i feel an attack of ficcish crazy coming on....
...i can't remember what i did this weekend besides have a ridiculous fic-related idea.
oh, right, now i remember. saturday i saw fireworks. :D i went with the family unit and we met my cousin, his wife, three of their four kids (the fourth is at camp), and my aunt. town fireworks at the local high school - obviously not as exciting as the boston fireworks, but very nice and a lot of fun. and a much, much smaller crowd. (like half a million people show up to watch the fireworks in boston. it's a big deal.) we heard some of the boston pops concert on the way home, and for reasons that escape me neil diamond (who was the big guest) sang sweet caroline twice. o.O then they played the dropkick murphys (if you know the song, imagine shippin' up to boston arranged for orchestra), which was just as weird as it sounds. kinda fun, but a little disconcerting.
yesterday i managed to shift my ass out of the house before four and had cucumber ice cream for lunch. yum. and friday i got sunshowered on while i was sitting on boston common reading. yeesh. rain. >.< but i got to see dogs and cute boys and a female bagpiper (she was wearing jeans and not a kilt, tho) and a mahoosive line of people waiting to ride the swan boats at the public garden, and when it wasn't raining it was actually a decent day.
and last night i'm driving to my parents' house and in addition to "please god let me get to the gas station before i run out of gas" and "who the hell is covering this song??" i'm seriously contemplating the pros and cons of signing up for spn_j2_bigbang next year. are you laughing at me? i'm laughing at me. but, see, i have an idea. and i think it could easily make a nice j2 au. the fact that i'd be writing rps doesn't bother me, but i am kind of stuck on the fact that i'd have to write 20k+ words of coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end, with actual plot and conflict and resolution. nano2008 is evidence that i can't even do that with 50k words. plus which, it would require research. part of me thinks it's a stupid idea because come on, 20k words of story in a fandom i don't hardly read in? on the other hand, it's an rps au, so i feel much less tied to whatever passes for canon in j2-land. but how much sense does it make to go from never having written rps to suddenly writing a bigbang?
but also, it's probably a good thing i had this revelation now and not, like, six months from now. this way, i can think about it. :D and maybe finish the futurefic i tried to make notes for.
20k words of rps, man. written to a deadline so someone else can make art for it. i'd say i've lost my damn fool mind but i'm not sure anyone else is going to get why.
and seriously, brain, why does every story idea i have require historical research? what's with this wanting to find and read original sources and first-hand accounts and old photos? why can't we write a nice contemporary story that i don't have to read a lot of background for?
oh, right, now i remember. saturday i saw fireworks. :D i went with the family unit and we met my cousin, his wife, three of their four kids (the fourth is at camp), and my aunt. town fireworks at the local high school - obviously not as exciting as the boston fireworks, but very nice and a lot of fun. and a much, much smaller crowd. (like half a million people show up to watch the fireworks in boston. it's a big deal.) we heard some of the boston pops concert on the way home, and for reasons that escape me neil diamond (who was the big guest) sang sweet caroline twice. o.O then they played the dropkick murphys (if you know the song, imagine shippin' up to boston arranged for orchestra), which was just as weird as it sounds. kinda fun, but a little disconcerting.
yesterday i managed to shift my ass out of the house before four and had cucumber ice cream for lunch. yum. and friday i got sunshowered on while i was sitting on boston common reading. yeesh. rain. >.< but i got to see dogs and cute boys and a female bagpiper (she was wearing jeans and not a kilt, tho) and a mahoosive line of people waiting to ride the swan boats at the public garden, and when it wasn't raining it was actually a decent day.
and last night i'm driving to my parents' house and in addition to "please god let me get to the gas station before i run out of gas" and "who the hell is covering this song??" i'm seriously contemplating the pros and cons of signing up for spn_j2_bigbang next year. are you laughing at me? i'm laughing at me. but, see, i have an idea. and i think it could easily make a nice j2 au. the fact that i'd be writing rps doesn't bother me, but i am kind of stuck on the fact that i'd have to write 20k+ words of coherent story with a beginning, middle, and end, with actual plot and conflict and resolution. nano2008 is evidence that i can't even do that with 50k words. plus which, it would require research. part of me thinks it's a stupid idea because come on, 20k words of story in a fandom i don't hardly read in? on the other hand, it's an rps au, so i feel much less tied to whatever passes for canon in j2-land. but how much sense does it make to go from never having written rps to suddenly writing a bigbang?
but also, it's probably a good thing i had this revelation now and not, like, six months from now. this way, i can think about it. :D and maybe finish the futurefic i tried to make notes for.
20k words of rps, man. written to a deadline so someone else can make art for it. i'd say i've lost my damn fool mind but i'm not sure anyone else is going to get why.
and seriously, brain, why does every story idea i have require historical research? what's with this wanting to find and read original sources and first-hand accounts and old photos? why can't we write a nice contemporary story that i don't have to read a lot of background for?