Inevitable is a habit I never want to break, and poll
Good god. I find it appalling, absolutely appalling, that I only put out three chapters of Inevitable in 2007. How do you people stand me?
I've been writing this story for over three years. That's right, the first chapter was posted on Feb. 2, 2005. Some of my friends have children younger than that.
So, 10 factoids as I prepare to write this story to the bitter end (or why Mhalachai should never admit to the haphazard way she plots)
1. I've learned to never mix first-person POV (Anita) and third-person-limited POV (Harry) ever. again.
2. In the first draft of Inevitable, Anita was pregnant.
3. The idea to make Damian into Harry's grandfather didn't occur to me until I was midway through chapter five.
4. I never even thought of going Anita/Harry in this story, even though there's that whole ardeur thing. He's still seventeen and she's twenty-seven and to me (currently twenty-nine), that's beyond squicky.
5. I did, however, plan the slashy goodness between Harry and Nathaniel from an early stage.
5a. And as I grow older, a little Harry/Asher is appealing, instead of appalling.
6. The most annoying part of this story (as a writer) is the contrived way in which I got rid of the Dursleys. Looking back, it could have done a whole lot better.
7. In this story, Anita/Richard aren't all that dysfunctional simply because I can't stand whiny Richard.
8. After 75 chapters, I still have no idea what to do with Micah.
9. After writing this story, Harry/Luna/Ginny have become my OT3 forever. Seriously, how awesome can they be?
10. Elsa was originally going to appear in exactly one scene. And then she exploded into my mind as a full character. In my head, Reece has a total crush on her, which is entirely disturbing.
And because my mind is hard-wired to cross things over, a Poll on Inevitable, Torchwood and the inevitable inescapable inexorable predictable crossover:
Poll Because we all love crossovers (well, you're at my lj, aren't you?)
I've been writing this story for over three years. That's right, the first chapter was posted on Feb. 2, 2005. Some of my friends have children younger than that.
So, 10 factoids as I prepare to write this story to the bitter end (or why Mhalachai should never admit to the haphazard way she plots)
1. I've learned to never mix first-person POV (Anita) and third-person-limited POV (Harry) ever. again.
2. In the first draft of Inevitable, Anita was pregnant.
3. The idea to make Damian into Harry's grandfather didn't occur to me until I was midway through chapter five.
4. I never even thought of going Anita/Harry in this story, even though there's that whole ardeur thing. He's still seventeen and she's twenty-seven and to me (currently twenty-nine), that's beyond squicky.
5. I did, however, plan the slashy goodness between Harry and Nathaniel from an early stage.
5a. And as I grow older, a little Harry/Asher is appealing, instead of appalling.
6. The most annoying part of this story (as a writer) is the contrived way in which I got rid of the Dursleys. Looking back, it could have done a whole lot better.
7. In this story, Anita/Richard aren't all that dysfunctional simply because I can't stand whiny Richard.
8. After 75 chapters, I still have no idea what to do with Micah.
9. After writing this story, Harry/Luna/Ginny have become my OT3 forever. Seriously, how awesome can they be?
10. Elsa was originally going to appear in exactly one scene. And then she exploded into my mind as a full character. In my head, Reece has a total crush on her, which is entirely disturbing.
And because my mind is hard-wired to cross things over, a Poll on Inevitable, Torchwood and the inevitable inescapable inexorable predictable crossover:
Poll Because we all love crossovers (well, you're at my lj, aren't you?)