@samanddeaninpanties replied to your post

Oh!!! That’s right!!! The first idea would have required more research, yes? Right. Word count. The bane of your existence 😉 (keeping it short, that is). I can see how that affected your decision on where to place the story and the sweeter tone. I dig it though. And if you do end up ever writing a sequel/timestamp/whatever I’d totally read it.

lol. Yeah, I am terrible at keeping things short. But thank you 🙂 If I do write a timestamp/sequel I will definitely let you know. 

Soooooo. What made you decide to make it more of a fluff piece and set it in the period of time that you did? Was the fluff done on purpose or did it just happen that way?

Well part of it was because I didn’t know what I wanted to do. Well, that’s not true. I did, but my first idea fell through. But I think part of my reason was because I wanted to keep it short. I signed up for a mini bang it could have gotten way out of hand if I set it in an angstier time period. The fluff was kinda intentional.

I dunno, I think for the genre you ended up writing it worked well! If it was on the angstier side (closer to Some Things Last) I’d see how more scenes with them getting to know each other would be important. Learning Curve is a bit lighter on the angst, though. Sam’s got issues and I wanted to cuddle him but it felt like he’d gotten over the worst of them by the time Cas came along, if that makes sense?

No, yeah, Sam was mostly past those kind of issues by the time he met Cas. He was a little nervous about dating but that’s probably just something he would’ve felt no matter who I wound up pairing him with. It’s definitely way less angsty than Some Things Last. It’s more of a fluff piece, honestly. But yeah, if Cas would’ve met Sam during his law school days there would have been an assload more angst and much more roadblocks for the two of them.

Well, I mean, weren’t you in a rush to finish it? The one bad thing about writing on a deadline is your quality can take a hit at times. But I still think it’s awesome. What ways do you think you could have improved the fic?

Oh yeah, I was on a massive time crunch with that one. I didn’t keep track of the time line too well.
I think I could’ve done a little more with Cas and Sam getting to know each other. Or something. I dunno, I can’t put my finger on it completely but I feel like it’s off.

pshhhhh. I’m probably a bit biased since I believe I’m the one that poked at you to make this abo – but I think this fic is better than you seem to believe it is. Could it be better? Sure. I don’t think perfection really exists. Improvements are always possible. But being out of your depth doesn’t mean that you didn’t do the story justice or something, I hope you know. It’s perfectly possible to be out of your depth and STILL do well.

I’m a huge perfectionist, though, so I always feel like if it’s not perfect it’s crap. Logically I know there are good things about it, but I don’t feel it’s as good as I could have done. It’s still not horrible though.

I do believe we’ve discussed different ways you could revisit the universe, hehe 😉 and!!!! Yes!!! Sam being BAMF gets to me dude. I love it.

hehehe. Yes. I wanna do something in the universe. I mean, there are so many couples I could do, too! Lots of fun to be had.
Also, BAMF Sam is always the best.

@samanddeaninpanties replied to your post

I hadn’t thought of this – but that totally makes sense. Waiting til it’s finished will help with tagging, definitely. And posting it chapter by chapter will hopefully mean it’ll draw in more readers. I’ve had friends who post their fics by chapter once a week or once a month, etc even though they were completely finished! Tbh I’d likely do it that way too. 😛

That’s what I’m hoping. I do tend to get more attention if I post chapter by chapter (oddly). The only thing would be actually finishing it because I have a problem with doing that without a deadline. 

omg!!!! Will you post it as a WIP like you’re doing with The Dragon’s Keep? I know we talked about an alternative option last night…

I don’t know for sure, honestly. I think I want to have the whole thing done before I post it but I could post it in a WIP after it’s done. It’s kind of the nature of writing something that’s kinda mystery driven. I wanna make sure everythign is connected and makes sense and I know what all the potential triggers are so I don’t cause anyone any issues.