Meme: Fic cutting room floor

[caffienekitty]

*shrug* Maybe it'll scare the bunnies into cooperating.

Snagged from damn near everyone:

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

(This post may disappear if I chicken out)

Comments

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

The one with the mac'n'cheese from heaven. That was the first fic of yours I read and I still adore it.

[caffienekitty]

Product Misplacement, hunh?

I did a scary amount of research into periodic geyser locations in the US and the marketing differences of the Kraft company between the US and Canada to make sure there weren't any Canada-centric terms, like Kraft Dinner, and KD. Also, I dithered for days over whether Dean would actually eat the stuff or just pretend to eat it and fake Sam out, but in the end, it's Dean, it's early season 3. He eats it.

[anniehow.livejournal.com]

Oooh! The DrWho/SPN crossover!

[caffienekitty]

Heh, Between a Quantum Rock and a Hard Place"

Well, there's a lot of stuff that hasn't gone in it yet, but will. The word count on the stuff yet to be posted so far is approximately 16,000 words. This will likely at least triple before it's done. This does not include the outlining material or any non-incorporated research notes. The size of the folder with all the Quantum Rock files in it on my hard drive is 14 meg, mostly in text files.

I can safely say without spoiler that research on this fic so far has taught me far, far more about American history, American political structure, quantum physics and causality (as well as several more specific things I'm not mentioning because they're spoilers) than any school ever has.

[tigriswolf]

"The Sticking Place"

[caffienekitty]

The Sticking Place was flat-out coping fic. Trying to find a basis for hope to get through the hiatus. The only things that didn't go into it went into the continuation, "Unstuck."

Something no one knows about it was that at the same time, I was trying to write a cracky episode tag for 3.16, which is 75% done and a lot longer than this, but that stalled because it stopped being silly, and I needed to write either hope or silliness. So I wrote "Sticking Place" instead to try for hope.

Evil

[(Anonymous)]

So you are terribly evil making me chose, you know that? So I will be pathetic and say it is a tie:P Between Unstuck and Dean's Eye View--what can I say, tortured heroes and the darker places of the human soul just...well..I love it, and you do it so well I usually end up crying. So yes, the is my one cent.

Hugs
Sharon

Re: Evil

[caffienekitty]

tortured heroes and the darker places of the human soul just...well..I love it, and you do it so well I usually end up crying.

...seriously? O.o Wow. Thanks.

Actually, the two stories are related, so you get both.

Unstuck and Dean's Eye View kind of fed off of and into each other. Unstuck, the first parts of it at least is the continuation of "Sticking Place" I had wanted to write, but I couldn't write it until I knew what happened in canon. "Dean's Eye View" I started writing the individual scene transpositions and then realized that I needed to know what had happened in Hell before I could finish it. But I couldn't write Unstuck without knowing what was happening in canon, so that combination totally blocked me until we got the reveal in 4.10, and then it wasn't a case of, "oh now I have the answer I can work on "Unstuck"" it was a case of 'holy crap what???' because I had truly forgotten that Kripke is a bastard. So, writing "Unstuck" became my way of processing that revealation into my personal canon. Then once I got Unstuck finished, I went through and finished "Dean's Eye View", trying to seed in images of Dean's memories of Hell becoming unrepressable.

For Unstuck, I debated including a scene with Ruby, but really, she was only in hell for about a week earth time, if that, and I figured she would be busy scrambling to save her own ass, or getting her new instructions from her boss, or both, so that didn't get put in.

For Dean's Eye View... Everything and the kitchen sink went into this one. Every time I turned around, there was another bit of scene jumping around. I was originally trying for a more detailed perspective from Dean when he saw the eyeflash at the end from Sam, but where Dean was mentally at the end, trying to stuff all his emotional loose and frayed ends back in, the reaction given in the episode carried that clearly without a need for any greater internal perspective, because he's denying it to himself as well as Sam.

[sandrinnad.livejournal.com]

Boys 'n Berry Jam

(I just re-read it and it is so.... I love it, right down to the title ;) )

[caffienekitty]

Boys 'n Berry Jam is kind of comfort fic for me. If I'm having a show angst overload, I'll come back and re-read it.

What hasn't gone into it yet is everything for the prequel I mentioned in the A/N. Which is in amongst all the masses of other bunnies in the corral, and hops every so often, but it has a lot of competition.

When I was writing it originally, it had a different ending, but it wasn't sitting right with me. It did not serve the characters of Dean or John well, and it was out of tone with the rest of the story. I wanted to keep this warm, summery, and a little bittersweet, because it is Winchesters after all, so I completely pitched the last three hundred original words of ending and went for this ending instead.