raloria

Thank you all for voting in my poll about re-posting this. The response was overwhelming & so encouraging!
I've never been much of a fanfic writer, in fact in most cases I despise writing. But in the early years of the show it really inspired my Muse (who was truly obsessed w/Jensen - duh!) to write. A lot of the times these stories just spilled out of me within minutes to an hour or so.

( Revisiting an old fanfic of mine... )

The other day I was looking through some papers and found a print-out of one of my WIP fics from years ago with my notes scribbled all over it.

Surprise! Yes, I write fanfic.
Occasionally.

( He’d give a heavy sigh, maybe roll his eyes, but Sam always gave in. )

Sad to see 2 more of my Flisters leaving LJ today. I'm afraid this place will be a ghost town soon, with only me and a handful of others keeping the SPN community going. :(

Thought I'd list where I am online for those who want to follow me now that a new season of SPN is nearly upon us.

My LJ Communities:
spn_ontheset // spn_locations // positively_spn

My backup journals (used only when LJ goes down any length of time):
Dreamwidth: http://raloria.dreamwidth.org/
Insanejournal: http://raloria.insanejournal.com/

Tumblr: http://roadtoshambala.tumblr.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Valerie613
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FanFiction.net: http://www.fanfiction.net/~raloria
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/raloria9173
Flickr (This is a new account, btw. I'm adding all my best photos here, including my VanCon pics): http://flic.kr/ps/2tU29y

If you'd like me to follow you at any of these places, please feel free to leave the links to them in comments. :)

Last week my Crazy Muse got it into her head to work on this WIP fic. A sudden bit of inspiration when I went to bed and she was off! LOL

Anyway, thanks to wynefred and judithyaffa for their invaluable help on this one and for being awesome betas.

This is super sad, I gotta warn ya. It's a death fic. Have some kleenex ready. ;)

( Call it a hunter’s intuition, but there are some things you just feel with your gut. Like when you’re about to be ambushed and there’s no way out. )

Been reading through some old SPN fanfics that I've got printed out and found one that's going straight into the recycle bin.

I sometimes wonder how much people know the show before they start writing these things? The Impala is not a manual transmission. You ever seen Dean shifting gears all the time while driving? Nope, 'cause it's an automatic. And the boys don't stay in hotels. They don't have to use a key card to get into any room. The places they stay at are old, run down, and use old fashioned keys in the door locks.

*sigh*

On top of that the characterizations were off a bit. Sam telling Dean to "Shut the cake-hole, that's an order"? Uh, I don't think so. The other way around I would buy, but not coming from Sam. I don't care how out of it he is after "Mystery Spot".

I couldn't even finish reading the thing by this point. I'm done. Out it goes.

Sorry, just had to rant a bit there.

Um, I literally just wrote this in about 15 min. When My Crazy Muse gets an idea I've gotta go with it. :P

( Dean remembered the last time he and Sam had sat like this... )

Yeah, I took a look and signed up for 6 prompts! o_O
I gotta be out of my mind, but there were so many good ideas I had to jump on some of them.

I'm already busy and I've got my own fics I'm in various stages of writing, but this looked fun and I'm already getting good ideas.
C'mon Crazy Muse, let's go! :D

The idea for this fic came to me last week and I scribbled down the beginnings of it, finishing it up late last night. Wanted to get it posted before this week's new eppy, so here it is...such as it is. Not one of my greatest works, but I liked the idea. Still not sure about the ending, but the time crunch is on.

Now I can get back to that other fic I'm currently working on. ;)

( Dean in 'Dead In The Water': Oh, I used to love these things. )

Tried to post this last night, but my internet went out on me.

Been reading a lot of SPN fanfic lately. (Ok, honestly, when don't I?) :P

Pardon me while I rant a bit...

* One fanfic, which was awesome and angsty & full of the hurt/comfort that I love so much...left me empty when the ending fell totally flat. I wanted a resolution and there wasn't any. No nice, "this feels like an ending" moment. A final scene with Dean and Cas (who was barely in the fic to begin with) and "The End". Wha???? o_O

* Great hurt/comfort author. Love her stuff, but is it possible for her to finish a fic before she starts a new one? I don't know how many of her stories have been left in limbo. Many of them are really very good, but they've been left unfinished for a couple of years now. I highly doubt she'll ever return to them.

* Another author...well I can say they tried. One thing that will turn me off a fic is if the characterization of the boys is off. Dean sounded more like a despicable younger Bobby. He was so obnoxious I didn't finish reading the 2 fics I'd printed out. And Sam, who was better represented, seemed to shout nearly all his dialog. There were exclamation points at the end of nearly every line of his. There was also too much of him calling Dean "bro". Once or twice is fine, but you can tell from the show that they don't use it that much.

And while I'm ranting...a few fanfic pet-peeves:

:: Dean calling Sam "Samantha". Ick. Please...don't.
:: Anyone calling Dean "Deano". Again...just don't.
:: Mixing up breath (as in "To take a breath") with breathe (as in "I wanted to breathe in some fresh air.").
:: Overuse of phrases such as "let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding" and "sadness (or pain, heat, or whatever) coming off of him in waves". Ugh. If I had a dollar for every time I've read these in fanfics I'd be rich by now. That 2nd one shows up in practically every single story I read. No joke.
:: WIP that are obviously abandoned.
:: Using hotel instead of motel. Hotels are fancy and expensive. Motels are on the lower end of the lodgings chain.