yay! dramione post.
So, recently I've been re-reading my Draco/Hermione fanfic, Water.
The aim is to tidy it up, send it off to jenl3227 and dianoram (who, unrelated to being my betas, are two fantastic people that I'm very pleased to have met), and then post the revamped versions online.
ANYWAY, I have a question:
Has anyone else got a story or a piece of art that they've ( Read more... )
The aim is to tidy it up, send it off to jenl3227 and dianoram (who, unrelated to being my betas, are two fantastic people that I'm very pleased to have met), and then post the revamped versions online.
ANYWAY, I have a question:
Has anyone else got a story or a piece of art that they've ( Read more... )
While I was 16 at the time (I think - 17 at most) and thus an angsty teenager, I still don't remember feeling particularly bad enough around the time of writing it to warrant such a need for an angsty outlet. In fact, I remember the early August morning as being very calm and quiet, for everyone else still laid sleeping. I can still remember how the rising sun streamed in through the partly closed window blinds in the living room, all the way across the floor of the kitchen and to where I sat at the kitchen table. (Which is odd in itself, that I remember, but that's not for here.) And yet, despite all of that yellowness (our kitchen is really yellow and happy), I wrote a dark fic. Or, dark for me anyway.
Anyway, I don't know if immersed would be the right word for me with writing HST, because it's a one shot and not a very long one at that. It was more of a moment. But yes, I've been there. I can hardly believe I wrote it sometimes - especially not at that age.
In other news, I am happy to hear that you're going through it and I hope it'll inspire your muse in general.
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Uh. I haven't read a Dramione fic in what feels like forever. Yours has made me want to read more! If only I had the bloody time. I need to learn to distract myself with better things (like fanfic!) -- rather than the pointless things, like I seem to be doing nowadays.
ANYWAY, I'm straying off-topic. I like the way you described the setting to you writing the story. I can very much see it. And because it's such a grey and miserable day here, I want to be in your kitchen!! Whenever I write Water, I'm almost always at home with my parents, rather than at my flat in London. Usually because the work pressure varies between the two places. I also never write over summer, despite having more time to do so. Maybe the cold winter months have something to do with all the angst!!
Once again, I'm glad whatever it was in you wrote Her Silent Tears. It was so sad and yet in a twisted way kind of hopeful at the same time.
Hope you're feeling a bit better (because I know you haven't been very well). =)
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I am right now reading a lot of old Spike/Buffy stories from way back when, and I can tell you there's not enough hours in the day for me to have time to read them all - even if I've already read them at least once before. The good thing about me already knowing them though is that I can skip paragraphs and skim over stuff to save time. It would've been better if I was all over Dramione right now instead, as I am to write a Draco BB story about them and I'm just not in the right mindset for it - but the heart wants what it wants and right now it demands Spuffy. :P
I've never thought about where I write better or if I write better in summer or winter. I have learned though, that as much as I dislike writing by hand, the words tend to flow a bit better - perhaps because I just write and I don't stop until the scene ends or my head is empty of more for the story, and I don't edit it until I type it up, at which point some time will have passed and I can look at it with a more critical eye. I don't often write by hand though - mostly if I don't have access to a computer and I pretty much always do - but it's something I've been thinking of starting to do more. It could also have something to do with the fact that when I'm writing by hand, I'm just writing - no distractions in the notepad itself - but when I'm on the computer and I'm writing, I can chat and I can reply to LJ comments (as I'm doing now when I have a doc open for a story due in a few days) so I really should probably think about writing by hand more often. The dangers with this though is that once I've written down a scene, it's finished for me - it's done and it's gone. Unless the scene/story is for a longer story or to be posted because it's for someone/has a due date, then it can stay in the notepad, completely forgotten, for ages - because once it's out of my head (be it computer or paper) it's out of my mind.
I am right now sitting in the kitchen actually and though it's dark outside, it's very bright and happy - it's something more recent that I've started, because I didn't have a laptop before. Back when I wrote HST, the computer (we only had one back then, oh the horror) was standing on our kitchen table because we were doing some remodelling to the living room where it usually sat. I like sitting in other places than my room, especially when I'm writing - it's less distracting and the whole change of scenery thing really does work, at least for me (some of the time). I imagine that's what you're feeling with the your flat vs your parents. Plus, my desk is facing the wall - the kitchen table isn't quite as close to one so I have more... air? I don't know how to explain it, but I'm not feeling as closed in here as I might do in my own room - even though my room is larger than the nook where we have the table.
Ok, very long so I'll stop now. LOL. I am feeling better now, thank you. Still not fully better so I'm going to take it easy and stay out of the cold for a while longer so I don't get sick immediately again, but I am no longer in pain or feeling feverish. And thank you again for your kind words regarding HST. I can't wait to read Water - I've not done so yet because I wanted to wait for it to be finished and with you doing an edit of it, I think maybe I'll wait until you've completed them.
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Anyway, in reference to what you were saying about writing fics by hand, I would love to be able to do that. Mainly because it will constitute time away from a computer screen. But I always find the words don't flow as easily. I guess it's because I can't handwrite anywhere near as fast as I can type. So when I'm typing a story, I get to write the words as I think them, without delay. It just seems to develop better for me because of that. I can understand why you like handwriting, though. Because -- you're right -- one can get too distracted by the possibility of editing everything as you go along.
You're also right about the change of scenery. It helps me so much. Not just with writing but also with working in general. It just seems to recharge my concentration a bit, even though I'm still staring at the same laptop.
I'm a massive believer of different rooms carrying different feelings. Regardless of size. I do think it's a lot about natural light, and also colour. Yellow is such a lovely colour for a kitchen. In fact, our kitchen (in my flat) is yellow. And I really like it because of that.
I can never sit at a desk facing a wall, either. It has to be buy a window. Or at least against a mirror. I feel too closed in otherwise, since it feels like I spend so much time at my desk working.
It would definitely be a good idea to wait for the completion of Water. It will be much tidier then than it is now!
Glad to hear you're feeling better. I hope the cold weather lets up soon, so that you don't risk getting ill again.
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I know what you mean about not writing as fast by hand as you do by computer - but I find it easier to just write a note to remind myself of an idea or a word to be used later (or edit in) in the margin of a paper, which is not as easily done on computer -- usually then I end up writing it on a post-it and my desk is too full of them already. :P
What I like about writing by hand and then typing it on the computer is that when I edit, because I do, it's easier to remember where I am instead of when I do it from another computer doc. Ok, to explain - I write a scene/story/whatever, and then when I edit it, I don't edit it in the same doc - I write it over in a separate doc, and I keep the two side by side. My screen is large enough that it's not really a problem to do this, but for editing purposes, I find it easier to have the original on real paper - be it handwritten or printed.
My future kitchen is going to be yellow too - I can't imagine any other colour. Yellow and white.
Thank you. I'm hoping too. :)
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