be able to work through it soon. :(

[nwspaprtaxis.livejournal.com]

Awwww. Thanks. I should be better off now that I have a cheerleader to bounce ideas off of and she is helping me with a major (MAJOR) plot point I was stuck on and psyching out about. That's too bad about dropping two of them. I hear you about life.

*hugs*

And you'll do amazing. I look forward to reading this one (even though it probably won't be in one sitting....)

[annie200.livejournal.com]

I'm doing up a 200 yr old house there, or at least the builders have done most of it and I'm just painting stuff. Last year I was there for nearly 4 weeks with nothing but a bed, a chair and a microwave and fridge. This year I have a fitted kitchen and kitchen table AND a sofa!
The plan is to move there in a couple of years.
Internet is essential, but there's no ADSL so I have to get my satellite dish connected back up as I disconnected last Aug so as not to pay unnecessary charges. I fear that may have been a tactical error!

[swaggerdoodle.livejournal.com]

I seriously hope so, though I have come to sort of doubt it since I've had it for about three years now. Hence why you never see me post fic. :(

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

That really sucks. Fanfic is what got me writing again after a really long dry spell.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow! That's really cool. Any chance you can call ahead to get your dish connected in advance?

[annie200.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no as I need to call them whe it's all been pointed, but I need to be there to help with the pointing! Never mind, I have a friend who will help me out. You don't get to be my friend without suffering, and this particular form of suffering will involve ladders, roofs and 38C temperatures!

[swaggerdoodle.livejournal.com]

I really wanted to do BB and I came up with an amazing idea but the second I started to write it was like wading through wet cement. Which sucks because three years ago I tried the BB and I actually went through three different rewrites, each one over 60k words. I ended up not posting though because I really didn't like the story in the end. Still, I miss the creativity and freedom of being able to just write. :'(

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

Yay! Hang in there! And I'm sending you lots of good karma, as I don't know what else I can do to help. (But if you have any ideas - hit me!)

Yours is one of the spn_j2_bigbang fics I am most looking forward to!

P.S. I submitted my fic this week. I'm a J2AU newbie, too!

[pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com]

I know! Well, I joined the gsd_rtfn comm and I had two weeks just to write and I've gotten up to 9K and I've outlined the story :)

[pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com]

Good luck! I honestly don't have the time either *hugs* but we just have to write it by July so plenty of time! I've used two weeks of holiday recently to write and it really got me in the swing of things--I've got around 9K out of the 15K and I'm not even finished with the story!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I joined too and got about 20k out of the deal, so that's pretty good. It's a great little comm for that.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Excellent news! You are going to kick ass, I know it. :)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I am going to write until the very last possible second before conceding defeat. I think I can do it, but it's going to be hard.

[bellatemple]

You can totally do it! (And I added a crapload to my big bang last year, I think the key is to have the very basic plot line in place with the rough.)

[pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com]

I know :) unfortunately, the next round is during exams for me so I'm going to be busy busy with that instead of the round. But I really enjoyed doing the round.

[pinkphoenix1985.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I hope so but I just don't know. I'm doing an AU of S6 involving Sam as RoboSam and his year with the Campbells. Not the most favorite of characters...