Hackers, Exchanges, Friendships & Memes

[carrie_leigh]

I've had my prompt for the d/g ficexchange for a week and the outlook is good.  I have the first chapter written, and it already looks like it's going to be another monster...15,000 words, maybe?  I'm at 2000 words and I'm 3/4 of the way through the exposition.  I'm actually researching stuff that already exists rather than making crap up, so that'

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[dragonsangel68]

I'm sorry about your friend *hugs* Perhaps they're just having a bad week or something is up with them that is taking their attention and they're not dealing with it as well as they could be?

My d/g ficexchange is going much the same way. It's currently sitting at around 5000 words and not nearly into the meat of the fic *s* I feel another monster coming on ;)

[carrie_leigh]

Well, unfortunately, it all started about 2 weeks ago. I'm at a loss to explain it, evidently, so I think the safest thing for my own sanity is to move past it. Sad, but there it is.

5000! Woo hoo! I can't wait to read it!

[humbuggirl]

Hmm... first Firefly and now Supernatural! It would seem that we have very similar tastes in tv shows, lol. Supernatural is worth watching just for the pretty... aka Jensen Ackles. My friend has promised to get me season two which I haven't had chance to watch yet.

Also, I'm sorry about your friend. I had something very similar happen to me just after Christmas and it isn't nice. Sometimes people are inexplicable.

Good luck with your prompt!

[carrie_leigh]

Dean is the type of guy that I would have tried to fix when I was in college. (Of course with Dean, I'd probably have ended up possessed on a ceiling and engulfed by flames, but anyway...) Plus there's the car and the MUSIC! Love, love, love it!

Yeah, people are weird. I'm kind of done letting it take up space in my thoughts.

Thanks! Are you doing one, too?

[humbuggirl]

No, I decided against it. I was going to sign up but then I remembered that I actually have to pass my degree, lol. Unfortunately, now I keep seeing posts about the progress that people are making and it makes me wish that I had taken the plunge.

[jandjsalmon]

Alright... you caught me. I'm trying to get into your gmail account. I'll quit it. ;)

Okay, so I'm not... but I DO think you're handlingthe friendship thing very well. It is sad to lose a friendship, especially since you weren't aware that it was in trouble... but what you're doing seems right. Perhaps they are having a bad week, or maybe they're just barmy. Who knows, but not getting yourself into a tizzy is the best way to go!

I can't believe you are that far into your exchange fic. You AND drangonsangel. AHGHG. I've had my prompt longer than you both and I have done the research and written out a few moments of dialogue, but that's it. I was even contemplating typing up the last chapter of my WIP BEFORE moving on to the exchange fic. Clearly, I have to sort out my priorities. ;)

[carrie_leigh]

Hey, thanks for not hacking. I appreciate it. ;)

Priorities? I haven't worked on my own stuff in weeks. Do I feel guilty? Um, a little. But the siren call of D/G is pretty strong! You better get crackin', missy!

No. Well, you have a little over a month, but still. *cracks whip*

[numbaby]

"why didn't you force me to do this months ago?"

Um...because I was selfishly keeping the pretty to myself?
I hope this means you'll venture down to the south of the forum and help keep the Dean thread and its fellows alive?

"Dean is the type of guy that I would have tried to fix when I was in college. " *GASP* Why would you want to "fix" a perfectly good bad boy? In that vein, I have to add that I've a ridiculously mary-sue'd SN plotbunny that may get developed someday.

To indulge your love of the metalicar: http://community.livejournal.com/67impala/

[carrie_leigh]

Don't hog the pretty. That's just wrong, wrong, wrong. We share the pretty.

By "fix" I mean become involved in an incredibly unhealthy relationship based on a love of his car and his tape collection. I spit all over the place when Sammy called it "mullet rock."

Want to hear about the ridiculously Mary-Sue'd plotbunny soon.

[carrie_leigh]

24 pages! YAY!
I waffle back and forth on the whole LONG and completed thing versus a 1500 word one shot. I can't seem to tell a story that short. I'm looking forward to reading yours!

I'm not holding my breath, but I guess there's always hope.