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What is Harry Potter “canon”?

The Pottermore conundrum for fanfic writers.
My "take" on the new character information coming out of Pottermore, posted over on my MMADfan blog.


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I was still reeling from having read Deathly Hallows in a marathon reading session a little over a week before, and was recovering from my shock and disappointment. As I was reading, I kept waiting for the book to get better, kept waiting for it to feel like the Harry Potter series I had come to know and love . . .

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Wishing I were River Song . . . LOL!

Thinking of memes . . .

Polishing and tweaking my website . . .

and otherwise not doing any writing!

Nine-fingered typing . . .

I usually type using all ten fingers, as I learned to touch-type many (many!) years ago on an old IBM electric typewriter. Generally, that’s a good thing, and I rarely even think about what my fingers are doing as I write, but when I injured one of my fingers last weekend, I found myself hampered and spent most of ( Read more... )

From Steven Fry:

I’m an optimist and tend to believe the best in people, but there are unquestionably some grotesque and vile figures out there. If ever you have the misfortune to meet one, Jonathan, never ever be afraid to use Twitter’s block option. You won’t see their tweets and they won’t see yours. There’s nothing they can do about it and ( Read more... )

I've decided that the month of November, I'll be devoting most (if not all) of my writing time to NaNoWriMo. This will not only give me a block of well-defined time to work on my own original writing, rather than derivative fanfic, but it will also help me to decide what to do with the fanfiction that I have currently in progress.

I'll no doubt ( Read more... )

Saw this over on the petulantpoetess  LJ, and had to pass on the pleasure!

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I spent a good deal of the evening working on A Long Vernal Season, and it felt quite good to get back into it again. Much of it was just tweaking and adding bits to already-written chapters in Part Seven, but I also picked up the chapter where I'd left off writing and have almost finished a draft of it. It felt as though it had been ages since I'd ( Read more... )

I'm home again after a few weeks away visiting family, so although I can't promise that updates to my WIP, A Long Vernal Season, will return to the break-neck pace they saw in November and December, I hope they will be a bit more predictable and regular.

I also hope, though I can't promise, that my enthusiasm for the story -- both writing it and ( Read more... )