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ratherastory) wrote2010-05-27 01:06 pm
ratherastory) wrote2010-05-27 01:06 pm
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Two writing memes
1- From ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
embroiderama: a passage less than 500 words (paragraph/excerpt/very short fic/whatever) from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.
2- Fromsinnerforhire: First line of last 25 fics you wrote and try to find a pattern.
This one made me laugh, because I have exactly 27 fics written/in the works. A few weeks ago I wouldn't even have been able to do the meme in its entirety.
1- Lisa feels as though she's failing some subtle test which she never signed up to take.
2- A barista's work is never done, but sometimes there are slow days, and that's the day he comes in, complete with laptop and kicked-puppy expression.
3- This never happened...
4- A certain degree of separation was to be expected when it came to the Winchesters.
5- They stop in Toledo a couple of hours before sunset, and Dean shoves his hands in his pockets, fingerless gloves useless against the cold.
6- There are only a handful of people who have Bobby Singer's cell phone number.
7- Dean finds Sam sitting cross-legged on the floor of their motel room, clad in jeans and a soft, faded grey t-shirt, bare feet tucked under his knees.
8- Getting jumped by regular humans is bad enough, even if those humans are seasoned hunters.
9- After twenty years of dealing with it on and off, it's not a big deal anymore.
10- In her everyday life, Lindsey isn't much of a hand-wringer.
11- Dean's not exactly sure how he and Sam have ended up here, but he's learned to roll with the punches after fifteen or so years of being on the job.
12- “You going to eat that or keep turning it into a valuable work of abstract art?” Dean waggles his fork in the general direction of Sam's plate.
13- Sam is getting really tired of waking up in pain, alone and in the dark.
14- He's blind.
15- Sam hasn't screamed in days.
16- There is water dripping slowly onto the Devil's Trap, and Dean doesn't care.
17- Sam is sick to death of angels.
18- The first thing that Dean ever steals is a sandwich.
19- “I got it,” Sam is pulling their duffel bags out of the trunk of the Impala, not waiting for Dean to help or even come close.
20- Castiel is a bad angel.
21- Sam peered through the window of the dingy motel room, staring as roiling clouds slowly obscured the moon, plunging the parking lot into shadows, flickering orange in the light from the vacancy sign.
22- There's nothing on television except for Christmas specials.
23- “Cas! Castiel! We need some help over here!”
24- Sam is sulking.
25- “Sam, any day now!”
Patterns? I apparently like short, declarative sentences. Sometimes I change it up by starting with dialogue, and occasionally I add in some description about the weather or the time of day. I write primarily in the present tense, which is something I never did before writing fanfic.
embroiderama: a passage less than 500 words (paragraph/excerpt/very short fic/whatever) from any story I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.2- From
sinnerforhire: First line of last 25 fics you wrote and try to find a pattern.This one made me laugh, because I have exactly 27 fics written/in the works. A few weeks ago I wouldn't even have been able to do the meme in its entirety.
1- Lisa feels as though she's failing some subtle test which she never signed up to take.
2- A barista's work is never done, but sometimes there are slow days, and that's the day he comes in, complete with laptop and kicked-puppy expression.
3- This never happened...
4- A certain degree of separation was to be expected when it came to the Winchesters.
5- They stop in Toledo a couple of hours before sunset, and Dean shoves his hands in his pockets, fingerless gloves useless against the cold.
6- There are only a handful of people who have Bobby Singer's cell phone number.
7- Dean finds Sam sitting cross-legged on the floor of their motel room, clad in jeans and a soft, faded grey t-shirt, bare feet tucked under his knees.
8- Getting jumped by regular humans is bad enough, even if those humans are seasoned hunters.
9- After twenty years of dealing with it on and off, it's not a big deal anymore.
10- In her everyday life, Lindsey isn't much of a hand-wringer.
11- Dean's not exactly sure how he and Sam have ended up here, but he's learned to roll with the punches after fifteen or so years of being on the job.
12- “You going to eat that or keep turning it into a valuable work of abstract art?” Dean waggles his fork in the general direction of Sam's plate.
13- Sam is getting really tired of waking up in pain, alone and in the dark.
14- He's blind.
15- Sam hasn't screamed in days.
16- There is water dripping slowly onto the Devil's Trap, and Dean doesn't care.
17- Sam is sick to death of angels.
18- The first thing that Dean ever steals is a sandwich.
19- “I got it,” Sam is pulling their duffel bags out of the trunk of the Impala, not waiting for Dean to help or even come close.
20- Castiel is a bad angel.
21- Sam peered through the window of the dingy motel room, staring as roiling clouds slowly obscured the moon, plunging the parking lot into shadows, flickering orange in the light from the vacancy sign.
22- There's nothing on television except for Christmas specials.
23- “Cas! Castiel! We need some help over here!”
24- Sam is sulking.
25- “Sam, any day now!”
Patterns? I apparently like short, declarative sentences. Sometimes I change it up by starting with dialogue, and occasionally I add in some description about the weather or the time of day. I write primarily in the present tense, which is something I never did before writing fanfic.
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Sammy is waiting on the step outside the shop, right where Dean left him. There's a hole in the toe of his left sneaker, and he's whiling away the time by wriggling his big toe through it, in and out. With a sigh Dean realizes he's going to have to do more laundry: Sam's socks are filthy. He grabs Sam by one grubby hand.
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This was my attempt at getting into wee!Dean's head. He's about eight years old here, small enough to still get cooed over by women, old enough to know he can use it to his advantage. He's learning all the mannerisms that will be second nature by the time the show starts: the cocky swagger, the charming smile, the casual larceny. Right now, though, he has to talk himself through it. The goal was to show just how nervous he is, but I'm not sure I succeeded entirely.
The Winchesters, as someone else put it, are a classic example of downward mobility after a tragedy in their lives. Most people don't have their mothers killed by a demon, but a lot of families lose their homes and their livelihoods after a fire or a death or both. So I tried to convey that in a few sentences here: the oversized hoodie, the fact that they shop at goodwill (and Dean's embarrassment about his clothing not fitting right), the hole in Sammy's shoes.
Also, when I was a little kid about Sammy's age I used to poke my toes in and out of holes in my socks and/or shoes when they were there. It was fascinating. So I included it here for kicks.
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