HH Rambles
Jul. 13th, 2024 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanimadinSo I am currently 121 pages into HH and still going, but yesterday I finished up the beginning part and pared off the first chapter to post it. I posted it here, on AO3 and on Tumblr, as usual. Not that it's a surprise but I'm not getting much feedback. I'm a new SPN writer, it's my first Destiel fic, it's top!Dean and bottom!Cas (which I prefer while most of the fandom likes the opposite), and etc. It's gotten like 50 hits on AO3 so far, 3 comments (one of them doesn't even count, it was a reader telling another commenter not to be rude) and I think 5 kudos. So basically nothing. It's a little disheartening, but not unexpected.
Mostly I'm writing HH for me anyway, because I'm having fun with it even if other people don't like it as much as I do. So I'm obviously going to continue writing it. I've already written about seven pages today alone. Right now I'm kind of trying to fill in the gaps in the storyline because I'm writing it in scenes here-and-there. Trying to add more scenes with Charlie, Jody and Garth because they're becoming Cas's cornerstone and very important in his life, even though I didn't really start out with that intention. Haha.
Today I finished up Chapter Two, which I'm going to post next Friday. Then I'll post Chapter Three the Friday after that, and then the Friday after that, and so on. I'm really going to try to keep an update schedule with this one, which is something I've never been good with before. Sometimes I update like every day, or even multiple times a day (looking at you Biology), and other times I don't update for literally YEARS between chapters. With HH I think I'm going to be able to keep a proper schedule, if anyone out there actually reads it and cares.
I've always said that the real sequel (not Cheap Motel or Counting Scars), Storm Season, would be dependant on the reception that HH got. With what it's gotten so far it's not looking good, but I'm keeping my spirits up because it's only just the first chapter. Also I was planning to make SS top!Cas and bottom!Dean but I'm rethinking that because like... I really do enjoy the other way around much more. Also one of the 2 comments I got gave me shit for mentioning in my notes that the sequel was going to switch them around. They were like "here's all the reasons I hate bottom!Dean and you completely lost my interest in your fic when you mentioned switching to bottom!Dean."
And I'm like. Did you not read the part where ALL OF HORROR HIGH IS TOP!DEAN? And HH can be read as a self-contained fic, you can read it and not read the sequel?? That is a thing that is possible?? That was the comment that the other reader was like "don't be rude" to, and frankly I agree. It was unnecessary.
But the thought of doing SS as top!Dean and bottom!Cas as well isn't really because of that one stupid comment, I just really prefer that dynamic between them myself as well. I have some time, though, so I can think on it and I guess we'll see. :|
Mostly I'm writing HH for me anyway, because I'm having fun with it even if other people don't like it as much as I do. So I'm obviously going to continue writing it. I've already written about seven pages today alone. Right now I'm kind of trying to fill in the gaps in the storyline because I'm writing it in scenes here-and-there. Trying to add more scenes with Charlie, Jody and Garth because they're becoming Cas's cornerstone and very important in his life, even though I didn't really start out with that intention. Haha.
Today I finished up Chapter Two, which I'm going to post next Friday. Then I'll post Chapter Three the Friday after that, and then the Friday after that, and so on. I'm really going to try to keep an update schedule with this one, which is something I've never been good with before. Sometimes I update like every day, or even multiple times a day (looking at you Biology), and other times I don't update for literally YEARS between chapters. With HH I think I'm going to be able to keep a proper schedule, if anyone out there actually reads it and cares.
I've always said that the real sequel (not Cheap Motel or Counting Scars), Storm Season, would be dependant on the reception that HH got. With what it's gotten so far it's not looking good, but I'm keeping my spirits up because it's only just the first chapter. Also I was planning to make SS top!Cas and bottom!Dean but I'm rethinking that because like... I really do enjoy the other way around much more. Also one of the 2 comments I got gave me shit for mentioning in my notes that the sequel was going to switch them around. They were like "here's all the reasons I hate bottom!Dean and you completely lost my interest in your fic when you mentioned switching to bottom!Dean."
And I'm like. Did you not read the part where ALL OF HORROR HIGH IS TOP!DEAN? And HH can be read as a self-contained fic, you can read it and not read the sequel?? That is a thing that is possible?? That was the comment that the other reader was like "don't be rude" to, and frankly I agree. It was unnecessary.
But the thought of doing SS as top!Dean and bottom!Cas as well isn't really because of that one stupid comment, I just really prefer that dynamic between them myself as well. I have some time, though, so I can think on it and I guess we'll see. :|
