I'll be your Gypsy Lane

Because I hate myself or something, I signed up for deancasbigbang. Which I knew was coming up when I finished Crossroads State. And the sensible thing to do, really, would have been to spend the next however-many months and change editing that until it was so perfect you could die. Plus, I would have maybe gotten art of Dean and Cas riding a dinosaur, which I really really want. XD But I knew spending that long with it still-not-technically-done would have made me insane. So here I am all HOW DO I IDEAS.

I COULD wait till the season finishes and see if there's anything I want to do with that, but I'm still super nervous about writing canon, especially long-form like that. And I'm nervous about waiting that long. I'm just nervous in general. I have a thing I started before 7.17 came out or we even knew much about it where there's a very creative (not) amnesia!waiter scenario in Ohio with mean ghosties. But ehhhh. And there's a girl!Dean thing that could easily go on for enough words but it's not very good and would very likely just get worse. Also these things are not really canon.

Or I could do another big ol' AU. But my ideas for one thus far have gone a little something like, "What if it's the 20s and Dean's in love with his valet? OH WAIT," and "OOH what if they visit a bunch of other universes and are together in all of them? OH WAIT" and "French Mistake but in reverse with Jensen and Misha hang on I didn't sign up for RPF" and at some point it degenerates into "uhhh, maybe someone's a photographer. AGAIN," and "HOLY SHIT SUPERSAINTS?!!?" and finally I'm just sitting there drunk and drooling all, "IDK college or sutin pfffff." I did have this one total ridic idea where it's indie coffee shop owner vs. Starbucks GM, and it would be so industry-accurate because The Boy is a WEALTH of information but nobody would GAF about all my meticulous research and probably be pissed at me for slagging off Starbucks. XD

tl;dr I am ridiculous and don't know what to write. *returns to gazing at navel*

Post the first sentence (or three) from every WIP you're currently working on, even if it's very short. Then invite people to ask questions about your WIPs. With any luck, the motivation to take that WIP one step closer to completion will appear as if by magic!

I've seen a few people doing this thing so I figured why not, since I spawn snippety beginnings like some bacteria propagate. These are just the ones that have a snowball's chance of getting finished and exist in generally-recognizable fandoms (i.e. I left out all the weird AU stuff from RP-land that the only giving-a-shit party has already read). One has bloated its way to nearly novel-length but the rest haven't got much to them. There's a couple for SPN, a couple for The Walking Dead, and a couple for The Hour. Two out of six are crossovers, because I'm me. XD ( look at my WIP-ness, hurrr )

Well. Floor's open, I guess. Yay, crickets.

Totally stolen from blackletter, because you know how much I love blathering about ficcing!

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic 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.

All my stuff is on this tag and anything is fair game. C'mon, you know you want to.

0. Mostly, I wanted to show off this icon I made. *points*

1. Writer's block like whoa. I get like one sentence out and get distracted by something shiny. My brain's doing something that goes a little bit like Trek! Jooster! Joostertrek! No, wait! Fireflytrek! TorchJooster! Ianto is Jeeves and they're on the Enterprise and run into Serenity! And what about that thing where Jeeves had a secret wife? Ducky? Ducky who? ARGFARGLEVALETSPACE. Yeah. That's what my head sounds like on the indoors.

2. KINGDOM. Was great. Is great. Is being great. Oh Lyle. *looks at watch* Hey, next week! Get here with new ep plz. When does Peter get a boyfriend? Wishful thinking, I know.

3. Well, it would be a pretty lame list if it only had two things on it.....


Um. Make me write porn. Prompts. Issue them now. Maybe with word count limits.

ETA 6/10: I am exhausted and falling asleep. Ficlettings to continue on the morrow.

Sort of for my own edification, but I guess a few other people might be interested.

So. The List of Shit What's Getting Wrote, more or less in the order it's going to get written.

     *lgbtfest fic to be posted May 13. This goes first 'cause for once I don't want to be up till all hours the night before trying to finish. ( spoilers, I guess? )

And, um, I guess this is where I need a flowchart. ( sparing your flists )

I really would like for there to be an invention that can remove a story from one's head fully-formed and translate it into text.