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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?