Featured Submission for April: Seven Years and a Day by DarkRose
Hi there! I'm Rose, author of Seven Years and a Day. I am still a bit shocked that my story was chosen as a featured submission on H&V. I'm probably too used to being an obscure fanficcer who writes most of her stories in a language nobody reads (French! Gasp!) and doesn't know anyone in the fandom anyway. But it's a great pleasure to be here! And
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On this - we agree:
"Ron is a character that tends to get bashed quite a lot in dramione, because of his canon relationship with Hermione, and when that happens, it throws me right out of the story. To me, characterization is the core of a story, and if the characters feel alien, the story stops working for me." There is no reason people can't move on maturely - especially given time. I hate a broken-beyond-repair Ron and Hermione.
This is a very intriguing concept to me, too:
"There are two stories happening in parallel. The first is Draco and Hermione's story, realizing that their marriage is a failure, recognizing their feelings for each other, and finding a way to reclaim their life on their own terms. The second is the story of the whole wizarding world, watching the patchy agreements, the puppet government, and the short-sighted laws that have been keeping them together for the past seven years crumble apart, and having to challenge them and build them anew." What a challenging thing to do - to clean up such a mess - and what an interesting story.
Was this story easy or hard to write for you? Did you have these ideas set as what you wanted to explore from the start or were they something that evolved? :)
Congrats, again!!
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Me too! I also hate it when other friendships are broken. There's no need to estrange Hermione from all her friends to make D/Hr happen.
Some parts of the story were very easy to write, others were hard. There were some scenes that were very clear in my mind from the very beginning, and others that sprung up fully formed as I moved along, and those were both easy and satisfying. But there were also times when I realized that the story had taken a different turn than I had planned and I had to work through it to figure out what it would look like. That was harder, but it also made the story much better than if I had stuck with my original plan.
For example, the characterization I had for Hermione in the very first scene was initially going to stay pretty much the same throughout, mostly because I hadn't given it much thought. But I quickly realized that this Hermione was not the kind of person I wanted to write about, and so I forced her to change. That's where the whole background plot took shape, and I'm really glad it did.
Thank you so much for your thoughts! I love discussing these things.
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