[Fic] Drive Passenger

[agelade]

Drive Passenger
A Supernatural Story
Rating:  Language
Category: Gen
Word Count: 3.7k
Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester
Episode Tag for 9x12

Sam and Dean have decided to travel together, but they aren't done talking.

Comments

[freya922]

This was just terrific. God, I wish they'd have this Dr. Phil moment! (I'm a trained couple's therapist and I admit to the occasional fantasy about what I'd say to these two if I had them sitting in front of me.) the whole thing about Sam fearing everything is not real ... I hadn't thought of that. So brilliant and so devastating!

[agelade]

Thanks very much! It hit me in the car on the way to work yesterday morning and I just had to write it out. I thought it was gonna be like 500 words and then suddenly it was this thing.

It's funny how we filter things we enjoy through our various modes of expertise. You fantasize about administering therapy (which they totally need, jeez); I fantasize by "acting out" conversations I want them to have (I used to be a stage actor and now dabble in voice acting, which I guess isn't "expertise" but whatever). Like I straight up talk and yell and cry in my car when I'm alone, haha.

Thanks for the comment! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[freya922]

I'm also prone to talking to myself - about everything from work to SPN... Well, a lot about SPN. It sounds like the drama you act out is more...dramatic...than mine, and I bet a bunch of it ends up in your fic!

[agelade]

Hahaha a lot of it does! I "rehearse" a lot of the more important conversations for days before I actually write them out. And if I'm alone and don't mind feeling a little silly, I'll even act out what I am thinking about writing, action wise. You know, without actually breaking anything or killing anyone or whatever. :-D I write everything that way. I find it is so much easier and my work is better when I've been able to get into the character a bit, like with acting. (I wrote this short about a young serial killer pre-actual killing; I didn't sleep for two days. So it's not always a good thing. Heh.)

[freya922]

I find the advent of the bluetooth phone-thingee in your ear can be a lifesaver. Now I can walk down the sidewalk yakking at myself about Supernatural and people think I'm on the phone. *snort*

I can't get away with acting out the scenes, though -- not out on the sidewalk! That is awesome that you do that. *grin* The creative process fascinates me, too - just the whole notion of the muse, of something from outside of us that is demanding to come through us, however imperfectly. People have reported that experience for millennia, and it also ties to Tolkien's notion of 'subcreation.' Like I said. Fascinating.

[agelade]

Oooooh bluetooth. Now THAT'S an idea...

Creation is amazing. The feeling of creative productivity is unlike anything else. Even the sort of ozone feeling of "before creativity" is exhilarating. Wooo now I want to write ALL THE STORIES.