Writing Epiphanies

[ratherastory]

Apparently being sleep-deprived and in the midst of renovation chaos is good for the imagination.

I think I figured out a couple of scenes that are "missing" from my BigBang. The ending was rushed, and I've been fretting about it ever since I turned in my rough draft. Now, though, I'm pretty sure I know where to fix it, and how to hit the emotional notes I was missing there.

I got my spn_summergen prompts, and I am stupidly excited about them. As it turns out, I am friends with the prompter, and now I am SO NERVOUS about it! Somehow I think it's easier writing for strangers. Gah! Still, I love the prompts, and while they're a little bit outside of my comfort zone I am going to do my very best to do them justice. If I have the time, I may even write more than one, because they're all just that good. I'm going to start with one, though, because I have lots of fic commitments this summer.

Also? pkwench has helped me hash out some plot points and other interesting things for the deancasbigbang I suicidally signed up for this summer. I am planning a wee!Dean fic, just because. Actually, I had the idea way back when, and it wasn't really going anywhere, but pkwench helped me to hammer the idea into something workable, and now I'm excited about that too.

I still need to figure out what I want to write for spn_solstice. Entries are due in a month. I'm thinking of something dante_s_hell said a while back in someone else's LJ entry (I think it was roque_clasique) about someone needing to write an End 'Verse fic with Cas shotgunning marijuana smoke with Dean (to Dean? for Dean? I don't know what the proper preposition is for that particular verb, though I should probably look it up), and I loved the image that conjured up. In fact, part of me is wondering if I can't write that fic while keeping it gen and just using it to show how very screwed up it all is.

Anyway, there is your dose of authorial thinky-thoughts for the day. I should go do some writing now.

Comments

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

I don't know my spn_summergen prompter at all--I don't know it that's better or worse....*g*

The prompt that seems most interesting is the kind of thing that I never, ever, ever write--almost on principle--so I don't know if I'm going to take the plunge with it....But some of the other prompts are very nice and open, so I'm thinking if I let it simmer for a while maybe something will come to me...here's hoping!

Good luck with the writing!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Yeah, all my prompts are stuff that... while I wouldn't say I would *never* write them, it's all stuff that it wouldn't occur to me to write, or that I've never been courageous enough to write yet.

So, we shall see!

Good luck to you too!