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[erda]

I wish I could find a discussion about the recent podcast about fan entitlement so I could lurk on it while contributing nothing, as is my way. I know there are people out there with all sorts of interesting things to say about it, I just have to find them.

My spn_j2_xmas story is getting longer and longer, and it seems like the more I write the farther it gets from the story I think my person wanted to read. It's freaking me out. I hate disappointing people.

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[minniemax.livejournal.com]

Heh! I love the title of your journal *g*

[keefaq.livejournal.com]

That title really sums up my life, both the good and the bad parts.

[zelempa.livejournal.com]

I ALWAYS feel that way about my yule/request fics. In my experience, the process is:

read prompt -> come up with rough idea based on prompt -> write some scenes -> write more scenes based on those scenes -> identify new common thread or theme in those scenes -> rework story based on new idea -> feel momentary sense of accomplishment -> reread prompt -> weep -> squint at story -> rewrite from the beginning OR submit anyway.

Possibly if I were the kind of person who planned things out ahead of time, and wrote outlines and things, I would not have this problem, but I am not that person!

[keefaq.livejournal.com]

There's no way I'm going to be able to rewrite this thing. I'll be lucky to get it done in time as is. I think this is my fault for not being more specific about what I can or can't write, but people always come up with things I hadn't thought of, ad that fill me with panic. I guess I'll just have to carry on, with a whole bunch of whining and whimpering along the way.