News on the fic front (mostly bad).

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So, here's the latest on my epics:

I haven't worked on NCT in I-literally-don't-even-know-how-long. This is... not entirely a shock, given how epically gigantic it really ought to end up (intimidating like whoa, you guys!) and how much making notes has, in the past, had a tendency to ruin my enthusiasm for whatever it is I'm writing. Not to mention that those notes are, um, probably a good 30 Word documents now. Way back, before November aka NaNo, I was trying to concatenate my 10+ pages of notes in three documents into something coherent and shorter, and I more or less managed it, and then NaNo came. And now I have 30 documents and they're completely unorganized and basically incoherent or otherwise I would share just to prove how epic it would be if only I could get anything halfway decent written. Sigh. If anyone is still interested, it could maybe use some cheerleading. Me, I'd love to get it done before s2, but if  I don't manage that, history says it's never going to get done (I mean, just look at my SN "Say Goodbye" vid. Yeeeeah, you can't, because that never happened, either. >_<). So yeah, like I said, cheerleading/encouragement/whatever, if you want to see it even remotely written.

And worse news: SP is clearly becoming the NCT of 2010. While it's.... only asymptotically approaching the sheer amount of notes NCT has (to translate from Nerd, that means getting closer and closer but will never quite reach it XD), it's still got a lot of the same deal going on. A whole tree's (or in NCT's case, forest's) worth of notes, and relatively zero actual fic. Which, on the good side, at least in this case the notes are still getting written -- hooray progress? -- buuut it looks like it's headed down the same horrible drowned-the-muses-in-notes path. And, worse, it was supposed to be ~500 words when I started it (series of five drabbles, same basic format as "War Stories"), and now it's looking like it's trying to be maybe a couple thousand on the original idea, plus a sequel, plus another sequel. (I haven't even written more than a paragraph of the original idea yet, and I'm getting bunnied for sequels, plural. Freaking ridiculous. What. The fuck. Muses. I had to go and read "A Mile Away and Wearing Your Shoes" [best title ever, by the way, and an awesome fic, to boot] and then go to sleep and dream about it [me, weird? why would you say that? ;)] and get all fucking inspired. Goddammit. FML.) So, yeah, in short: This in insane. I need to really start sticking to my general policy of "never write chaptered fics. especially not epics. no, seriously, don't." DDD: Or in other words: This one could use some cheerleading and maybe a sounding-board, too. I can't imagine a second sounding-board would hurt. :)

Sigh. My poor stories. I'm never doing this to myself again (he says, as his muses laugh hysterically and high-five in the background).

But in better news, I finished another Samverse drabble. (You see? Epics and I... really should just stay away from each other for good.) I'll spend Castle's timeslot picking out the best version and finding it a title, and have it posted shortly. So I can actually get something accomplished, at least. 9_9

Comments

[taylor-serenil.livejournal.com]

I want to see the thirty word documents on NCT, pretty please? Incoherency fails to scare me--you helped beta SR, you know I'm not always the most coherent myself.

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I'm so conflicted! I love you so much for asking that I almost want to spare you the complete and total madness that was my NaNo work on NCT. Honestly, you don't know what you're getting yourself into, and should probably be more scared than you are. >_<

However, I recently scanned all ten handwritten pages of SP to send to Zera, so I must still be in a giving and/or desperate mood, because I'll tell you what I'll do. You need them in Rich Text, right? So, when I save them as rtf (which, happily, I have time to do, as it's Spring Break), I'll try and concatenate some of them and maybe make them somewhat easier to follow. I'm not promising much, but there'll at least be fewer different docs to wade through (organizing by date was easier for NaNo, not so much for general use).

And who knows? Maybe looking at all that again, I'll get inspired again (for DB in general, NCT in particular). White Collar SP has taken over my brain recently, god.

And, fair warning: Zera's reaction to those ten pages? "You think too much." Which really about covers it.

[taylor-serenil.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I need rtf. And hey, I am not exactly the picture of sanity myself. (Did I tell you I managed to traumatize both my housemates with the Dean/Carter on separate occasions? Go me! :)).

But anyway, send when you get organized. I'll try to comment intelligently (beyond "hey, sub!Carter would be hot").

Also, I wish the trans!Dean bunny would get carrots. I've been pimping that one out because I find it a really fascinating take on Dean. And yeah, I admit I'd like it to go Carter/Dean, but I'd happily take gen for more of it.

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(Lol, go you! That sounds like a fun story.)

OK, will do. And hopefully it won't be the only productive thing I get done this whole week. *fails*

Gah, so do I! I have a couple versions of a scene involving Carter, and, I dunno, something about it's just not right yet. Sigh. Carter/Dean is looking more possible than I'd thought, at least. And yay, I'm glad you like it; I like it a lot too. It's a shame SP!Neal has evicted all my other muses from my head (not that I don't love him, too!) -- but that bunny was actually what I was thinking re: getting inspired for DB in general. So, we'll see. I'm hopeful.

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So, it's turned out that this is a bigger venture than even I had anticipated (despite the fact that there are actually only 20 documents). My main problem is having three or four that are basically the same thing, in various shortened/more organized forms, so that I don't know which would be the most helpful/useful. I asked Zera her thoughts, and then realized I may as well ask you. *g* So, would you rather be given the most information possible (ideas, thought processes, rationale, etc), or a (ideally more coherent and organized) summary? Or, y'know, both, or a combination of the two, or whatever I throw together? Any preferences? Looks like I'm going to have to fiddle with them a lot more than just c&ping them all into the same document, so I may as well do it right.

[taylor-serenil.livejournal.com]

Send me the full version (ideas, thought processes, rationales, and all). I find seeing what goes into other people's fic intriguing. (And this is me, who has about ten times as much in SR's folder as actually made it into the fic and lord knows how much infodumped on dime and you, so bunches of semi-coherency fail to frighten me :)).