The Spice is Life

So, today is November 15th which means it marks the midpoint of Nanowrimo. I have ~25,500 words, which is just about perfect. Some people have already finished, which boggles my mind, but I'm telling myself that slow and steady wins the race.
My heroine has to get rescued now. I have no idea how that's going to happen. I hope the second half of the month isn't too much harder than the first!

Oh! And I used the Write or Die website for the first time this week. The 'evil sound' was the song Mmm bop, by Hanson. I laughed, hard.
Then I told my 17 year old step sister about it and she says, "Who's Hanson?"
I'm only 23, I'm not supposed to feel old yet! LOL.

So it's day six of nanowrimo and I'm still on target with my word count. I made it to ~10,150 words. I feel good about it so far. Last night I came up with an idea to expand the plot, which is really good since I was worried about not having enough plot. I kinda like my bad guy, he's pretty twisted and evil, though I still need to figure out a redeeming quality for him. I'm hopeful that I will be able to finish!

So, I decided a couple weeks ago to do Nano. I've already completely discarded my original idea and started plotting a new one. Then yesterday I switched main characters, which doesn't change much, except that it changes EVERYTHING!
So yeah, freaking out a little since I'll be pantsing more than I'd like.

I'll try and post my progress every few days or so. Any advice from my flisters who have done this before?
It starts tomorrow. It starts at midnight!
*FLAILS*

So, I've been writing what I hope will turn out to be an original novel. I like it, and I'm enjoying writing it, but it's kind of all happy and light and sometimes I want to write dark and depressing. So that's what this is. Dark and depressing. You have been warned. This was inspired by the Dean Focused Tags Challenge over at hoodie_time.


Title: A Place to Sleep
Beta: tamibrandt 
Pairing: None,gen
Rating: R
Word Count: ~3,280
Warnings: Depression, suicide
Summary: Sam gets a call from his father, who he hasn't heard from for years. Why is calling now?
Disclaimer: None of the Winchesters belong to me. That's probably a good thing.
Note:  The title is taken from lyrics to This Night by Black Lab. The tone of that song...my heart breaks every time.

 

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Title: Leave All Your Love And Your Longing Behind
Rating: R
Pairing: Dean/Lisa
Word Count: ~28,000
Warnings/Spoilers: This contains spoilers for all of season 3 and the beginning of season 4. Also, character death (think season 3 and 4).
Summary: What if, after leaving Lisa and Ben at the beginning of season 3, Dean had changed his mind and turned back around. What would happen then?

Author's Notes: This is my entry for this years spn_j2_bigbang.The story follows the events of season three as though Dean and Sam had stayed with Lisa and Ben. Each chapter happens AFTER the episode it's named for. The episodes mostly occur as in canon, and here is a link to the supernatural wiki which has amazingly good summaries of each episode so that if you wish you can follow along and refresh your memory as to what happened. Or, if you're hard core and have the dvds, you can watch along with the story as well. I'm told it can be read and understood without all that, but if you have the time I highly recommend watching the episodes along with the story. The story does not include episode 1 of season 3, I didn't just forget to post it ;)
The title comes from lyrics of the song 'Dog Days Are Over' by Florence and the Machine.

A HUGE thanks to my beta, quovadimus83  who when I told her my idea said immediately: "I freaking LOVE Ben, sign me up!" And helped me make this story much, much better than it would have been :D

A hug to my artist, idontagree, who made the lovely dividers I used, and who drew an amazing picture of Ben that I'll hopefully be able to post soon. She's going through a rough time right now, so send her virtual hugs!

And a round of applause for my pinch-hitter artist, angelicfoodcake, who came up with amazing art that I love, so make sure to check it out in the art post!!!

                                                            Part One~Part Two~Part Three~Epilogue~Shiny Art Post

Edit: A shiny new pdf of the story made by sgmajorshipper is here. Thank you some much!