A half-eaten plot-bunny...

I don't know if that's the correct way to describe what happened with this plot bunny... but uh, well it sure feels like it.

So as usual, I was doing my own thing, when suddenly I was bothered inspired by a plot bunny.

Unfortunately I was nowhere near my computer and I didn't have a pen-paper-combo anywhere near. But I wasn't too bothered. I figured I'd just wait until I was at my computer to write out the plot bunny.

So then- hours later- I'm sitting at the computer. I write bits of dialogue and I stop.

Not because I'm tired, but because for the life of me, I couldn't remember what was supposed to happen.

I even tried staring at the dialogue I had so far-- to see if it brought up anything.

Nothing.

And now I'm stuck with odd bits of dialogue and stuff- and it feels interesting- but no idea what it was meant to actually be.

Here's what I managed to write...

=x=x=x=x=x=

Sirius huffed and followed the young men. 

"It's still following."

"Just ignore him."

"We can't just ignore it. It saved our lives, Dean."

"And what do you want me to do Samantha? Give it a scooby snack for a job well done?" 

Sirius felt helpless. In his current form, there was no way he could do anything to help the stupid boys. 

"Idiots!" Sirius gasped out as he threw the shotgun down and fell to his knees as blood dripped down his knees. His body shuddered with pain and his muscles twitched. "Don't be so damn reckless. How am I supposed to help you all the time."

The brothers stared at him with wide eyes. 

Sirius gasped for breath as his body forcefully shrunk down in height and 

=x=x=x=x=x=

 I'm guessing at the end Sirius turns back to his grim form- without actually wanting to. So Sirius is stuck in SPN world in his grim form- and probably has problems turning back into his human form or something like that?

Sam and Dean just think he's a dog until something where Sirius becomes human for a while?

Gah!

Anyway, thankfully my other writing is going smoother than this plot-bunny. I have my chapter 14 to-do-list and I've gotten some nice bits of dialogue already written up. 

[“But you're rich."

“That's only because we're cost-effective.”

“So basically, you're cheap and you want to be even cheaper.” ] Can you guess who's speaking?  Obviously it's not stellar dialogue, because it's still a draft. Who knows how it'll turn out after editing.

Hope you guys are having a nice summer!

Polar

 

 

Changes in FFnet's layout.

Intriguing. 

No, really. I'm really intrigued by them.

For as long as I can remember I've always believed that the admins at ffnet were non-existent in the running/improvement of the site. 

And then wham. Books covers and things... which like I said, is actually pretty intriguing. 

So, as far as I have seen, there's two major additions this week.

1- Story summary at the top of each chapter

This actually seems handy to me. 

I do have a habit of clicking story links from outside sources- where they don't list the author's summary. And I'm always obsessed about reading a summary before reading a story- so I usually end up having to go on the author's page and yeah... I actually like this in a way. No more extra clicking to know the story summary for me.

I tried to think of other possible benefits of this and came up with two

- Sometimes if an author takes ages to update (like me) and I tend to forget which story this is- the story summary at the top can refresh my memory a bit.

- I know that some people write their summaries on the top of their chapters- which is unnecessary- so this will help make word-counts more accurate? What? It sounds logical.

2- Book Covers.

Okay as soon as I saw this, I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I immediately tried to picture what AtO's 'book cover' would look like. There was a lot of red(guess why?) and I imagined hiding bits and pieces of future plot points in there. So now in my mind AtO has a super complicated book cover- complete with "Da Vinci Code"-esque hidden clues. 

Obviously, I managed to impress myself with my imaginary 'book cover'. Then I realised there was absolutely no way I'd be able to translate my mental image into an actual real-life 'book cover'. 

As much as I love my avatar- and while Lily's Itachi would look good anywhere- I  think I'll be changing the covers (even if it's just with an image that has my story title typed out in fancy font- actually that seems like a nice hassle-free idea.) 

Now, you're probably going- gosh, this post is just way too positive. 

You're right. 

I'm purposely trying to not see the bad/annoying part in these changes.

Polar

P.S. Itachi seems to be way popular in AtO. He hasn't been around since chapter 6 but people keep waiting for him to come back (at least that's what I understand from the reviews). I feel amused guilty because I have no plans of bringing him back anytime soon.