Quarterly Update
Can't believe it's been as long as it has since I've updated this space. Of course, I'm not surprised as real life has firmly established it's pre-eminence over the realm of fan fiction. Fortunately, I've taken some time recently to start working on the story again, and about ten days ago I published chapter twelve.
The credit for this probably should go to my grammar beta Lisa for sending me an email saying... "do you still need me?" To which I realized I'd better be more conscientious to those who are helping me with this story, and that entails doing things like sending chapters that I published in January to grammar betas by the end of June.
After Lisa finished editing eleven, I decided that the scene I had been debating over whether to write or not needed to just be cut, and thus ended several months of paralysis over what was truly a minor issue.
Chapter Twelve then went up on AFC and was sent to Lisa, and I posted it about ten days ago.
Several (two) weddings ensued, and now it's Sunday and I find myself in Panera Bread with my laptop, and the desire to get moving on the half-way finished chapter thirteen.
The most common feedback on twelve was: "I wish you'd shown the scene with the Prime Minister." To which I reply: "I've been thinking about that scene for several months... and absolutely nothing of import seems to come of it. When I do decide what happens, then I can fill in the blanks, but I really don't know what happened in there yet... and the whole meeting with the Muggle PM was more geared toward a possible sequel than anything else... a sequel I have become more and more certain will not be written."
The other response I've got a lot was, "It's an interesting direction to have the Muggles considering assassinating Harry." To which I reply. "It most certainly is. Now please see my above comments about a sequel... but in light of that, I will endeavor to find a few more openings to develop that part of the plotline. It really does have some interesting possibilities."
In other fan fic news, I just recently finished reading "A Serpents Sacrifice" by Gabillian. Interesting, decent fic. I wondered at various points of the story about how old Gabillian might be as an author. She (I'm guessing) is fairly young and her writing holds promise, but there were several points where I felt the writing was "immature..." and that title I think has more to do with experience as a writer than actual age... but is also something that might be correlated more closely with age. All-in-all, however, the story was a good fic in the genre of an honest guess at what could happen in book seven. Although I've tired of that genre mostly, I still enjoyed the story on the whole, and will recommend it here.
Aight. Time to stop delaying, and time to start writing.
Peace,
Byron
The credit for this probably should go to my grammar beta Lisa for sending me an email saying... "do you still need me?" To which I realized I'd better be more conscientious to those who are helping me with this story, and that entails doing things like sending chapters that I published in January to grammar betas by the end of June.
After Lisa finished editing eleven, I decided that the scene I had been debating over whether to write or not needed to just be cut, and thus ended several months of paralysis over what was truly a minor issue.
Chapter Twelve then went up on AFC and was sent to Lisa, and I posted it about ten days ago.
Several (two) weddings ensued, and now it's Sunday and I find myself in Panera Bread with my laptop, and the desire to get moving on the half-way finished chapter thirteen.
The most common feedback on twelve was: "I wish you'd shown the scene with the Prime Minister." To which I reply: "I've been thinking about that scene for several months... and absolutely nothing of import seems to come of it. When I do decide what happens, then I can fill in the blanks, but I really don't know what happened in there yet... and the whole meeting with the Muggle PM was more geared toward a possible sequel than anything else... a sequel I have become more and more certain will not be written."
The other response I've got a lot was, "It's an interesting direction to have the Muggles considering assassinating Harry." To which I reply. "It most certainly is. Now please see my above comments about a sequel... but in light of that, I will endeavor to find a few more openings to develop that part of the plotline. It really does have some interesting possibilities."
In other fan fic news, I just recently finished reading "A Serpents Sacrifice" by Gabillian. Interesting, decent fic. I wondered at various points of the story about how old Gabillian might be as an author. She (I'm guessing) is fairly young and her writing holds promise, but there were several points where I felt the writing was "immature..." and that title I think has more to do with experience as a writer than actual age... but is also something that might be correlated more closely with age. All-in-all, however, the story was a good fic in the genre of an honest guess at what could happen in book seven. Although I've tired of that genre mostly, I still enjoyed the story on the whole, and will recommend it here.
Aight. Time to stop delaying, and time to start writing.
Peace,
Byron