On writing 'Tonks' Tale'
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Two years (and 2 days) ago I started posting on Fanfiction.net what I thought would be a somewhat long series of drabbles on Nymphadora Tonks' life. I knew it would be a bit longer than the other stories I had posted so far. Definitely, I could have never foreseen how so.
The day before yesterday I posted the last chapter, the 100th. The chapters are not extremely long, but they are not drabbles either. So, we are talking about the longest thing I've ever written.
Some of the chapters were difficult to write. Especially after some weeks of writers block. I am planning to go back and check every one of them - as I have been doing lately - to make them more... "alive". In most chapters, though, I had the feeling somebody else was telling the story to me. They were not only easy to write, they wrote on their own accord; sometimes I was even surprised of how things were turning out while I was writing them.
What a busy couple of years! When I started, I was single, living on my my own, renting a room in Italy and working on my PhD research. Now I'm married, I've recently got the PhD degree and am finally back, living in my lovely home town.
Sometimes it seemed that Tonks was growing up with me. There are definitely parts of my life in her tale, but I have tried my best to hide them well. I do hope they were not too evident. The wedding chapters, for instance, have a lot to do with my own wedding: some of what I wrote was just like it, while other parts were exactly the opposite. One thing is for sure, I never ever could have guessed, when I started writing her first dialogue with Sirius (chapter one) that I would be getting married at the same time I had to write her doing it.
I was checking on the reviews page yesterday. I wonder what happened with the people who reviewed first ant to those who appeared short time ago. I am not asking here why have not they posted any longer, not at all. I am wondering about their lives. When I started, I had a beta, ten years younger than me. I told her yesterday the story was finished and she was surprised about the time passed ever since. For somebody that young, two years are a huge portion of her life. I'm not old (yet), but it was not that dramatic in my case. Still, two years is an important amount of time.
I am going to miss writing "Tonks' Tale". I will work on her companion story "Lupin's Tale" but still, I very much doubt it will accompany me the way Tonks' did.
I am truly thankful to every single person that ever clicked that story, to those who read random chapters of it and, especially, to those who read it all and left reviews. There are three particular thoroughly reviewers who usually make me think and even go back and correct mistakes I might have missed. I am going to miss them as well. I also thank my beta, even though we parted ways sometime around chapter 40. I have learned a lot from Potted Lilies and I do not know if I would have finish the tale at all if she had not been so supportive at the beginning.
And of course, I must thank my Broder and occasional beta. I know for a fact that without him I would have not been able to finish it and consequently, I would have never realised how much I enjoy writing.
Cheers!
Two years (and 2 days) ago I started posting on Fanfiction.net what I thought would be a somewhat long series of drabbles on Nymphadora Tonks' life. I knew it would be a bit longer than the other stories I had posted so far. Definitely, I could have never foreseen how so.
The day before yesterday I posted the last chapter, the 100th. The chapters are not extremely long, but they are not drabbles either. So, we are talking about the longest thing I've ever written.
Some of the chapters were difficult to write. Especially after some weeks of writers block. I am planning to go back and check every one of them - as I have been doing lately - to make them more... "alive". In most chapters, though, I had the feeling somebody else was telling the story to me. They were not only easy to write, they wrote on their own accord; sometimes I was even surprised of how things were turning out while I was writing them.
What a busy couple of years! When I started, I was single, living on my my own, renting a room in Italy and working on my PhD research. Now I'm married, I've recently got the PhD degree and am finally back, living in my lovely home town.
Sometimes it seemed that Tonks was growing up with me. There are definitely parts of my life in her tale, but I have tried my best to hide them well. I do hope they were not too evident. The wedding chapters, for instance, have a lot to do with my own wedding: some of what I wrote was just like it, while other parts were exactly the opposite. One thing is for sure, I never ever could have guessed, when I started writing her first dialogue with Sirius (chapter one) that I would be getting married at the same time I had to write her doing it.
I was checking on the reviews page yesterday. I wonder what happened with the people who reviewed first ant to those who appeared short time ago. I am not asking here why have not they posted any longer, not at all. I am wondering about their lives. When I started, I had a beta, ten years younger than me. I told her yesterday the story was finished and she was surprised about the time passed ever since. For somebody that young, two years are a huge portion of her life. I'm not old (yet), but it was not that dramatic in my case. Still, two years is an important amount of time.
I am going to miss writing "Tonks' Tale". I will work on her companion story "Lupin's Tale" but still, I very much doubt it will accompany me the way Tonks' did.
I am truly thankful to every single person that ever clicked that story, to those who read random chapters of it and, especially, to those who read it all and left reviews. There are three particular thoroughly reviewers who usually make me think and even go back and correct mistakes I might have missed. I am going to miss them as well. I also thank my beta, even though we parted ways sometime around chapter 40. I have learned a lot from Potted Lilies and I do not know if I would have finish the tale at all if she had not been so supportive at the beginning.
And of course, I must thank my Broder and occasional beta. I know for a fact that without him I would have not been able to finish it and consequently, I would have never realised how much I enjoy writing.
Cheers!