i1976

3) Write a story in which one of the characters ends up wearing a dog collar. (Keep the stories PG-13, please!)
Thanks for warning. :lol:
Mh..... A character wearing a dog collar....... punk style? Funny.

A sudden urge of writing brought me to this new fic (One shot).
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5275673/1/The_cure
I know, I know, It's a monotonous tune (but I like Enos-Daisy pairing... and there are so few Enos-Daisy writers out there......).
Please enjoy.

Daisy is looking outside the kitchen’s window, her eyes full of tears remembering the night she was there, hugging Enos.
“Daisy, darling, why are you still awake?â€
Her uncle’s voice makes Daisy jump, a brief gesture to wipe her tears off.
“I can’t sleep uncle Jesse, always the same nightmareâ€.
Uncle Jesse sighs, “Daisy, everything is OK, Enos is getting better and better, and Scanlon can’t hit anybodyâ€.
Daisy nods coming closer to her uncle and hugging him, “I know, but…. I can’t stop thinking of what happened, and what could have happened if….â€, her words stopped by a tight hug from her uncle, “Daisy, try to forget ‘bout it. Fortunately Enos is alive, and you tooâ€.
Back in her room Daisy tries to sleep only to wake up again, breathing heavily because of the thought of Enos’s blood coming continuously to her mind. The dawn filters in her room and the woman stands up, eager to go to the hospital to visit Enos, like every day since the shooting.
Daisy hates the typical smelling of the hospital, a mix of disinfectant and medicines. She passes quickly through the hall avoiding to look at the couches where that day she was waiting for doctors, torn between wish and fear to know ‘bout Enos’s condition in the operating room. She wants to forget about how long she stayed sitting on that couch while her family were hugging each other, and Boss Hogg and Rosco too, shocked in that wide and cold hall; in particular she wants to forget about Rosco standing silently in front of the white wall, his forehead against it like if he could hardly stand, something so strange for him. She wants to forget about everything in that hall, as well the small bathroom where she rushed so many times to let her tears out, and where she rushed to vomit in the moment she saw a doctor, his tight features, coming through a long corridor to tell them the news they’re waiting for.
Daisy is now walking along another corridor, the sun entering the large windows and lighting the tidy floor, so tidy it seems a mirror. And in this corridor she meets the same doctor she saw that day, and all days after; he smiles gently to her, “Good morning, Miss Dukeâ€. She remembers him talking to her family, Boss and Rosco while she was coming out that bathroom, her legs trembling and her hears buzzing; she remembers his tired features after the long operation, and she remembers his tired smile, that smile cheering her up and meaning that Enos was alive.
A brief knocking at the door, his voice behind it, and Daisy enters the small white room, the moment she prefers in those days.
“Hi Enos. Did you sleep tonight?â€, she smiles.
He nods, “Yeahâ€, is voice still hoarse because of the time spent in the Intensive Care Unit with a tube inside his trachea.
Only a glance to tell him that she didn’t sleep, again. “And what ‘bout you? You seems so tired, Dais. You shouldn’t come here every day in the morningâ€.
“Oh Enos, don’t worry. Doctor gave me permission to come to visit you at any time I want toâ€.
Enos sighs thinking of how is so simple to her to persuade people to do what she wants they do. He looks at her, her brown hair sparkling in the sunlight and her hazel eyes changing to a green shade. Her beauty makes him blush as usual, so he closes his eyes, resting on the pillows under his back.
“How’s your chest?â€.
Her voice snaps him out of his drowsiness, “Uh, better. It hurts a bit, but I’m OKâ€.
Daisy looks at the bandages covering his chest, something that still anguishes her, then she looks away focusing on his face and on his closed eyes, his eyelids gently trembling while he’s half asleep because of pain killers doctors are giving him.
The young woman takes his hand and she squeezes it gently, a gesture very familiar during all those days spent by his side at the Hospital, especially when he was in the Intensive Care Unit.
Falling asleep in the sunlight filling the little room, her hand still squeezing his one, Daisy promises to herself to be more honest ‘bout her feelings toward Enos in the future. “I won’t leave his hand any more, and I’ll do anything I can do to make him happyâ€, is what is thinking of in that white and sunny room, the only room where she can sleep, because Enos is by her side.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8541794/1/Carry-that-weight
The story is now COMPLETE!!!! Posted the epilogue.
I had a LOT of fun writing it (despite a bad crisis at the beginning of the story) and I hope people enjoyed it the same way I enjoyed to write it. OK, my final words about this story:
It's the most complex, sad and psychological story I've ever written (maybe much psychological and sad), with few action in it.
I explored Enos' possible past, along some complicated topics, so I decided to follow a path of "psychological analysis", "relationship between characters" (all the characters, not only Enos and Daisy, even if the story is obviously more focused on them), and of "growth". An experiment, a different story from my previous ones, but it helped me a lot to focus on things I usually missed.
I tried to use all the characters (and I hope my portray of Bo, Luke and especially uncle Jesse is OK).
I tried to "push" difficult and hard topics into Hazzard's universe, but trying my best not to lose the focus on Hazzard (Enos is Enos, Daisy is Daisy, Luke is Luke, Bo is Bo, uncle Jesse is uncle Jesse, Hazzard is Hazzard!!!, even if in totally new situations); so I sincerly hope you could read this story as you're watching a DOH's episode (even if a dramatic and angst episode, different from the "lightness and happiness" of the most part of the canon show).
I hope it worked, and I hope it'll work with my next story, "Shattered", a new attempt to mix Hazzard with something hard, but keeping it in DOH's style (I mean, sense of friendship, love and family despite some hard and thorny topics here and there).
Thank you for reading it

Just a little reflection on writing.
There was a time I just wrote fanfic, with no clue about statics... and be content of a single review. 'Till "Memories?"
I don't know why, maybe it's because of me (doubting of my writing) or maybe something changed into fanfiction.net's realm, or maybe I simply became aware of something I didn't notice, previously.
I'm pretty sensitive to changes in athmosphere wherever I go, and I couldn't help but notice that a LOT of old writers are stopping writing (GOOD and TALENTED writers), and I don't know why: Hazzard's realm is dying? Are they noticing that strange change in athmosphere, like me? Or... simply.. they're interested in other fandoms, right now.
So, I'm wondering when I'll stop writing, 'cause it'll happen.... it's normal, and I'm wondering how it'll happen: will I be interested in something else beside DOH? or why? Sometimes I wonder WHY, and WHEN, a fanfic writer just decides "OK, stop, I've had enough".
Uh, no, I'm not saying I'm going to stop NOW, just a reflection. :-))
I have to finish "Shattered", anyway, and I just have to find the naivety of my first writing... and I'm finding it again.

Thank you, Roth, I really appreciate it.
The series Enos... it's very foggy in my mind, 'cause I watched it only one time, when I was a child. But I remember an episode where Enos' colleagues go on strike, and he's the only one to keep on working, 'cause it's his job (totally Enos-style): this is the side of Enos I want to write of

Warning: SPOILER!!!
OK, It's finally time to explain what "Shattered" is about.
I posted a new chapter few days ago... and readers got it (after the first foggy chapters)... in effect there was too much clues in this chapter.
NOW, this fic is a sort of cross-over between DOH (the series) and Enos (the series), 'cause part of the story is set in L.A.
The story is about... ehm... police brutality: what Enos would do if he saw some officers acting... not as good cops, and the consequences of it. I like to explore his mind and his idealism (and how such a thing can affect him).
I just want to say that this fic is not against "cops", and I want to say to readers who're following it that I hope I didn't offend anybody, touching this kind of topic (it's the thorny topic I was talking about), and if someone is offended, I'm sorry. It's not a story against cops but a story against violence, and the real meaning of being a cop, an honest cop.
I prefer to say it, and... I decided to say it here 'cause I can't say it at the end of every chapter, as a final note.
Recently, looking at pictures Roth is posting (GREAT pictures!!!), I started to ask to myself if I'm not betraying Hazzard's spirit with a fic so dramatic and violent, in some points, but, hey, fanfics means also exploring new paths and new adventures for our beloved characters: my attempt, now, is to write this fic remembering the spirit of the show (and it's why I'm re-watching some episodes and I'm very glad to find some great pictures on this site... 'cause they remember me the show; and it's why the fic is set in Hazzard whereas the "dark"-L.A.'s part is written as flash-backs).
In the future, I promise to write fics less dark and more sweet (as my first ones... I realized, recently, how much people like them )
OK, I won't bother you anymore with my confused and confusing thoughts. I think I said everything I have to say (and a lot MORE, as usual ). And... thinking about it... maybe I shouldn't even have opened this thread. Maybe I worry too much for stupid things.
I hope you didn't find it pointless... and weird.

I don't know where to post it... if here in fanfic announcement or in general discussion.
It's about "Shattered" but also about writing in general. (if Admin want to change the place of this thread, there's no problem)
Now, this is the "problem".
As everybody knows, I'm a huge fan of Enos (did you notice?, LOL), and I started writing fanfic since 2007 (my first attempt to write being here, in Round Robin). Along the years I've improved grammar (even if it's not perfect, and never will be, unfortunately) and in the last year I'm struggling to find MY style (about plots and writing) but without losing the focus on characters.
I mean: I'm re-watching some episodes to catch the "soul" of characters (Enos and Daisy above all), and I want to write of them in a deeper way (dramatic stories) but without losing the basic characteristics of canon characters; a deeper but not distorted version of Enos and Daisy. The more I write dramatic and rough stories, the more I FEAR to "lose" the canon characters, changing them, since whereas the show were light I write darker stories (do you understand what I mean? Did anybody face the same feeling?). An effort to give more depth to characters BUT not changing them in someone else. I know characterization is sometimes subjective, but the are some basic characteristics you can't change, about characters.
About "Shattered": this is a story based on Enos as a COP, what's mean to him (in the show nobody never said WHY a son of a moonshiner decided to be a cop, but it's said that "being a cop" is LIFE). Along the years, writing about Enos, I've developed some basic ideas of him:
- Strong set of values. He needs to feel as if he's living his life in accordance with what he feels is right, and will rebel against anything which conflicts with that goal.
- He is likely to be kind, gentle and sensitive in his dealing with others. Interested in contributing to people's sense of well-being and happiness, putting a great deal of effort and energy into tasks which he believes in.
- He genuinely cares about people, and he is strongly service-oriented in his desire to please.
- He has an unusually deep will of caring for those who is close to, showing his love through actions, rather than words.
(it's why I LOVE him, after all, LOL).
I love coupling these strong and deep characteristics with his being shy, clumsy and naive. My basic idea of him is that he's basically an IDEALIST.
And lately, re-watching some episodes, I'm having the idea that, in the first series, Daisy was sort of "jealous" about Enos' integrity (his job above all; in many episodes you can seen her angry to Enos because his doing his job, being sometimes nasty to him), whereas in the last series she's more sweet to him (sort of "It's not your fault, sugar. You're doing your job") as if she's learnt to respect this strong side of him (accepting that, yeah, Enos' duty is her worst rival, no other women but his duty). Is it only my feeling?
OK, after this premise: why am I writing it about "Shattered"?
In "Shattered" I'm going to focus on Enos as a COP, so, if ANY of you has some hints, opinions, remarks about this side of Enos (and about how I'm writing of it), well, tell me, or tell me your idea of Enos (it could be useful). (OMG, thinking about it... this thread could be placed also under "Cast - character: Enos Strate", SORRY, but I don't know where to place it!!!).
A fundamental add to explain why I decided to open this thread HERE: I'm going to touch a thorny topic in "Shattered" (but, hey, I won't reveal it here, NOW, 'cause it'd be a terrific spoiler), and, WHEN I'll touch that topic, I'll need a place (here) to explain why and how I've decided to touch such a thing (no, I'm not writing about abuse or rape...., don't worry), but it's my way to expore this side of Enos: the honest and idealistic cop, and maybe I'll need your help for advice, in order not to lose the focus of Enos Strate as he was in the TV-show, despite the thorny topic.
Notes at the end of chapters are good, BUT I can't write so long notes, LOL, and I think this could be a good place for feedback.
I don't know if any of you is reading the story, and I don't want to bother you, so I won't link the story here: if you want to read it, you know where to find it.
If you're not reading the story and you're not interesting in reading it, sorry for this long and maybe useless post...and if you're reading it, any hint (here, by PM; whatever you want) is welcome.
Thanks.

"You really seem to take all the characteristics of the characters, explore them and add feelings to them in the way we expect people from hazzard to react. What I mean to say is that everything in 'Shattered' is something which could most definitively happened in Hazzard County."
Roth_Potter gave me the best compliment EVER. THANK YOU!!!! :-))
I'm really glad to write this story, 'cause I've found something to say above the plot in itself, and a way to explore characters: as I said elsewhere, writing for me it's not just a matter of "plot", but I usually try to say something more in a story... and this story is about idealism and honesty (despite the thorny topic about police brutality).
I want to THANK everybody is reading it, I really appreciate it and I'm really happy to realize how many people are reading it.
And I hope the "sense" of this story is going to reach the readers.
Obviouly, it's just a DOH's fanfic, and I'm doing my best to keep the story "in Hazzard". So, I think in the next chapters you're going to meet some of Hazzard folks... Miss Tizdale, Granny Annie, and... maybe... Emery Potter :-)) It's a broad story involving ALL Hazzard, all the town around its beloved deputy.

Bo smiles "We know Enos would do anything for you, Daisy. And maybe he knows something 'bout Jake", then looks at Luke "we should try to ask Enos for help, cousin"
(sorry guys, I'm late, but when I hear 'bout Enos..... voilà.... I'm here, LOL)
cue anybody

Yeah. When I think of all the "Daisy-Enos thing" during the show, I imagine their relationship as I'm trying to show in my fics. Something like a friendship that is more than a friendship. Something Daisy wants to hide to people, so sometimes she's sweet with him (especially when they are alone) but sometimes she pretends she doesn't care of him. Why? Well, I'm trying to show Daisy's psychology (a bit "tortuous", I know, but, anyway, women's psychology IS tortuous )

I write like Tolstoj .
This is strange 'cause I've never read Tolstoj's books (I've read thousand books of thousand writers, but never Tolstoj.....)
Oh, well, thinking 'bout it, several years ago I tried to read Anna Karenina, but I didn't like it very much (maybe I was too young).
Anyway, since I write like Tolstoj, I'll read again Anna Karenina, trying to appreciate it.

I don't know anything 'bout country music.
I searched this song on YouTube.... Oh my gosh.... it's so Hazzard's style.

CIAO Melissa!!!! Benvenuta :-))
HEY HossC... Is there something you DON't know????

You scared me!

What a happy thread.... if I had known you ALL were going to start talking of death (and of dying young) I wouldn't have started it, ROFL.

I know it sounds crazy, but it looks like the extractor cap of a stove.
I don't know why a stove in a garage, anyway.
And the award for the silliest answer goes to... i1976!
LOL

Great scenes. I hope you're going to post more :-)) (I love pictures from behind the scenes and rare pictures!!!)

Unfortunately for the Dukes, Sheriff Little was very good at shooting, and he had a great aim.
Suddenly the left back tire burst, but Bo managed to control the car, stopping it.
The boys in the car held their breath.
Sheriff Little smiled satisfied.
Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane gloated.
Cletus laughed happily.
Enos sighed.

"But, what if I lose again my temper? It scares me. I didn't know who I was. It wasn't me, and if..."
Daisy squeezed his hand, "Enos, stop, please. You are the man I've always known. A sweet and nice man. Ok, you got angry and you beat a stalker down. But that man was stalking me. I was angry and upset, everyone was angry, and you was angry too. There's nothing to be ashamed of".