Summer writing projects, now extended into the fall!
This is mostly for my own purposes. I have a TON of fic projects that are either sitting on the back burner or that aren't quite in the works yet (summergen, another BigBang God help me, all sorts of things).
So I'm making a list (behind a cut tag) of the ideas and projects I want to tackle this summer, split between actual commitments (for challenges and the like), current WIPs and fics I've started but haven't finished, and Really Cool Ideas™ that I haven't gotten around to yet.
For the record, I'm participating in deancasbigbang, and, like before, there will be no filter. I won't be posting the details, but expect flailing. I think the story will end up being shorter than my first BigBang, if only to preserve my sanity.
Challenges & fic exchanges:
1- spn_solstice : Rough draft due June 30th. Finished draft due August 21st.
2- spn_j2_bigbang: Posting date of July 9th.
3- spn_summergen: Due July 31st.
4- castielfest: Due August 9th. With the beta now.
5- castielfest pinch-hit. Also due August 9th. Also with the beta.
6- deancasbigbang: Rough draft due August 20th. Currently just over 10,000 words.
7- spn_summergen: 1,000 words minimum. Pinch-hit, due August 20th.
8- summer_sam_love: Episode tag to 2.5 "Simon Said." Due August 23rd.
9- summer_sam_love: Episode tag to 4.20 "The Rapture." Due September 11th. (Yes, I signed up for a second, because I'm a masochist)
10- hc_bingo: Five fics minimum, due by December 31st.
11- schmoop_bingo: Five fics minimum, due by December 31st. One down, four to go.
12- werewolfbigbang: 10,000 words minimum, rough draft due September 25th, finished drafts due October 23rd.
13- kamikazeremix: 1,000 words minimum, due September 27th. The other author imposes the work to be remixed. Yikes!
14- girlsofspn: 1,000 words minimum. Posting is between Nov. 1st and Nov. 30th.
15- amplificathon podbang: the goal is to record a podfic of at least 20,000 words (so about 2 to 2.5 hours) for December 1st.
16- deancastiel: Secret Angels IV fic exchange. 2,000 words minimum, due September 17th.
WIPs & fics that are started but need more work and/or finishing
1- "Roses in December": the current WIP, which is both eating my brain and perplexing me, because I don't really know where it's going. I have an idea, and I have a feeling it's going to take a while to get there. Enjoying the ride, though.
2- "Never Go Home": Yes, the deaf!Dean fic that's been sitting on my hard drive since January. I've decided to rip it apart, and post the flashback as a stand-alone, and then re-work the story that happens during the series premiere. Pre-quel is finished and posted.
3- "Take A Sad Song": The Missouri-centered fic that I haven't touched in a while. It's a one-shot, so once I figure out what I want to do with it, it should work out pretty well. I wrote a different Missouri fic, so "Take A Sad Song" is being benched for now until I decide what I want to do with it, if anything.
4- "This Never Happened": I converted this little 'verse to take up the spn_30snapshots challenge. Maybe I should have put it in the previous section. Oh well.
5- The two crossover casefics I've been toying with. One is with "Lie To Me," the other with "The Dresden Files." Both right now are just a few sentences, enough to let me know they're still around, but no more.
Fic ideas that I plan on getting to this eventually
1- Flagstaff. Yeah, I know, everyone and their cousin has done it, but I kind of want to try anyway.
2- A bit of sick!Dean, in which Sam & Dean go up against Pestilence. Sam, by virtue of being Lucifer's vessel, is immune to Pestilence's charms. Dean? Not so much. Covered in the schmoop meme fic for hoodie_time.
3- The "Ex Crucio" sequel, which I actually started but don't like, and am going to start over.
4- "The Scottish Case Fic": aka the case fic in which Sam and Dean end up investigating a supposedly haunted production of Macbeth. :::ETA::: Now a special project to be cowritten with bellatemple! I'm excited.
5- I'm toying with the idea of another story in the same 'verse as the malaria!Dean fic, maybe from Sam's POV. I kind of like the OC doctor I created, Leonda, and I want to play with her some more. :)
6- Either a quick one-off or maybe a short casefic involving Jerry Bonavista, one of the OCs from Take Me Home. The guy with the little dog named Zevon. I'd kind of like the boys to hook up with him for a while.
7- Maybe a ficlet in the same verse as Blind My Eyes. One-eyed!Sam isn't getting enough love lately.
8- The casefic that's not a casefic that's really about how Dean gets back into hunting and is reunited with Sam. :)
9- This is the one I'm intitling "ratherastory is INSANE": I want, as an experiment, to try and write a tag/coda/whatever to every single SPN episode starting with the pilot and going all the way to 5.22. I don't know if I can pull it off, but I've been thinking about it for at least a month now, and I'm weirdly excited about it. I'm going to try to combine it with spnquotefic, because that comm is awesome and I haven't touched it yet.
Adding to the List
1- A prompt by elsewhere_kels: Dean "had so much potential" in Hell. I imagine he even built up a bit of sway - like new souls arriving heard about how horrible it was to be on Dean's rack.
Where is the fic where, when pushed to the brink with demons, Dean is forced to... throw his weight around a little? For whatever reason, Dean is in a situation where (to save Sam or Cas or something else very important) Dean has to remind the demons of their place? Where is Creepy!BAMF Dean? Who is later all "ohshitohshit" ptsd with flashbacks and needs to be comforted because he feels SO GUILTY for the things he did in Hell but damn, didn't he show the demons who was boss? Wasn't he Alistair's FAVOURITE student?
Basically... Re-Awoken!Hell-Dean with a schmoopy/h/c(/smutty) ending. I haven't found this anywhere, and I've WANTED it since 4x01. Any takers?
2- The Dean-focused schmoopfest at hoodie_time. Yeah, I couldn't resist signing up. Deadline is June 30th. It's comment-fic, how hard can it be? Yeah. Thought so. Done and posted!
3- Sam is kidnapped by faeries as a kid and isn't seen for seven years.
4- Curtain!Fic with blind!Sam. Don't ask, I don't even know.
5- Crowley gives Sam and Dean hellhound puppies as a present. I blame morganoconner for that one.
While I'm at it, I've been meaning to ask a couple of question, dear flist:
1- I am a disorganized flake. Do I owe anybody a fic somewhere? Sometimes I get all excited and promise a fic and then I get distracted by something shiny and I forget to note it down. Please remind me if I do!
2- What's the difference between an episode tag and a coda? Inquiring minds want to know! Because I never know what to call my fics.
So I'm making a list (behind a cut tag) of the ideas and projects I want to tackle this summer, split between actual commitments (for challenges and the like), current WIPs and fics I've started but haven't finished, and Really Cool Ideas™ that I haven't gotten around to yet.
For the record, I'm participating in deancasbigbang, and, like before, there will be no filter. I won't be posting the details, but expect flailing. I think the story will end up being shorter than my first BigBang, if only to preserve my sanity.
Challenges & fic exchanges:
1- spn_solstice : Rough draft due June 30th. Finished draft due August 21st.
2- spn_j2_bigbang: Posting date of July 9th.
3- spn_summergen: Due July 31st.
4- castielfest: Due August 9th. With the beta now.
5- castielfest pinch-hit. Also due August 9th. Also with the beta.
6- deancasbigbang: Rough draft due August 20th. Currently just over 10,000 words.
7- spn_summergen: 1,000 words minimum. Pinch-hit, due August 20th.
8- summer_sam_love: Episode tag to 2.5 "Simon Said." Due August 23rd.
9- summer_sam_love: Episode tag to 4.20 "The Rapture." Due September 11th. (Yes, I signed up for a second, because I'm a masochist)
10- hc_bingo: Five fics minimum, due by December 31st.
11- schmoop_bingo: Five fics minimum, due by December 31st. One down, four to go.
12- werewolfbigbang: 10,000 words minimum, rough draft due September 25th, finished drafts due October 23rd.
13- kamikazeremix: 1,000 words minimum, due September 27th. The other author imposes the work to be remixed. Yikes!
14- girlsofspn: 1,000 words minimum. Posting is between Nov. 1st and Nov. 30th.
15- amplificathon podbang: the goal is to record a podfic of at least 20,000 words (so about 2 to 2.5 hours) for December 1st.
16- deancastiel: Secret Angels IV fic exchange. 2,000 words minimum, due September 17th.
WIPs & fics that are started but need more work and/or finishing
1- "Roses in December": the current WIP, which is both eating my brain and perplexing me, because I don't really know where it's going. I have an idea, and I have a feeling it's going to take a while to get there. Enjoying the ride, though.
2- "Never Go Home": Yes, the deaf!Dean fic that's been sitting on my hard drive since January. I've decided to rip it apart, and post the flashback as a stand-alone, and then re-work the story that happens during the series premiere. Pre-quel is finished and posted.
3- "Take A Sad Song": The Missouri-centered fic that I haven't touched in a while. It's a one-shot, so once I figure out what I want to do with it, it should work out pretty well. I wrote a different Missouri fic, so "Take A Sad Song" is being benched for now until I decide what I want to do with it, if anything.
4- "This Never Happened": I converted this little 'verse to take up the spn_30snapshots challenge. Maybe I should have put it in the previous section. Oh well.
5- The two crossover casefics I've been toying with. One is with "Lie To Me," the other with "The Dresden Files." Both right now are just a few sentences, enough to let me know they're still around, but no more.
Fic ideas that I plan on getting to this eventually
1- Flagstaff. Yeah, I know, everyone and their cousin has done it, but I kind of want to try anyway.
2- A bit of sick!Dean, in which Sam & Dean go up against Pestilence. Sam, by virtue of being Lucifer's vessel, is immune to Pestilence's charms. Dean? Not so much. Covered in the schmoop meme fic for hoodie_time.
3- The "Ex Crucio" sequel, which I actually started but don't like, and am going to start over.
4- "The Scottish Case Fic": aka the case fic in which Sam and Dean end up investigating a supposedly haunted production of Macbeth. :::ETA::: Now a special project to be cowritten with bellatemple! I'm excited.
5- I'm toying with the idea of another story in the same 'verse as the malaria!Dean fic, maybe from Sam's POV. I kind of like the OC doctor I created, Leonda, and I want to play with her some more. :)
6- Either a quick one-off or maybe a short casefic involving Jerry Bonavista, one of the OCs from Take Me Home. The guy with the little dog named Zevon. I'd kind of like the boys to hook up with him for a while.
7- Maybe a ficlet in the same verse as Blind My Eyes. One-eyed!Sam isn't getting enough love lately.
8- The casefic that's not a casefic that's really about how Dean gets back into hunting and is reunited with Sam. :)
9- This is the one I'm intitling "ratherastory is INSANE": I want, as an experiment, to try and write a tag/coda/whatever to every single SPN episode starting with the pilot and going all the way to 5.22. I don't know if I can pull it off, but I've been thinking about it for at least a month now, and I'm weirdly excited about it. I'm going to try to combine it with spnquotefic, because that comm is awesome and I haven't touched it yet.
Adding to the List
1- A prompt by elsewhere_kels: Dean "had so much potential" in Hell. I imagine he even built up a bit of sway - like new souls arriving heard about how horrible it was to be on Dean's rack.
Where is the fic where, when pushed to the brink with demons, Dean is forced to... throw his weight around a little? For whatever reason, Dean is in a situation where (to save Sam or Cas or something else very important) Dean has to remind the demons of their place? Where is Creepy!BAMF Dean? Who is later all "ohshitohshit" ptsd with flashbacks and needs to be comforted because he feels SO GUILTY for the things he did in Hell but damn, didn't he show the demons who was boss? Wasn't he Alistair's FAVOURITE student?
Basically... Re-Awoken!Hell-Dean with a schmoopy/h/c(/smutty) ending. I haven't found this anywhere, and I've WANTED it since 4x01. Any takers?
2- The Dean-focused schmoopfest at hoodie_time. Yeah, I couldn't resist signing up. Deadline is June 30th. It's comment-fic, how hard can it be? Yeah. Thought so. Done and posted!
3- Sam is kidnapped by faeries as a kid and isn't seen for seven years.
4- Curtain!Fic with blind!Sam. Don't ask, I don't even know.
5- Crowley gives Sam and Dean hellhound puppies as a present. I blame morganoconner for that one.
While I'm at it, I've been meaning to ask a couple of question, dear flist:
1- I am a disorganized flake. Do I owe anybody a fic somewhere? Sometimes I get all excited and promise a fic and then I get distracted by something shiny and I forget to note it down. Please remind me if I do!
2- What's the difference between an episode tag and a coda? Inquiring minds want to know! Because I never know what to call my fics.