Why does everything to do with writing take me ages to get done? I start, then for a few days I try do write some more, but I get nothing done.

Okay, so here's the spoilery interview:
http://www.tvguide.com/news/supernatural-burning-questions/080207-02

And here are my comments:

If we don't get a full Season 3, what would happen with Dean's deal? Would the big climax be in the middle of Season 4 or would it be extended to the end of Season 4? — acsgrlie
Kripke: That's a very smart question, and one that's currently haunting my dreams. There's a simple answer: We'll definitely save the climax of Dean's Deal for Season 4, no question. And there's a more complicated answer: Not many showrunners will admit it, but the strike is throwing a lot of stories on a lot of different series up in the air. I mean, how do you get back on the story track in an elegant, artful way? If I had to guess, I'd say I'm probably going to end up combining the Season 3 and Season 4 mythologies into one big story to play out next season. It's interesting how real-world issues affect the creative storytelling of the show. There's no doubt that, because of the strike, I'm going to end up telling a slightly different story than I had originally intended. Knowing how these things go, however, it'll probably end up being a better one. Happy accidents usually result in better stories.

Yay, someone asked that question! Season 3 and 4 mythologies combined? I wonder if that means less Monster of the Week episodes. I love me some mytharc eps, but what if S4 has too many of them?
And somewhere (Sorry, no link - I don't remember where I read it) I read that after the strike we can expect. Now what does that mean? Is that a studio decision? Is that just speculation? As much as I'd love more Supernatural, I don't think it's a good idea to continue now with a story that cannot be resolved now.

Will there be a season finale type of cliffhanger when the last episode [filmed before the writers strike] airs? — diamondlove22
Kripke: The final episode we're airing — "Jus in Bello" — wasn't originally going to be the last one, but we slid it back to serve as a kind of make-shift season finale. It's a big, epic, action movie of an episode, it climaxes the Agent Henriksen storyline, and it's got a few interesting mythology reveals, so we hope it'll tide the fans over until whenever we return. But honestly, we didn't have time to create a proper cliffhanger. Hell, we barely had time to get our final scripts finished before the writers strike. So it's not a perfect cliffhanger, but it still goes out with a bang, and I think fans will love it.

Oooh, Agent Hen(d)ri(c)kso/en and mythology in the same episode! What worries me a bit is that this big episode is 11, but we get to see it after 12. What if 12 (OMG, I can't wait to see that one!!!!!!1eleventyone!) has some kind of mention of what happened in 11 that could spoil it a bit? Do I worry to much?

Why has no one made the slightest mention of where Ellen and Jo are and what's happening to them? They weren't killed off or explained off, and it just doesn't seem logical that Bobby, Dean, and Sam would just forget all about them, especially after Ellen's involvement in the Season 2 ending. — AriGato
Kripke: As far as Jo goes, I don't know why they would mention her, because I feel we concluded her story fairly elegantly in Season 2. Dean left her at the bar, she was going to continue to hunt on her own, and she knew, with melancholy, that he was never going to call her again. She was older, sadder, wiser. End of story. As for Ellen, I agree with you, we probably should have mentioned what she's been doing. And for the record, I kept trying to squeeze some expository dialogue about Ellen into the early drafts of the first few episodes, I tried a few times actually, but it always stuck out like a sore thumb. The boys had so much on their plate — Dean's deal, Sam's darker nature, all the new Demons loose across the landscape — that it never felt natural to shoe-horn in dialogue along the lines of: "hey, by the way, what's Ellen doing?" "She's crisscrossing the country, on hunts on her own." "Oh. That's interesting." As a general rule, writers try to always cut bald exposition like that, perhaps too ruthlessly. But hindsight is 20-20, and I know a lot of fans love Ellen, and we should have at least sent a dispatch explaining where she is and what she's doing. But also for the record, we were in the midst of correcting this oversight when the strike hit — we were breaking a story about the return of Ellen, and what she's been doing, when we were forced to shut down. Hopefully, we'll still get a chance to tell that story, because I do love Ellen and think she's a fascinating character in this world.

I liked Jo. Maybe because I didn't witness , because I was new to the fandom. And because I like her I would like to hear from her again. We don't have to see her, just hear someone say something about her. And why would it have to be Sam or Dean? Ellen! If someone should mention Jo then it's her mom! I miss Ellen. It's nice to know that thy actually tried to slip in a mention of where she is, what she's doing. Reminds me of Alias and Weiss♥. They tried to get Greg Grunberg to come back for a scene or two but they were stupid timing problems because of Heroes...they could have mentioned why Weiss isn't there when he should have been, gah (How many times I've I talked about this now? Haha)!
OMG, Ellen will be back? \o/ It's about time!

Can you take us to hell? Can you envision the show actually going there, maybe with Dean when the deal's up? — write_light
Kripke: I would love to take you to hell, which is the weirdest statement I think I've ever written. But alas, I don't think we'll ever take a trip downstairs, because of purely budgetary reasons. My vision of Supernatural's Hell is a big and grotesque and expensive one — Hieronymus Bosch meets Hellraiser — and on our TV budget, we just don't have the cash to do it right. And our mantra is, if you can't do it right, then don't do it. So Dean may very well be heading to Hell, and we'll talk about it, describe it, tease it, maybe even catch a shadowed glimpse... but we'll never see it full monty. At least until someone gives me the cash to make the Supernatural feature film, or the fans organize one mother of a bake sale.

And it was here that I squeed...for reasons you can guess or not. Can you? It's Kripke's first sentence, the last word. Written. What does it mean? It means this is not a transcript. Kripke wrote all that himself and he wrote Henriksen. Finally! Finally I know for sure how his name is spelt!
So...we won't see hell. Which I think means Dean doesn't go to hell. I thought so before, but you can't be sure. I can't imagine having Deanless episodes, so it's save to assume he won't go to hell, yes?

Don't know if this had been asked before but, what's your favorite episode over the three seasons? — supermars
Kripke: I have a few favorites, for different reasons. I liked "Faith" in Season 1, because that was my first glimpse that the show had the potential to go deeper than I had originally thought. I liked "Nightshifter" in Season 2 because it's just a damn good story well told. And I like "A Very Supernatural Christmas" and the upcoming "Mystery Spot" in Season 3, because they so perfectly balance the humor, the scares and the emotion that have become the core elements of our show. (Both were written by our new writer Jeremy Carver, by the Way. He's a keeper). And because it's only fair, here are the episodes I DON'T like: Season 1's "Hookman," "Bugs" and "Route 666"; Season 2's "No Exit"; and Season 3's "Red Sky at Morning." Sometimes, you try things that just don't work at all, and because of our time and budget, you don't have the time to go back and re-do them, you have no choice but to air them in their deformed state, and so you have to live with millions of people watching your mistakes. You have no idea how painful that is.

Heh, it's funny that he dislikes the same episodes as most of fans. His reasons must be different from ours, as someone who works on the show he has a different point of view.

I'm really liking this season so far, but why is it so much brighter than past seasons? — acsgrlie
Kripke: It's amazing. Our fans don't miss a thing. I've read on the boards how many people have noticed the change in our visuals this year. And it's true, we were attempting an adjustment to our creative look. It was very intentional. We wanted to create a more dramatic contrast between the "real" world, in which we all live, and the "secret" supernatural world that exists just beneath the surface. So therefore, when the guys are in diners or motels or bars, it looks more true to life. Like our world. But when they go into a dank basement or haunted house, the look becomes moody, desaturated again. (And if you look back over the Season 3 episodes, the scary parts are as dark as they've ever been). When it was washed out and dark all the time throughout the previous seasons, we felt it might have been too much of a good thing, and numbed the audience. This year's look was an experiment, so when a scene wasn't supposed to be scary, the audience would feel safe and comfortable. But when the story became scary, the look got darker and more ominous. We wanted to see if that would make the scary parts scarier. Now I'm not sure the experiment was entirely successful, and we may correct our course for Season 4, but there was conscious, creative thought behind it, for whatever that's worth.

Yeah, too much of a good thing. Please no course correction, I like it the way it is now! I mean, it was nice too look at the S1 coloring when you haven't started (trying) making icons from it. But then you do and start hating the fudging huge contrast and the missing color. And then you just rewatch an S1 episode, don't even think about making icons but feel so much hate for the coloring!