Still Alive, and Jane's Still Improving....
My Dear Friends,
You've a right to be put-off. It's been too long. Today, I just got a back-channel message from brightfeather wondering whether I was all right, and how Jane was, and I realized that I must post something short -- at least short for me.
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You've a right to be put-off. It's been too long. Today, I just got a back-channel message from brightfeather wondering whether I was all right, and how Jane was, and I realized that I must post something short -- at least short for me.
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Links to my new fanfic. Oh, dear: you know how I am with links. They're all on lj, on harry_and_ron. (I did warn you, didn't I, that I was trying out a *ahem* challenging ship. But I find, even there, and even when I write sex scenes -- well, I'm just not your typical ship-fic writer, even when I have tried to ship it. I fear the usual shipper's concerns don't hold my fancy enough to guide the story. So even in a fairly obscure shipdom, I'm a fairly obscure writer, at best, I suspect, more often "admired" than read.
When you get to harry_and_ron, you can just click on their community archive. I'm avus there, too. If you have problems, let me know, and I'll try to bring together.... I have an idea. Let me see if I can pull it off.
My first H/R was a last-Christmas, only through HBP fic, "Give My Heart":
Link to Chapter 1
Link to Chapter 2
Link to Chapter 3
Link to Epilogue
I decided to continue on in that story's 'verse, only a year later, with Happy Christmas, Dan. So far I've posted two of the three chapters, with my third chapter, by far the most "challenging", currently at my beta's & my gay-picker's:
Chapter 1, War is not Good for Children
Chapter 2, Me 'n You 'n Christmas
If you're anxious to finish it, let me know, and I'll ship you a copy of Chapter 3, "Happy Christmas, Dan". You could even do a beta. *grins evilly*
The Big Fic -- and I do mean "BIG" -- is "Be Sifted Through Thy Soul", which has made it to five chapters, some of which are exceedingly lengthy.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3, Part I
Chapter 3, Part II
Chapter 4, Part I
Chapter 4, Part II
Chapter 5, Part I
Chapter 5, Part II
Chapter 5, Part III
And that's certainly more than you'll ever want to read. If you have trouble w/ my links, just email me, and I'll send you the word files.
Hope things are going well with you. You are certainly in my thoughts, dear Nat.
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But after reading around in a bunch of ships -- Ron/Hermione & Ginny/Harry being the main ones, -- they seemed, well, a bit dull, not at all dealing with the grand struggles, unless terribly forced or pushing love into the background. Pleasant, yes, and often well-written, but.... That, and the stories written seemed already to say what was there.
So I decided I'd stretch myself, and so I dipped into the classic slash: Harry/Draco. But I just can't believe that one. It never seemed natural. And a ship centered on minor characters -- well, that seemed to push away the readership thing that led me to ships in the first place.
Harry/Ron is a friendly ship, with some good writers, yet not too crowded. And so I decided to try it's possibilities. The first one seemed to go well. But, I fear, when I truly took up the writing, late last summer, I found after the second or third chapter that... yes, I'm doing a story closely based on love, and with some real action. But no, I'm not doing a ship-fic, and readership, accordingly, is dwindling. *sigh* But by then, I was into it, for my own story interests, and I will try to see it through.
And you, dear Nat, can tell me whether I've learned anything or whether I was able to pull it off.
Happy Reading!
*grins*
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