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Random thoughts on Highlander and writing.

sierraphoenix you are truly inspirational. I really appreciated everyone who contributed to that discussion about Dean's immortality and Sammy with Sarah. I literally wrote the next story in the series in 30 minutes. It was one of those sit up in bed grab the paper and write before its gone moments. I will still have to edit it but wow it was a real Eureka moment. I don't think I ever written anything that fast. I just hope it looks as good in the morning as it felt writing it down.

So, anyone else out there ever have inspiration for a story or artistic work hit so fast it made you head spin. Just curious. What did it feel like for you?

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Wow, I'm inspirational? *blushes* Glad I could help! :D Can't wait to read the next part now.

And I know what you mean about head-spinning inspiration. Distant Relations was like that for me. I wrote the first chapter and the bare-bones notes for the entire story in one night. Now if only I could get inspired enough to finish it. I already know everything that happens, so it's just a matter of writing it.

I am glad that my story provoked that discussion. It really got me thinking anou the direction of the series.
And if you need to have a conversation at 2 in the morning about "Distant Relations" to jump start you let me know. Seriously, if you are looking for someone to bounch ideas off just email me. I'd love to help.

I get that feeling all the time. sometimes, I'm up writing until the wee hours of the morning, and my husband gets up, comes into the living room, and just shakes his head at me.

those are usually the best stories, btw. ;)

When i told hubby that i had been writing that late he offered to buy me a voice recorder. Guess he thought that would take less time.

I hope your right about the story quality. I have been relunctant to look at it yet for fear it was 2 am scribbling i couldn't translate but had only made sense in my head. :-P

Usually, for me, the stories that require the most work are the ones for which I have to get my muse into a headlock, and struggle. But I live by the motto: write crap, edit beautifully.

I am constantly editing. Heck i posted that SPN/HL Cross and this morning noticed some missing words and went back to edit the whole damn thing. I think that's why I like writing long hand. One extra edit involved in the transfer to typing.

I am also responding to your other post here - (Its getting awfully narrow on that thread *g* Methos and Chloe. I like it. I haven't attempted to put Methos in any stories yet. Still getting my feet on Highlander in general.

As for spamming, I too worry that I cross post too much but then I remember I never know where I'll be looking to find something I want to read. Especially with crossovers you want to hit both fandoms.

Until someone tells me it's rude, I usually post 2-3 other places that seem appropriate. Is there any LJ etiquette about cross posting?

I crosspost in about half a dozen places, depending on the fic. It's more of a pain that anything sometimes though, since each community has a different posting template. I finally made a draft post in Yahoo mail with all the comm templates and I just fill in the new info, then copy and paste.

As for inspiration, yeah, it happens too often! I could be writing the stories i have in my head for the next ten years, and then there's always new ones. [sigh]

I know that feeling of stories fighting each other forattention in my head and then i join a ficathon and have to write somehting not even on the list.

Good to know that crossposting is expected.

I have a Higlander question for you - Why did Duncan never tell Ritchie he had potential for Immortality. I missed it if he did. I know Rithcie dies but at least in my world he's still alive (for now)!

Usually pre-immortals aren't told about what's in store. I can't think off hand off a case where they told somebody what they were going to be. It's a matter of letting them live their lives normally. The only thin that triggers immortality is a violent death. So you could conceivably grow old and die. If you were to get sick and die, you'd just die permanently. In Highlander The Raven series, Amanda actually shoots a pre-immortal because he was poisoned and he would have stayed dead supposedly. There's much discussion on the point of just what constitutes a violent death [g]

Richie is alive in my Bloodties universe as well. Only because I started the series when the show was still on the air and wrote a story set in the future that had Richie in it. Then they killed him off!

Thanks. There was that one epsiode where an Immortal takes on an thief child apprentice and then shoots him when he gets old enough but again he never told the kid ahead of time. And the whole Kate thing. WHy not tell her and let her choose. i wondered if knowing somehow affect the Immortality trigger.

I need a "long live Ritchie" Icon because I love him and refuse to acknowledge his death! I think I will have him meet up with Dean and Sam in my new series. This is why i love fan fiction! (see Icon)

One of the more popular cheezy rationalizations on how Richie could still be alive, back after the ep aired, was that the demon tricked them all into thinking Duncan had killed Richie. That one always worked for me :)

Excellent. It totally fits with the SPN world. I see a story but I've got to get through the rest. Season 3 was sooo good and it just keeps getting better!

I wouldn't know. If there is, I've probably broken it flagrantly. But no one has called me on it. LOL!

I have about 6 or 7 communities that I regularly contribute to, and depending on the subject of the fic, I may post it so some or all of them.

As far as editing, you're a bit of a perfectionist like me. I didn't use to use a beta, but I've found that no matter how many things I catch, a fresh set of eyes will always pick out something.

Methos/chloe friendship just jumped into my brain. She's such the research/digger geek, and he knows everything. I think he'd find her highly entertaining. (In my mind, Chloe is the daughter-in-spirit to Nellie Bly and Alan Quartermain. Adventurous, prone toward trouble, smart and fast-talking).

I absolutely see Chloe that way.

As for Beta, I know I mention my son alot but he really is good at catching mixed tenses and missing commas. On the other hand I love the back and forth with another writer about a story that can be very insightful.

I think I did actually post my last story to 5 or 6 places because I had Crossovers100 and Highlander and SPN sites. It makes me feel like a published author so I love doing it!
Plus, I have Fanfiction.net and TTH accounts.

I've had a few stories that just wrote themselves. One was ''Ride the Lightning (http://www.spntwisted.com/viewstory.php?sid=119)' which I did for one of my Team Hellfire entries. I sat down to write at 8:30 to write and had it done by the 9pm deadline. lol. The other was for the tth-kink-a-thon and was quite porn-tastic but it also just wrote itself.

And it was an awesome feeling to just have the ideas flow like that. Kind of makes me not like those fics where I have to stop and think about what I'm doing. Of course once they're done I love those just as much.

The thing I love about fic that takes work is that in figuring out how to fix it, you learn. And then the next thing you write, you know so much more.

Yep. :) It is a pretty good feeling to notice those things you learn as you improve.

Ooh very good point. It is a learning experience for sure. I find straight fandom stories to be tougher than crossovers. I don't know why. But by the time I finish my current one, I am betting I won't be afraid to try again.

It was a great feeling. While I had felt that during the day, this was the first time I woke up at 2am and had to write. It was fun but damn am I tired today.

I will say I prefer it to wrestling a story into submission but you're right they aren't necessarily worse stories. Just a more difficult journey.

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