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caffienekitty) wrote2007-01-12 08:30 pm
caffienekitty) wrote2007-01-12 08:30 pm
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Asking a question, and whining and blithering.
Anyone know of a good online source for translating English to reasonably grammatically correct Latin? Or a Latin parsing cheat sheet I can hammer the machine-translations into shape with?
I've been writing two huge things (at least I think they're huge, compared to what I usually write) since last April. The end of the second one has been stomping my brainstem to mush ever since, demanding to be written, as well as a middle scene in the second one. It's landed on my brain again today, demanding accurate Latin phrases. *eyeroll*
The problem is, the first story needs to be written first... technically. The first sets up the very minor AU required for the second story. For the first story I have an opening scene that's already written and posted as a standalone snippet, an over-wrought secondary opening section, a vague hand-waving transition, one crystal clear short scene, more vague hand-waving of transition, two possible directions to go, both of which are meh, and one is just an overly baroque set-up for being mean to Cassie and emo-whumping Dean when he's down. Some more vague hand-waving, and a kind of tiny final scene-ish thing.
Then the second has a large load of hand-waving at the start, a bunch of vague crap that's not even hand-waving in the early middle, one of the scenes that's beating the crap out of my brain but that I'm having to end with a deus ex machina because I'm uncertain as to how one of the characters would react to a specific event, a scene that should be utterly crystal but isn't because it's feeling contrived and improbable all of a sudden, then a whole tonne and a half of hand-waving, a total vacuum where a transition would go, and then the end of the second story which is beating my brain to a bloody mushy mass and won't shut up long enough for me to find the rest of these stories, and the final scene makes no sense without the story that leads up to it that's in my head but won't come out. Since. April. I swear I'm going to go literally insane from this.
Of course there's also the *counts* sixteen other fics and ficlets I've got started and am fiddling with as they start pounding on my brain for attention. And new ones keep popping up, like the extremely stupid thing that crept into my brain during work today about Ash, fer cripes sake. Ash! I don't want Ash in my brain, I think he's icky! Arg! Overtop of that there's this annoying demon named Life that wants so much of my attention every day, and I barely have time to do things like laundry and house-cleaning, never mind write. So, my house is a mess and I write instead because I can't not write.
Really, what I need is, like, a month off work with absolutely nothing to do but write, to get these two big things out. Chance of that happening: Zero minus infinity. The funny thing is, even though the stories are AU, Season 2 is catching up with the second story in odd and freaky ways, (from the angle I see it, anyway) so now I feel pressure to write it before any other new stuff that might be coming in season 2 catches up with it.
I've never written fanfic before Supernatural. Is this a common fanfic writer thing, the insistent half-formed mutant plot-bunnies that take over your brain and won't let go so you can get to the point you can write them down in a sensible fashion? Or am I utterly insane?
Yeesh. Anyway, that's enough blithering from me for one night. I'm crazy, right?
I've been writing two huge things (at least I think they're huge, compared to what I usually write) since last April. The end of the second one has been stomping my brainstem to mush ever since, demanding to be written, as well as a middle scene in the second one. It's landed on my brain again today, demanding accurate Latin phrases. *eyeroll*
The problem is, the first story needs to be written first... technically. The first sets up the very minor AU required for the second story. For the first story I have an opening scene that's already written and posted as a standalone snippet, an over-wrought secondary opening section, a vague hand-waving transition, one crystal clear short scene, more vague hand-waving of transition, two possible directions to go, both of which are meh, and one is just an overly baroque set-up for being mean to Cassie and emo-whumping Dean when he's down. Some more vague hand-waving, and a kind of tiny final scene-ish thing.
Then the second has a large load of hand-waving at the start, a bunch of vague crap that's not even hand-waving in the early middle, one of the scenes that's beating the crap out of my brain but that I'm having to end with a deus ex machina because I'm uncertain as to how one of the characters would react to a specific event, a scene that should be utterly crystal but isn't because it's feeling contrived and improbable all of a sudden, then a whole tonne and a half of hand-waving, a total vacuum where a transition would go, and then the end of the second story which is beating my brain to a bloody mushy mass and won't shut up long enough for me to find the rest of these stories, and the final scene makes no sense without the story that leads up to it that's in my head but won't come out. Since. April. I swear I'm going to go literally insane from this.
Of course there's also the *counts* sixteen other fics and ficlets I've got started and am fiddling with as they start pounding on my brain for attention. And new ones keep popping up, like the extremely stupid thing that crept into my brain during work today about Ash, fer cripes sake. Ash! I don't want Ash in my brain, I think he's icky! Arg! Overtop of that there's this annoying demon named Life that wants so much of my attention every day, and I barely have time to do things like laundry and house-cleaning, never mind write. So, my house is a mess and I write instead because I can't not write.
Really, what I need is, like, a month off work with absolutely nothing to do but write, to get these two big things out. Chance of that happening: Zero minus infinity. The funny thing is, even though the stories are AU, Season 2 is catching up with the second story in odd and freaky ways, (from the angle I see it, anyway) so now I feel pressure to write it before any other new stuff that might be coming in season 2 catches up with it.
I've never written fanfic before Supernatural. Is this a common fanfic writer thing, the insistent half-formed mutant plot-bunnies that take over your brain and won't let go so you can get to the point you can write them down in a sensible fashion? Or am I utterly insane?
Yeesh. Anyway, that's enough blithering from me for one night. I'm crazy, right?
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I've never written fanfic before Supernatural. Is this a common fanfic writer thing, the insistent half-formed mutant plot-bunnies that take over your brain and won't let go so you can get to the point you can write them down in a sensible fashion? Or am I utterly insane?
I've definitly been the victim of plot-bunnies that overrun my brain and then fight me when I try to get them out. But it's never lasted so long for me. And I *totally* understand the pressing need to want to get stuff written before the show does something to screw it all up, or beat me to the punch. Been there, dude...you are not alone.
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One thing that used to be a stumbling block was that I fealt like I was being too mean to the guys, but then Season 2 started and Kripke re-set the bar for meanness. :-)
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No, you are not insane and that is me in a nutshell as well. In fact, my email handle on gmail is “evilplotbunny”, because they are, in fact, ALL evil, mutant creatures of… of… evil, but I usually really like my bunnies and so I end up feeding them carrots and cookies and playing with them at most inappropriate times **coughworkcough** because they won’t leave me alone. But I’m not a good writer (though that doesn’t stop me writing because well, plot bunnies are rather insistent and bossy too) so that might be my main problem. :-D
As for the Latin, I did have a link I used back when the sides for “In My Time of Dying” came out (yep, sorry, I’m a SpoilerHo) to translate the binding/summoning ritual John used to English, but the link is on my work computer and I can’t remember if it went from English to Latin or not so not much help there either, sorry.
But you are really, really not alone on the Evil Plot Bunny from Hell thing, I have two longish WIPs, and about eight shorter things going in four different fandoms (SPN, SGA, Torchwood and VM), in addition to all the drabbles that keep assaulting me.
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I keep getting bunnied at work too. I used to just keep a scratch pad and write things down on that, but I was going through paper at a global-warming-causing rate and switched to keeping a Notepad file open to babble into, then e-mail it to myself at the end of the day and delete it off the work computer. Right now I've got 652 KB of text files waiting to be organized and winnowed out, which doesn't include already used stuff. Arg. Of course not all of that is bunnies, there's general show blithering too, but still, it's ludicrous :-D
Torchwood! Yay! I've got a friend that *koff* acquires the series somehow *koff* and we all get together and watch them as they are available about once a month. I've seen up to "They Keep Killing Suzie". Cool series, and I keep seeing echoes of Supernatural in it. I giggled inappropriately all through "Countrycide" and my friends all looked at me like I was some kind of sick freak. Which... well... heh.
I haven't been bunnied for Torchwood, though, or Doctor Who. Not sure why, really, except Supernatural totally owns me, and I'm okay with that. Supernatural's gotten me to be more creatively active than I've ever been. It hasn't even been a year since I really got into it and I've already written more than I have in any single year at college. :-)
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Heh. I used to do that too with note pads (and for some reason I really like writing longhand, but it’s just not an efficient way to go) and yeah, definitely not just bunnies, but show ramblings too… but now I have a handy, dandy flash drive that I keep all that stuff on and it’s very easy to transport back and forth to work. Now if I could just figure a way to get stuff down when it hits me in the shower or driving home, I’ll be set. ;-D
I enjoyed Torchwood a lot. I am not blind to it’s issues or problems, but I enjoyed it a great deal and I have read enough interviews and discussions about the show that I think there is much hope that a lot of the issues that existed for series 1, will be addressed in series 2. And yeah, I actually love the similarities to Supernatural. ;-) And I was probably one of the few people I know who loved “Countrycide”. I was very much into the Ninth Doctor Who (where Jack was introduced), but wasn’t too keen on Ten, but I am spending this weekend with a friend who is a Ten fan and we watched the whole series (S2). I still don’t like Ten as much as she does, but I do like him quite a bit better now.
And I really do love getting ‘off text’ ideas about the shows, for me it actually makes them more fun to watch if I am so engaged that it brings out the cute, fluffy bunnies (with mutant fangs and jagged, razor sharp claws). And I figure the more the merrier. ;-D