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So I'm coming into the SPN fandom with Horror High etc. four years after the series ended and I guess the fandom just... died a lot, after that. Which is really sad, considering how much content SPN gave the fandom over the years, it should have kept them going for like another decade at least but apparently as soon as the show ended half the "fans" were like I'M OUT.

It's too bad, really, because SPN is still a great series, but it's probably half the reason why Horror High etc. aren't catching on like they should be. If I had written the Horror High SAGA like five years ago, I would have been GOLDEN, but... nope. My brain produced it in summer 2024 instead, so I guess it is what it is! The few reviews that I DO get are generally really positive, so I'm just hanging my hat on that and also the fact that my brain WILL NOT LET IT GO.

Literally GO BIG OR GO HOME with this series, it turns out, so I'm in it for the long haul and I'll just keep posting even if literally no one reads it. *I* like it and that's the important thing.

Anyway, I'm up to 95 pages and 42,194 words so far in Storm Season and I'm REALLY hoping to get it finished before November hits and I take my break to write TKA. Then I can edit it in my (HAH) spare time and start posting it in December, and finish up the one-shots while I'm posting it. That sounds like a plan to me. Assuming everything goes the way I hope it does. :D;;

Right, so after I finish Storm Season (and TKA) and the Storm Season one-shots, the plan is to edit the SHIT out of TKA and then get out there and try to find myself a book agent to hock my wares. Not. Not the SPN stuff, obviously, but TKA. And then I want to get working on Pelts For Pounds and also Ghosts Of Nameless Stars, because I promised Poe I would write it ages ago.

Not that that really matters anymore, but I would like to be able to send it to them completed and just be like "Happy Birthmas", you know? Some time in January. So hopefully I can get that done. It's only a short story, though, I'm aiming for around 30 pages, so it shouldn't take forever to write. Theoretically.

I have two other short stories I want to write as well, one is called The Reeds and is something from FOREVER ago, I mean years and years ago, that keeps popping up in my brain time and time again, and the other is called Pluto's World (tentatively) and is just going to be a silly little fluff piece, as opposed to all my for srs writing that I normally do.

After that... I dunno. Depends on if I can get an agent/publisher to get behind the whole TKA franchise. Because if SO then I would need to get working on Book 3 of the TKA series (Grimoire), but if NOT then I think I might like to take a stab at Sins Of Angels. =/

I'm still working on the notes for Serial Spirits and The Rabid, both of which are largely horror genre, which is kind of me meandering into a new genre. I don't normally write strictly horror stuff. But what the hell, right? I'll write basically anything, if it comes down to it, with the exception of Harlequin-type bodice-rippers. I don't mind romance as a plot, but it can't be the entire book, just... blegh.

Also, funnily enough, I write SO MUCH smut in my fanfiction (except for Valdemar), but I don't write ANY in my original fiction. All my original stuff is very SFW, which Mom appreciates the HELL out of. I'm not entirely sure WHY it's like that, I just... I 'unno. *SHRUG* I get all the sex out of the way in my fics and then my original stuff is clean. Which is a plus because it's mostly aimed at YA so it can't be porny anyway, haha.

On a completely unrelated note, I posted Counting Scars to AO3 and Tumblr this past Thursday and never got around to posting it here for... some... reason. idek. Anyway, I'll post it here some time today or tomorrow when I remember, I promise!

EDIT: FUCK IT I'M JUST GONNA POST IT NOW WHILE I'M THINKING OF IT.

Alright, so basically I originally wrote Horror High and about halfway through I decided I wanted to write a sequel to it, which I now have about 50% figured out and which went through MANY title changes, but is now called Storm Season for various reasons. I wasn't originally going to write ANY one-shots.

But then I was like "I should write a little in-between fic about Cas and Dean's clandestine meet-ups over the years between Horror High and Storm Season", and so Cheap Motel was born, and right off the hop I knew it was 100% going to be about the smut and not much else, though I did want to add a specific ending to it to lead up to the beginning of Storm Season.

And then Counting Scars came along. And for the longest time (keep in mind I am saying this like it has been six months when it's only been TWO) I figured THAT ONE was better for that specific ending that I wanted to use as Storm Season lead in. But then I started writing it and it turned into another fic ENTIRELY, Falling Stars, though Falling Stars DID retain that ending and is the last of the one-shots, chronologically.

So what to do about Counting Scars? Well obviously I still wanted to write it, so I did, just with a different ending since it was now the middle fic in the set. It turned out a little shorter than Cheap Motel and Falling Stars, which is FINE because THOSE TWO clocked in at like 36 pages each which is LONG for a one-shot. Counting Scars is more like 28, which is still long, but more reasonable.

Right, so then I'm like. I'm done. I have these three (trashy porn) fics written, I just have to wait to post them after I'm done posting Horror High in a month or so.

BUT THEN.

Yeah, an idea for ANOTHER one-shot poked me in the brainspace, they are COMING OUT OF THE WOODWORK, and the next thing I knew today I was starting to write Cerulean Blue (formerly I Heart NY), which is going to be just as smutty as the others, but actually has a plot to it, a lot like Falling Stars. A PLOT. IMAGINE THAT. Here's hoping Cerulean Blue is the last of the HH/SS mid-way fics??

But looking at how things are going, assuming I DO write Storm Season, and that's a BIG "IF" right now, after it's finished it'll probably be followed up by at least two or three one-shot fics as well, taking place after the events of Storm Season.

So like. Yeah. This entire series has really gotten away from me, which would be GREAT! ...if people were actually READING IT. But right now it's complete self-gratification, I'm writing all these things, PAGES AND PAGES, knowing that basically I'm the only one who's enjoying them. It really feels pointless at times, but for some reason I just keep writing.

I really wish people would leave kudos, at least, or concrit in comments. I want to know what I've done wrong (aside from make Chuck intentionally OOC) and what's turning people off of Horror High. Because I have all this other content to share and I'm kind of like... blegh. I don't know. AO3 and Tumblr nowadays aren't very motivating. =/

So yesterday and today I've been really worried about Poe and to keep my mind occupied I've been writing. Which is no big surprise because that's basically all I do nowadays anyway. But yesterday instead of writing Witcher SPN AU like I have been the last week or so, I got out Cheap Motel and just... wrote it. Basically the whole thing.

I'd already written about 5 pages of it, but yesterday and today I finished it and it ended up at 34 pages. Which is, um. More. Than I had intended it to be. But at least it didn't do what Horror High did and become a 167-page monster of a fic. I think at 34 pages I can still post it as a one-shot, it'll just be a LONG one-shot.

Also an exceedingly porny one, like. Seriously. There are I think 5 sex scenes in Cheap Motel, not counting the MENTIONED ones that aren't actually WRITTEN OUT. But that was basically what I was writing Cheap Motel FOR, just gratuitous smut, so I guess mission accomplished? Basically the boys just locked themselves up in the motel for three days and had at it, with the occasional break for food or to shower.

And then the obvious drama over having to part ways at the end of the weekend.

I still have to edit it (I'm in the middle of that now) and then it gets stashed away to be posted at some point after I finish posting Horror High, since it's a Horror High sequel. In the meantime I can start working on Counting Scars, which is also going to be mostly porn but also fluff and setup for Storm Season, which I keep wavering on whether I'm going to even write or not.

Right NOW, just coming off writing Cheap Motel, I'm thinking yes? But every time I post a chapter of Horror High and get literally no feedback my motivation to write Storm Season wanes again. So I dunno, I guess we'll see. Maybe I'll take a break and write Alien: Kaer Morhen and then give Storm Season a go. Hmm.