dean’s prose is simple, straighforward and direct. its simplicity can be deceptive, thoough, full of hidden meaning and layers upon layers in his words that can be discovered only looking at it sideways. it will hit the reader later, while they’re driving or eating, or working; and it will stop them dead with a clear moment of understanding that will take their breath away.
i don’t think dean would like to follow strict rules of storytelling, or a fixed and constricted outline. i believe he’d like to start from a specific event and let the story talk to him and drives him where it wants to be taken and in the ways it wants to be developped.
his characters are going to be people that live on the margin of society. flawed, misfits, outcast. heroic despite themselves, all possessing a fatal flaw and a certain grittiness to them that makes them real. his dialogues are snappy and catchy, with many pop-culture references.
i think he’d love for his stories to have a happy ending: he fantasizes about his characters getting the quiet life after all is said and done: the loving family, the loyal friends. that want clashes with his more practical side. his pragmatism, maybe his honesty toward the story and the characters, keeps him from indulging into it. he’s not there yet.
[on the other hand, he reserves the happy ending for the childrens’ stories. in those, the monsters are killed by the bravest mom in the world, and the kids sleep quietly in their bed at night, safe and comforted.]
he writes his stories on an old typewriter in the heart of the night, when he can’t sleep and the pressure’s too much and the memories are too vivid. he doesn’t let anybody read them.
[but one day, many years after dean died, some new hunter will find the manuscripts in some drawer hidden under old vynils. when she will be done reading, she will be surprised to know who the author is. every hunter worth her name knows who dean winchester was, what he and his brother accomplished: the stories passed around from hunter to hunter like old myths. but it’s in reading his writing and the stories he created that she believes she finally got to know who the man behind the legend really was.]
