Writing is haaaaaard!

[ratherastory]

I am having a fight to the death with this freaking thing I'm doing for a fic exchange. yasminke and pkwench have both done awesome jobs in confirming what I thought about the thing, and have nudged me in the right direction, but it's still like beating my head against a huge brick wall.

I am NEVER doing a fic exchange again. I need to be more in control of the prompts I get.

Meow!

Frustrated cat is frustrated.

(I mean, seriously. In the past four days I've knocked out five times as many words as this fic requires, and it all flowed beautifully. This fic? Is like pulling teeth. Boring teeth. I feel bad for the recipient of this fic, I do. The best I can hope for is to salvage something from the wreckage and make it less boring. Bleh.)

Comments

[pkwench.livejournal.com]

*smarms* You know I feel your pain. I can't even tell you how much fic I cranked out for that prompt I had so much trouble with. It's so terrible when you sign up for something and, then, feel like you've just backed yourself into a corner. I hate that feeling. Fortunately, when I jokingly said "fuck it, maybe I should just tie Dean up" - it actually really worked for me. LOL I whipped out a fic at the speed of light and I think it's probably been the fic most read and liked by theinternet. Go figure. Point being, you'll get there. You're brilliant and somehow, you'll find the hook, run with it, and it will be gold. Don't despair!

[pkwench.livejournal.com]

Mmm and because I'm a bad, bad cheerleader - what everyone else said. There really is a lot that's just lovely about the fic. Though I know it's meant to be Dean and Cas focused, Sam was just wonderfully done. God, if I didn't want to take him home and wrap him in blankets. There's also a lot of great dialogue and wonderfully tragic inside of Dean moments. Plus, that last line of Cas just makes me smile.