why is it not Thursday night yet?

[tommygirl]

You guys, I am the most sucktastic of the sucktastic types lately when it comes to birthdays.

Happy Belated Birthday to: wanderlustlover, carrielh, halcyon_shift, iykwim, sinnerforhire, txtequilanights, keepaofthecheez!

I hope you guys had fabulous days! I hope you were pampered and spoiled and many other things! You each are fabulous and I'm grateful that lj has brought each of you into my life, even if I'm terrible with birthdays!

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So last night I was talking to one of my friends from a writing workshop about the book, The Book Thief, and how I really liked the choice of narrator and the way the book was written where the reader knew all these things that were *going* to happen, but it slowly made more sense within the context of the protagonist experiencing these moments we already knew about.

Then we were talking about fanfiction and I was thinking that sort of style and the narrator choice would totally work for a Supernatural story. A look at Dean Winchester's life through the eyes of death, where the reader is given all this information up front, but it's not really until Dean experiences it that the full impact hits.

I'm just not sure I'm talented enough to pull something like that off. That's not me looking for praise, it just is what it is. I know my own weaknesses and strengths...but it would be an interesting challenge.

Anyway, it got me to wondering...are there any styles/fiction types that you want to try, but aren't sure you're up to?

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Let's do some pimpage:

-polyfandomrecs has been updated with recs from Steph. I have a bunch to do myself, hopefully this evening.

-spn_harlequin for Supernatural fandom

-spn_heraea - Supernatural Schmoop Vs. Angst Challenge, sign-ups until May 26th

-spnhugathon - Supernatural Hug-a-Thon for writing drabbles, fics, novels that have Sam and Dean HUGGING. Stories for the challenge due May 31st. Come on. Give us some happy hugging fic!

-poorboyshuffle - THE CCR/CASH John Winchester Challenge

-spn_longfic - For Supernatural (+RPS) long fic.

-aelora is running a Heroes friending meme

-Eurekathon Gen Challenge, Eureka, sign-ups until May 20th

-The Off Season FNL Hiatus Challenge, Friday Night Lights, sign-ups until May 18th

-The Criminals Do It Illegally Ficathon, various fandoms, claim prompts until May 22nd

-Master List of Fic from the Kink & Cliche challenge is up.

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Alrighty, I'm going to do my daily goal of writing and then I'm hoping to read some fic and such this afternoon/evening. Here's to hoping.

Ciao.

Comments

[eboniorchid.livejournal.com]

The writing style question is interesting, because I'd say that I'm not good at writing Genfic that isn't a character study fic and I've never been particularly good at writing those stories that are a build up of snippets/glimpses from the timeline (moveablehistory does this beautifully).

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm much better with character-based type stories, where that moves the story more than plot...mostly because I tend to hear the character and go from there rather than having a plot to start from.

[roguewords.livejournal.com]

OOh! That was such an interesting book.

I want it.

*has nothing of actual value to add*

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

It really was a great book. And it just worked so well.

[iykwim.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the birthday wishes! My day was fantastic! :)

[storydivagirl.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome, darling!

::hugs::