Why research is bad for you...

[ratherastory]

So I've been a busy beaver, researching for "Roses in December," and the wikipedia page on TBI brought me to second-impact syndrome, and now I feel really evil for even thinking about that...

*plots*

:::ETA:::

On second thought, since this isn't meant to be a death fic, I think I may leave that one aside. Note to self: *finish* reading articles before you start plotting and getting ideas.

Comments

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

There is Sam, on his laptop, researching ways to save you and the world from horrible monsters, and you are researching new and inventive ways to whump him and his brother. The ingratitude of it!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I'm a terrible person and I'm going to hell.

*hangs head in shame*

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

And you know what you will be doing when you go to hell? Researching new hell-torments to inflict on Sam and Dean. And then posting them for us. From hell.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I get an office in hell? Sweeeeet!

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a NASTY condition!!! Please don't kill them off!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

No, no. That wasn't the plan. That'll teach me to think "Ooh, that could be interesting!" before I finish reading up on something.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Oooo... "second impact syndrome".. I have no idea what that is, but it sounds like delicious whumpage to me.*g*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

It sounded like it to me too! Then I read up on it and realized it's, like, 99% fatal. O_O

So I think I won't be revisiting it.

[roque-clasique.livejournal.com]

That sounds fucking awful, jesus. You could always come back to it later for a different fic *g* NO DEATH THOUGH! *is fragile*

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

No, I read up on it, and I really can't come back to it. It's, like, 99% percent fatal. Bleh. If I'm going to write a death fic, it won't involve this anyway. ;)

[greeneyes-fan.livejournal.com]

"Oh, wow, this is the worse thing I've ever heard of! Let's do it to the Winchesters!"

I've recently decided that my fic researching is a disease. I was looking through my stuff yesterday, and every one of them except the shortest at one point degenerated into an essay about SOMETHING. Not just medical stuff, either, one was how to cast silver with a campfire!

One day, I'm going to just sit down and write a story without looking up a damned thing. No Google Maps to learn about the setting, no lore and legends, no carefully precise medical details, no asking my husband about weapons.

Eh. I'd probably get everything wrong, then.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

"Oh, wow, this is the worse thing I've ever heard of! Let's do it to the Winchesters!"

*snerk*

Exactly.

I have yet to manage a single fic in which I didn't do some kind of research. Hell, my schmoopy 600-word cuddle fic involved researching how to make a soy latte. God.

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

ASJHSD;DADKJSFLD:AKDFSFL NOOOOOOOOOO.

(I researched this syndrome last month before starting my Big Bang. *hypocrite*)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

LOL

Seeing that it was like 99% fatal, I've decided to leave it aside for now.