On Writing (or it's probably another boring post about Harry Potter :)
I cannot concentrate enough to write on one fic alone, so I have been continuing a Snarry which is actually a crossover with BBC Merlin (I know it sounds strange, but it is really quite a lot of fun!).
I am writing another Snarry which is a bit more serious and a bit sad, and I have been writing a Snupin to take part at this last Snupin Santa.
At this point though it is pretty clear to me that I won't be able to finish. My plot line is too convoluted. I have too many characters already and no real focus. I am still undecided about one major character's appearance (how, when, why, where?). I am not sure from which vantage point to tell it. I have not even found a proper tone of the fic, a voice that I can hear in my mind.
It's like that house party you throw for three friends and suddenly the whole town turns up. I planned something quiet between Snape, Remus and Sirius, but instead there are Lily and James and Peter(yes!) and Dumbledore and Harry and of course Voldemort.
I still haven't found a starting point yet, which is immensely important for me. Without a starting point I am a bit lost. I am at the moment fiddling with the middlepart, and as always I know exactly where it will end. So the end is never the problem-My fics mostly start with the end. I usually even write the end first and then I add pieces to it, at least all my fics in HP fandom. (Strangely I work completely differently in the Avengers Fandom)
In truth I haven't been working on it since this weekend, because I am at a point (as I often am) where it needs to be completely re-written, or it becomes an epic novel. I could, to keep it brief, jump over well twenty years, then use flashbacks, but somehow I feel that is not going to do the story justice. It is probably going to be one of my last fics in HP fandom, so I don't want to compromise on it.
I am sad and very sorry about not being part of Snupin Santa, but then I wasn't part of the first fests anyway, wasn't an integral part of Snupin fandom (what with my leanings towards Snack and Snarry and so on) anyway and I think if I finish this one in piece I can still post it on AO3 and hope that one or two of my most loyal friends will have the patience to read it.
So yes. To get me in the mood for writing HP again I have looked at a lot of old favourites again.
It's strange to delve into HP again, after such a long time (for me three years are a long time, since I've only been in fandom since 2008). I was partly re-reading fics again-Fabula Rasa (remember her Snacks? Gorgeous!), Emily Waters (she wrote an EPIC slave!Snape fic and I was addicted to it!), someone named Corvinus or Corvin (they wrote a dark, interesting Snarry timeturner fic which I remember for its sad, melancholic tone and great use of the song Miss American Pie), another writer whose names was, I think, Svartal (they wrote a fic based on a Dumas novel) of course Rinsbane's wonderful Snarries (remember the one where Harry wears dresses and Snape smokes? And that one where she takes mpreg and literally re-defines it), Schemingreader's writing (whose Snupins are one of the best! Remember the one where Snape and Lupin are living in a shtetl?) and OMG, Acciosnape's uber-funny Snape and Snarry cartoons?
I was literally swept away with emotions and memories.
I might have mentioned this in another post, but one strange thing about being in HP again is also, that I can see how much has changed, how small the community has become. I am glad to see some familiar faces, some people who keep writing ficlets and drabbles and posting art-it helps keeping the illusion that some things never change and I can always come back.
Of course I also feel that there will always be a core of people, very much like in Star trek fandom, that will always be here, no matter what-which is what makes a fandom feel a bit like home. It's true that HP fandom is special (every fandom is special I know), but the special thing about HP is this rich universe JKR created, which she left incomplete-maybe on purpose or maybe because she ran out of time or out of motivation or a combination of all three. There are so many fascinating aspects and characters, and almost all of them are flawed-flawed enough for us to want to improve them but fascinating enough for us to empathise with them. Even the most petty of her villains have redeeming points. Even the most heroic of her protagonists reveal an ability for pettiness, arrogance, violence, cowardliness.
So. Enough of the rambling. And back to the writing.
Drop me a few words. Are any of you writing new stuff? How about HP? Any of you writing/drawing in HP fandom still?
I am writing another Snarry which is a bit more serious and a bit sad, and I have been writing a Snupin to take part at this last Snupin Santa.
At this point though it is pretty clear to me that I won't be able to finish. My plot line is too convoluted. I have too many characters already and no real focus. I am still undecided about one major character's appearance (how, when, why, where?). I am not sure from which vantage point to tell it. I have not even found a proper tone of the fic, a voice that I can hear in my mind.
It's like that house party you throw for three friends and suddenly the whole town turns up. I planned something quiet between Snape, Remus and Sirius, but instead there are Lily and James and Peter(yes!) and Dumbledore and Harry and of course Voldemort.
I still haven't found a starting point yet, which is immensely important for me. Without a starting point I am a bit lost. I am at the moment fiddling with the middlepart, and as always I know exactly where it will end. So the end is never the problem-My fics mostly start with the end. I usually even write the end first and then I add pieces to it, at least all my fics in HP fandom. (Strangely I work completely differently in the Avengers Fandom)
In truth I haven't been working on it since this weekend, because I am at a point (as I often am) where it needs to be completely re-written, or it becomes an epic novel. I could, to keep it brief, jump over well twenty years, then use flashbacks, but somehow I feel that is not going to do the story justice. It is probably going to be one of my last fics in HP fandom, so I don't want to compromise on it.
I am sad and very sorry about not being part of Snupin Santa, but then I wasn't part of the first fests anyway, wasn't an integral part of Snupin fandom (what with my leanings towards Snack and Snarry and so on) anyway and I think if I finish this one in piece I can still post it on AO3 and hope that one or two of my most loyal friends will have the patience to read it.
So yes. To get me in the mood for writing HP again I have looked at a lot of old favourites again.
It's strange to delve into HP again, after such a long time (for me three years are a long time, since I've only been in fandom since 2008). I was partly re-reading fics again-Fabula Rasa (remember her Snacks? Gorgeous!), Emily Waters (she wrote an EPIC slave!Snape fic and I was addicted to it!), someone named Corvinus or Corvin (they wrote a dark, interesting Snarry timeturner fic which I remember for its sad, melancholic tone and great use of the song Miss American Pie), another writer whose names was, I think, Svartal (they wrote a fic based on a Dumas novel) of course Rinsbane's wonderful Snarries (remember the one where Harry wears dresses and Snape smokes? And that one where she takes mpreg and literally re-defines it), Schemingreader's writing (whose Snupins are one of the best! Remember the one where Snape and Lupin are living in a shtetl?) and OMG, Acciosnape's uber-funny Snape and Snarry cartoons?
I was literally swept away with emotions and memories.
I might have mentioned this in another post, but one strange thing about being in HP again is also, that I can see how much has changed, how small the community has become. I am glad to see some familiar faces, some people who keep writing ficlets and drabbles and posting art-it helps keeping the illusion that some things never change and I can always come back.
Of course I also feel that there will always be a core of people, very much like in Star trek fandom, that will always be here, no matter what-which is what makes a fandom feel a bit like home. It's true that HP fandom is special (every fandom is special I know), but the special thing about HP is this rich universe JKR created, which she left incomplete-maybe on purpose or maybe because she ran out of time or out of motivation or a combination of all three. There are so many fascinating aspects and characters, and almost all of them are flawed-flawed enough for us to want to improve them but fascinating enough for us to empathise with them. Even the most petty of her villains have redeeming points. Even the most heroic of her protagonists reveal an ability for pettiness, arrogance, violence, cowardliness.
So. Enough of the rambling. And back to the writing.
Drop me a few words. Are any of you writing new stuff? How about HP? Any of you writing/drawing in HP fandom still?