Updates on my exciting life

[verucasalt123]

I'm home and had a spectacular time seeing my family this weekend. Due to the weather, my Saturday evening flight home was cancelled, and instead of flipping out, I decided to just count it as a bonus, an extra day with family I don't get to see very often. The wedding was amazing.

Sunday, the closest airport I could get a flight from was BWI. So, I rented a car, drove 3 hours, got on a plane and came home exhausted. Word to the wise: If you're flying AirTran, cough up the extra $49 for business class. You get your own special security line, you board first, you don't have to pay to check any bags, AND you get free booze on the flight. Totally worth it.

Here are my current writing WIPs:

Evil!Sam challenge: About halfway done. It's the shortest thing I have to do and is proving to be the toughest one to finish for some reason. I haven't written much evil!Sam so I guess that's why.

spn_cinema - I have a rough draft almost done, about 2300 words so far. Lots of work to go on that one.

MPREG big bang - OK, I've never written mpreg OR a bigbang. Plus, this is not my usual fandom (Angel instead of SPN). But so far it's going really really well. I have 11K words finished already, that's just on a first draft, and still have one more chapter plus an epilogue rolling around in my head.

How are my flist buddies? What are you working on now?

Comments

[dante-s-hell.livejournal.com]

What spn_cinema movie are you doing? I did that challenge in the spring and had a blast.

It's awesome that you've gotten so much of your mpregbb done.

Glad you were able to turn a negative into a positive and have fun.

[verucasalt123.livejournal.com]

You're going to think I'm crazy, but I'm doing Friday. And it's a RPF, which I have also never done before. I took out all the serious parts of the movie and concentrated just on the funny stuff, I hope it works out.

[ronny-of-yore.livejournal.com]

Wow, you're keeping busy and I applaud your intent to step outside of your comfort zone and try a hand at writing an MPREG bigbang. I've never written that subject matter either and, truthfully, wouldn't even know where to start, so I think that's awesome of you. (I'm not a huge fan of it, but I don't mind reading it every now and then if its entertaining and well-written.) I'll definitely read yours even though I've never read Angel fanfiction. (I do know the show, though.)

By the way, big bangs are super fun. I'm just finishing up my first one too. Working with my two assigned artists for the stories I've written has been an awesome experience. I can't even tell you. I'm sitting on pins and needles just waiting to see what they come up with in the next few days. Anyway, good luck to you in your own experience. It sounds like you're already trucking along. :D

[verucasalt123.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I can't wait to read your big bangs. I admire your writing so much. Wonder if I should be looking for an artist to work with me on mine...guess I'd better go back and read the rules again.

Though my mpreg story is in the Angel fandom, neither of the two characters involved in the pregnancy are Angel. He's got kind of a supporting role :)

[lavishsqualor.livejournal.com]

So glad you had such a wonderful weekend with family! (Free booze on the flight?! Totally worth it. :P)

Also, yay! Glad to hear the writing's going well! How wonderful. :) Ooo, evil!Sam, I'm excited to see how that comes out. And awesome job on the spn_cinema and bigbang! Go you! \o/

Right now I'm taking a bit of a break from writing, well, not really. But my minibang's off to betas, and it feels like a huge relief. Other than that I'm just slowly plugging away on my spn_meanttobe fic. But I'm not sure it's going to work out. Kinda feeling a little lost with it. Anyways....

Hope your week goes wonderfully, M!

[verucasalt123.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm sure it will be a great week. I've got DragonCon this weekend, which means major stalking of Misha Collins and Mark Sheppard :)

I just finished my evil!Sam story. It will probably get posted next week sometime. Please do let me know what you think of it!!!! Can't wait to read your minibangs!

[lavishsqualor.livejournal.com]

Congrats on finishing the evil!Sam story! :D I will definitely check it out!

And yayyyy for DragonCon! I'm so excited for you - hope it is amaaazing!!!

[verucasalt123.livejournal.com]

I'm having my picture taken with both of them Friday night. Trying to figure out how to not look like a fat suburban soccer mom in the photo. Got a magic wand?

[sakura-no-mi.livejournal.com]

Well hai there, darling. Good to hear your writing is going well. I have total attention span problems right now 'cause work is so busy :( So I'm not working on anything really aside from roleplay fic.

[verucasalt123.livejournal.com]

I've never done roleplay fic!! Sounds fun though.

[sakura-no-mi.livejournal.com]

It's so fun! It's helped me a lot too with characterization and dialogue. If you ever wanna try one with me let me know :)

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Really looking forward to that mpreg. Looking forward to the other two, too, but mpregs is my weakness. Love reading them esp when they're well written and you're a wonderful writer!

[verucasalt123.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!!! That is a lovely compliment :)