HANDS OFF!!

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Given this post by ginny_weasley31 that some on Potter Place are seeking to compile lists of "abandoned" stories to complete--and some members are supporting the idea that if they don't hear back from the author they're going to consider permission implied.

Well, just in case, because I'm not sure anyone is interested in my little ol' WIP.

1) Book of Shadows

Comments

[e_danae]

What a strange idea. Do they really suppose this will make fandom better and happier place? I think it's unpardonable to take over others fic without the original author permission. Permission, declared and clear, is probably the key word here. Everything is ok when author is ok with it - everything is wrong if she's not.

And yes, I'm glad to hear that BoS is not an abandoned fic!

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Everything is ok when author is ok with it - everything is wrong if she's not.

Amen.

And I shudder at who might take some of the fics over. Anyone who doesn't respect authorship--I'm not sanguine of their talents. I don't want to see anyone complete Thirty Pieces other than you and Wade!

And yes, I'm glad to hear that BoS is not an abandoned fic!

It's hard. I have several problems. I feel I've grown as a writer, there are things I'm tied to in it I wouldn't do now, it's hard for me to read it over w/o cringing, I'm not as comfy as I was when I started it with Student/Teacher and Hermione being so young (it was my first HP fic, and back then I was under the spell of authors like Caeria and KazVL and Helga Von Nutwhimple.)

But it's my first and only longfic, and I don't want to leave it unfinished.

[kribu]

I really do hope you'll finish BoS some day, if you find it in yourself to do so.

I've been avoiding reading it, just because at this point, I'd hate to get into a fic and not be able to finish it. (I can take that risk with ongoing WIPs, especially those recently updated, but it's harder to start reading something written longer ago and knowing it's in danger of ending up unfinished.) It sounds rather like my cup of tea though. *g*

[harmony_bites]

I've been avoiding reading it, just because at this point, I'd hate to get into a fic and not be able to finish it

I understand--completely. I don't even try WIPs until they reach 40K and won't rec them on KIA unless they reach that, feel as if they're really, really worth reading even if never finished, and preferably are recently and constantly updating.

I've even given up reading updates of Pet Project and old favorite I fangirl hard. I'm waiting now for it to complete.

It sounds rather like my cup of tea though. *g*

LOL. It's 6th year Student/Teacher, following HBP canon, so I just bet it would be.

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I'd say review--but to be honest I can't promise. There are just a lot of problems continuing. My last update was weeks before my mother died, and ever since then I've had issues of concentrating on fic and writing anything extended. Also, it was the very first HP fic I ever wrote (as far as I know, the first to ever try filling in the space between HBP in the ship). That means it's 4 years old, and I feel I've grown as a writer since then--rerreading it kinda makes me cringe--I'd do things very different. Plus fics like Second Life and Camerado have done it so well, it's hard to feel I have much to contribute.

Then there's just that back then I was under the spell of Caeria, KazVL, Helga and others--but over time I've been more uncomfy with writing a fic where Hermione is so young yet romantically involved with Snape.

Doesn't help also that I started out with Fatherly!Dumbledore and DH (and Second Life) has rather put paid to that.

So, we'll see.

[harmony_bites]

What drew me into SSHG was Falling Further In, which is a student/teacher fic. I truly fell in love with that vision of Snape, in a way I can't explain or really experienced with even profic; I think she hit my buttons in a lot of different ways. One of them certainly, and she's rather unusual if not unique in the ship with that, is that she showed Snape as a fierce protector of the Slytherins, one that cares for them--and they care back. And she built it very much on canon, using details like the time the Slytherins were hissed at, for instance, to flip your perceptions of how Rowling depicted them--and Snape.

And that fic was student/teacher. So was Caeria's Pet Project which was brilliant at spinning some of Snape's behavior as a teacher, how there might be method in his madness.

And don't faint, but probably my third biggest influence was a MLC, Helga's The Meeting of the Minds, also abandoned. Another student/teacher. Helga, btw, is someone who has said on both her FFN profile and her LJ that she wants to be left alone about