Writing From the Inside

These are my really super dooper long author's notes. For me, they're like a point of record, to talk about what happened or what I thought about while writing this story.

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The kind folks at the Atlantis Big Bang have offered up the opportunity to post a preview of the stories from this year's collection. Here's a link to mine.

http://atlantisbigbang.livejournal.com/28806.html

This year, I am going to Vividcon for the first time! I was going to be with my sweet amothea, but she is busy with school (getting all A's of course), and can't go. We're discussing Escapade for next year, thank goodness, so I don't have to go too long without seeing her. As for Vividcon, I couldn't be MORE excited. I've wanted to go since the day this particular gathering started up, but I was involved with other things, and other fandoms.

I used to vid, back in the day when we all hooked up two VCR's with a snakepile of cords and wires, and I'm still trying to get up the gumption to try digital vidding - I have the software and everything! Except time. : D

So if you're going to be at Vividcon, hello in advance! : D

So, I took the day off from writing. I've been elbows deep in my SGA fanfic, and trying desperately to find a way through it, or over it, or around it. I finally came to the realization that writing a Big Bang for one's first attempt at writing for a fandom is a recipe for....a whole lotta work and not a lot of security. Or fun.


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I'm working on my SPN Big Bang, because it's a long weekend and my posting date is June 6th. I've got some stuff I want to add, a few changes here and there, but I know I'll make it under the deadline. Whether the story is good will be for the reader to decide. But...I am, I have decided, the luckiest big bang writer this year, on account of my artist.

Her online name is kazue7294 and when I found out who she was, I went to look at her lj and her deviant art page, to see what kind of style she had - it's bright and vibrant and PERFECT for this story. i won't spoil the story by giving any details, but I've had such a good time working with her, and have enjoyed her enthusiasm and willingness to listen to my ideas (and my begging for more art than any one person could do)...and then she started sending me samples. Oh my GOD, holy frakking cow. The images are lovely and lush and made with joy and are so so perfect, I wish I could share them now. If she does a big bang next year, any writer will be lucky to get her.

I had a question about Orange Otter Pops - Little Orphan Orange flavor, to be exact. In the past, in my Sparta verse, Sam has been wanting orange otter pops.

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Part Two

Dad didn’t say anything as he looked at Dean, but the muscles in his jaw tightened and he started to glare. At Dean, which felt pretty strange, since Sam was always the one being glared at, always the one at the end of that look that said he’d just failed Dad in too many ways to count.

 

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Title: With the Strength of Lions

Author: lovesrain44

Rating: PG, Gen, violence, angst, hurt, but not a whole lot of comfort

Verse: Sparta Verse

Pairing: None

Word Count: 17,652

Summary: Since it’s been so hot, Dad finally takes Sam and Dean to the river for a little fishing trip. This makes Sam feel a little bit better for not being able to play soccer, but not a whole lot because it’s still the summer from hell. This story is a sequel to The Gauntlet

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Title: Ordinary Day
Author: lovesrain44
Genre/Rating: Gen/G
Word Count: 18,664
Summary: Willie goes about his chores and wonders if this is as good as it gets. And then bad things happen.
A/N: This is a stream of consciousness story, and up to that point that I wrote it, no one had written a first person Willie POV story, so I took it upon myself. This story is a one-off story that takes place in no particular verse, and, as most of my stories do, the events occur before Willie entered the looney bin.

Posted at:

http://lovesrain44.dreamwidth.org/3143.html

(Was too big to cross post.)

Title: The Willie and Barnabas Diversion
Author: lovesrain44
Genre/Rating: Gen/PG
Word Count: 5,539
Fandom: Dark Shadows
Summary: Willie can’t remember why he used to be afraid of his boss. But, once he sees Barnabas attack Adam, it starts to come to him, and no matter how far Willie runs, the memories are going to catch up to him.
A/N: This is one of the few stories I wrote that takes place after Willie gets out of the loonie bin. I thought his character wasn’t as interesting in this weakened state, yet, one very hot August week, this story came to me. Go figure.

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Willie raced up the stairs, all out and breathless, his hands grabbing the next riser as soon as his feet found purchase. At any moment, a large, scarred hand was going to reach for him, he just knew it, grab him and pull him down to the floor and finish what it had started. He slipped a bit on the top stair, his leather soled shoes missing their grip on the carpet, and then he looked back, over his shoulder. Adam had Barnabas in a death grip, and though Julia shrieked and tried to pull him off, Willie knew that she would fail. Adam would kill Barnabas, and then he would turn on Julia, and then he would come looking for Willie.

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