10k in and you've only just discovered your plot I'm 4k in and know where I am, what i have to do, how i have to get there, the major problem is getting the by the end of march within a reasonable wordcount (ie 20k not 200k)
i have to have a vague idea of what i'm doing before i start or i get all tangled up althoguh one of the few pieces of advice i took from my creative writing lessons (who set me back YEARS! i tell ya) was that your first sentence should tell you everything you need to know about setting, pace and your protagonist for example "Dean doesn’t know why he was plucked from Hell, but the little things every day remind him how grateful he is. " however it means i spend three weeks on the first line and have to rush out the rest of the story to hit deadline
why ever not? the last one i wrote flipped back and forth over the course of a couple of months focussing mostly on one day by the end of it i didn't know which way was up
sometimes research comes to the rescue when i was doing my dissertation i had to write the accursed historical novel, I chose ludwig of bavaria (he was a dude) and he took his lover to paris and i couldn't figure out why, it wasn't in any of the books and believe me I looked, 2 mins on wiki it was a great exhibition year, and it was in paris, so i got to write a scene at the great exhiibition and got extra kudos for my research i love you wiki
this one, unlike 3rd bar, is very localised, it takes place in one town, mostly in one house - the Carlsen's house at lake Manitoc from ep 3 actually (not that it matters i like to keep things in house) so it gets much neater, but the point is the character losing himself in his own head - so that's a different thing altogether i don't know how much we're allowed to discuss the story, but if you want to pm me I'll happily tell you all about it
edit: just got an idea for a crack!fic, lucifer summons cthulhu to help him overcome the humans cthulhu just keeps sucking on his head and Dean poins, laughs and goes "it's davy jones" much to no one's amusement as Castiel points out that he is not the diminutive lead singer of the monkees he is one of the ancient gods from the dark places.....
I'm 4k in and know where I am, what i have to do, how i have to get there, the major problem is getting the by the end of march within a reasonable wordcount (ie 20k not 200k)
i have to have a vague idea of what i'm doing before i start or i get all tangled up
althoguh one of the few pieces of advice i took from my creative writing lessons (who set me back YEARS! i tell ya) was that your first sentence should tell you everything you need to know about setting, pace and your protagonist
for example "Dean doesn’t know why he was plucked from Hell, but the little things every day remind him how grateful he is. "
however it means i spend three weeks on the first line and have to rush out the rest of the story to hit deadline
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the last one i wrote flipped back and forth over the course of a couple of months focussing mostly on one day
by the end of it i didn't know which way was up
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when i was doing my dissertation i had to write the accursed historical novel, I chose ludwig of bavaria (he was a dude) and he took his lover to paris and i couldn't figure out why, it wasn't in any of the books and believe me I looked, 2 mins on wiki it was a great exhibition year, and it was in paris, so i got to write a scene at the great exhiibition and got extra kudos for my research
i love you wiki
this one, unlike 3rd bar, is very localised, it takes place in one town, mostly in one house - the Carlsen's house at lake Manitoc from ep 3 actually (not that it matters i like to keep things in house) so it gets much neater, but the point is the character losing himself in his own head - so that's a different thing altogether
i don't know how much we're allowed to discuss the story, but if you want to pm me I'll happily tell you all about it
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Is your fic going to be a Dean/Castiel one? *curious*
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well sort of, but yeah
i don't do wincest, you know that
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just got an idea for a crack!fic, lucifer summons cthulhu to help him overcome the humans
cthulhu just keeps sucking on his head and Dean poins, laughs and goes "it's davy jones" much to no one's amusement as Castiel points out that he is not the diminutive lead singer of the monkees he is one of the ancient gods from the dark places.....
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