ella_menno | Entries tagged with writing

K, honey, you are truly one of the best, most genuine people I know. Not only do you make fandom a better place, you make the world better. Your determination and bravery are inspiring to me. Your kindness and generosity of spirit make me want to become a better person.

My life has been immeasurably enriched by knowing you. I hope you know how much I value you and our friendship; it’s meant more to me than you could possibly know that you’ve stayed with me through all the ups and downs of the past few years.

*hugs*

I wanted to write you a silly little something for your birthday – remember the prompt you gave me a month or so back? Well, it kind of spiraled away from where I thought it was going, and it picked up a little plot on the way. (Not much; just a little. *g*)

In any case, I hope you enjoy it. I’m sure it could stand some more work, but this is more or less how it wanted to be.

“Like Father, Like Sons”
by me! *twirls*
SPN, gen, pre-series, wee!chesters
rating: teen, for language
spoilers: none
summary: Sam's 11, Dean's 15, and John is 41. For a while, anyway.
word count: upwards of 5000. *blinks* How'd I manage that??
dedication: to dolimir, who shares the Papa Winchester love. This is only a small token of my affection and admiration. The happiest of birthdays to you, K. You deserve it!

a/n: Sadly, this is unbetaed (because I am a lousy, stinking procrastinator.) All concrit/comments are welcome. I’m always looking to improve.

( Like Father, Like Sons )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: almost in bed
Current Music: stand, REM

First of all, let me assure you I am DEAD of LAUGHING:

( Best quiz EVER )

And then, I am asking (once again) if anyone is available for quick beta. I promise I will stay awake this time, unlike the last couple of times I sent out a flare and then disappeared.

Bwee!

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: still with the chair. oy.
Current Music: they might be giants

So I'm writing this afternoon, right? And it's going pretty well, so I says to myself, "Self," I says, "how about you take a break for a couple minutes, maybe look around LJ?"

And then I look up and my 'couple minutes' of a break have turned into an hour and a half.

*sigh*

This is why I never get things accomplished. I'm just saying.

(p.s. though I did find a bunch of nifty icons while i was ~~procrastinating~~ taking that break. see?)

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Location: the best chair EVAH
Current Music: ain't no other man, christina aguilera

Um. I got broadsided by this when I wasn't looking?

"This is the most fucked up thing that has ever happened to us," Dean muttered finally, cranking the ignition back on.

Sam's was voice trembling a little, like he was fighting down that same insane wanting to laugh. "There was that time you got turned into—"

"We swore we'd never talk about that again, you asshole," Dean said, giving him a shove, and peeled out onto the highway.

--from Binding by

astolat, which is an excellent story that deserves better than this, but, you know. Broadsided.

( Untitled )

Current Mood: on the crack, evidently
Current Location: the best chair EVAH

Ganked from

fernwithy, because it looked like way too much fun to pass up.

Tell me about a story I haven't written, and I'll give you one sentence from that story.

Current Mood: silly
Current Location: the floor
Current Music: little boys complaining about their handwriting work

Title: as you would have wished to live
Author Name: jenowago
Characters: Meg; OCs, both m and f; mentions of Sam, Dean, and the YED
Prompt used: for the

batoutofkansas challenge - #31: I got a taste of paradise/I'm never gonna let it slip away/I got a taste of paradise/It's all I really need to make me stay/Just like a child again
Word Count: 1700, give or take a few.
Spoilers: Scarecrow, Dead Man’s Blood, Salvation, Devil’s Trap
A/N: Thanks from the bottom of my procrastinating heart to

dolimir_k for her excellent last-minute beta.
Inspired in large part by something

morgan32 said in her bible entry for “Devil’s Trap” over in

spnheavymeta. (The actual quote can be found after the story.)
Rating: 14+, for violent imagery, slight reference to non-con, and sexual activity.

( read the story )

The title comes from Christian Furchtegott Gellert: “Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying.”

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Location: the best chair EVAH
Current Music: Turn You Inside Out, REM

Needed: beta for my

batoutofkansas (fandom: SPN, of course) story. It's around 1500 words, no pairing, (minor) character study, probably rated Teen/PG-13 for violence and mentions of sexual activity.

Email is in my profile, or leave a comment. I'll be online pretty much all afternoon, with various moments away to tend to the offspring.

I'm begging, here. *pleads heartrendingly*

Current Mood: frantic
Current Location: my room
Current Music: washer/dryer

Dear All of Fandom and Fannish Things,

I am not a terribly focused person to begin with. Tell me; how am I supposed to concentrate and get this story done when you're all out there, with your stories and vids and *gesticulates wildly* interesting stuff??

YOU ARE SO VERY DISTRACTULATING.

Procrastinatingly yours,

Me

Current Mood: distracted
Current Location: the best chair EVAH
Current Music: SPN 1x01, Pilot

You know what I’m good at? Coming up with ideas for stories. I can come up with a lot of ideas, and quickly.

I’m good at coming up with details to fill in the emptier spots, and with adjusting things for accuracy.

I’m good at discarding the parts of the story I’d like to see but that, when I’m honest, I know won’t work with what I know of canon, or with the established characterizations.

What I’m not good at is getting all those things out of my head and onto paper/screen. I swear it’s like pulling teeth – every word has to be coaxed, if not yanked, out of my brain.

*sighs* So frustrated right now….

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Location: the TV room
Current Music: Math Blasters

[mysterious aside] I kind of can't believe I'm doing this. [/ma]

Just so you know, even though I've not yet seen all the episodes, I'm not worried about being spoiled. (Hell, I'd never be able to watch this show if I was unspoiled.)

1. When (in what episode) do the boys find their dad?

2. Once they find him, is he in all the episodes from that point on? (Until he dies, I mean.)

3. In what episode does he die? (Thanks to fannish osmosis, I believe it's the first episode of season two, but I want to double check.)

4. There's a four-year age gap between Sam and Dean, right? (Heh; I originally typed "Dam and Sean.")

5. For characterization purposes, what is the best episode to watch to get a handle on Papa Winchester? (And please, for the love of a slow download, try to limit yourselves to *one*.)

6. I know that everyone in fandom calls their car the "Metallicar" - but I have to assume that the boys do not. What, if anything, do they call it?

Mmmkay, I think that'll about do it for now.

ETA: No, wait a sec.

7. Who the frack is this Jim guy, and what (if any) episodes is he in?

*wins at parentheses*

Current Mood: creative
Current Location: mom's house
Current Music: "Cars"

Because I've dithered over this long enough.

Title: 20 Random Things the Basilisk Would Prefer No One Else Knew, circa 1992
Author:

jenowago
Character(s): The Basilisk; brief mentions of other characters
Rating: G
Summary: Twenty facts about Hogwarts’ most famous snake.
Warning(s): It’s entirely possible I did too much research into snakes before writing. It’s also entirely possible that this is what they call “crack fic.”
Disclaimer: The Basilisk and all other Harry Potter characters and locations belong to JKR. I use them only in fun.
Author's Notes:
A)Written as part of The Harry Potter Random Facts Fest, which you should go and look over right now, if you haven't already done so.
B) Bonus point to the first person to catch the Lockhart allusion.
C) Feedback is appreciated, adored, and always acknowledged.

( Twenty Random Things the Basilisk Would Never Admit to Anyone )

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: the best chair EVAH
Current Music: Josh Kelley

Watched RotS a few days ago; tonight, caught Empire and Jedi. (I know I'm abbreviating them differently. Meh.)

So here's what's going through my head after said viewings:

1. Has the Emperor lost his touch in the 20 or so years since he turned Anakin? Because in RotS, he very carefully and deliberately seduces Anakin to the dark side. (I'll teach you to defeat death, I'll save your wife, you'll have more power, etc.)

In Jedi, Palpatine is all "hey, kid, here's the deal. Your friends are gonna die, your cause is gonna fail, and you're gonna be my apprentice." I mean, he's not even trying to convince Luke to turn - he's just telling Young Skywalker what IS going to happen.

Wouldn't it make more sense for him to bargain, like he did back in the day with Anakin? Something along the lines of, "if you accept the dark side, we'll spare your friends down on Endor"?

2. All right, here's a big one. Think back to TPM, and Obi-Wan's status. He was how old in that one - twenty-five, maybe? - and yet, he was still a Padawan. Granted, Qui-Gon said that Obi was more than ready to take the trials (the exact wording escapes me), but follow me here: Obi, as our example, gets taken from his birth family at no more than six months of age. He then spends the next twenty-four and a half years as an apprentice.

Luke, on the other hand, starts training at the advanced age of nineteen. He trains with old Ben for a ridiculously short amount of time - at most, I can give it a week, based on what we see in canon - and the remainder of his training (with Yoda) lasts, I'm guessing, for not even six months. (I always assumed it was a much shorter period of time, but the poking around I've done looking for fic has presented me with the idea that it could have been that long. Definitely not any longer than that.)

And yes, I understand that there are extenuating circumstances. But, come on - Luke is a fully trained Jedi (but for the confrontation with Vader) after, like, a semester's worth of study? Which leads me to my next point:

3. What, pray tell, was Luke up to in the period between Empire and Jedi? He goes from a whippersnapper who gets his clock cleaned by Vader to a zen-masterish, man-in-blackness, fully in command of himself and his awesome powers Jedi Knight. From his conversations with Ben and with Yoda in Jedi, it doesn't seem like he's been learning from them in the interim; what happened? He fasted and meditated? He reviewed what he'd already learned? He ordered Jedis for Dummies from Amazon Intergalactic? I'm at a loss, here.

4. Every time I watch these movies, I like Yoda a little bit less, particularly in the PT. He's a smug, arrogant little bastard with a superiority complex, and his wee!Jedi!raising ideas stink.

5. I so very, very desperately want to read fic set during Jedi that takes into account all the new canon from the PT. What was going through Anakin/Vader's mind as he watched the Emperor zap Luke with Sith lightning? Was he thinking about the time Palps was zapping Mace Windu and realizing that waaaaaaay back then, he should've saved Mace and not Palpatine?

How did he feel when he found out that he had a daughter, too? Did he get her identity from Luke's mind, or just the fact that she existed? If he knew Leia was his daughter, did he have even a moment of remorse for the particular pain he'd caused her?

And how about a post-Jedi story, where Anakin's ghost/spirit/whatever comes back to talk to Leia? What would they say to one another? Would she even consent to talk to him? I had this flicker of an idea where Anakin would want to talk to her, but was unable to get near her because of the anger and hatred she feels toward him. Since he is officially on the side of light again, her overwhelmingly negative-aggressive-dark emotions would prevent him from getting close to her.

I'm sure there are more plot and/or character points that bother me, but it's late, and I have to work in the nursery ~~tomorrow~~ this morning.