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

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited to have people on my friends' list who are doing spn_summergen that I can squee and commiserate with!

Before I signed up, I made a spreadsheet of the 50 or so prompters who had signed up before me (and then added all the ones after me), and gave them each a letter score A thru F: A if I should be able to handle one of their prompts, and an F if I was immobilized by terror at the thought of getting that person's prompts, with varying scores in between.

The good news is, I got one of my A's! The bad news is, it's someone whose writing I really admire, so I feel like I can't possibly live up to her expectations.

But still - an A! It could have been so much worse! I can do this. I just have to keep telling myself that!

And I'm so looking forward to whatever YOU write!

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Hurray!

I didn't do anything nearly as OCD as you did, but I glanced at the prompts and some of them terrified me forever. I missed the comment with the prompts I got, but I'm confident I can come up with something suitable. :)

I'm so glad you got prompts you liked!