at least I'm thinking about writing, even if no writing is actually happening
I am always torn between 'stay far far away from writing HP fic because it is difficult and you will never get anything done and it will EAT YOUR SOUL' and 'happy shiny BFF plotbunnies, yaaay!' Like, right now I want to write ace Hermione/Dean where they go out on friend-dates and talk about the news and sing off-key about how their milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard (and then they have to throw them off for trespassing) and he gives her sketches and she gives him little tiny incredibly cool devices made of amazingly complex magic and bits of scrap metal.
Only it wants a plot, now that I've actually started thinking about the damn thing seriously. BOTHER. And the Modern World Club thing with the Hufflepuffs and the Slytherins has decided it wants to have OCs for main characters, because it's more probable that something like that would get started by older students who are already close rather than fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds already busy with Dumbledore's Army and Harry Potter Drama. (Oh, Zacharias. *fond*) Two siblings in different houses + their closest friend(s), maybe. Easier to stagger the ages, too, because I wouldn't have to hunt around as much for named characters in different years for them to drag in as they decided they wanted more new people to hang out with. Plus the mere fact of having a younger/older sibling would mean they'd be more likely to have friends in their year.
Which means coming up with NAMES and BACKGROUNDS and IDENTITIES. And lots of them, too, since we're staggering the ages of the characters. Oog.
Does anyone care if I totally ignore timelines? Because I just do not know enough about what existed and didn't exist sixteen years ago, and if I spend any time at all researching it I will not go back to this story for like a year and a half. (I know what I am like, okay. I still can't go back to Knife & Ink before I find some good resources on Korean and Chinese folklore and finish that one big book about ayakashi and read more of Nurarihyon no Mago. ARGH.)
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Only it wants a plot, now that I've actually started thinking about the damn thing seriously. BOTHER. And the Modern World Club thing with the Hufflepuffs and the Slytherins has decided it wants to have OCs for main characters, because it's more probable that something like that would get started by older students who are already close rather than fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds already busy with Dumbledore's Army and Harry Potter Drama. (Oh, Zacharias. *fond*) Two siblings in different houses + their closest friend(s), maybe. Easier to stagger the ages, too, because I wouldn't have to hunt around as much for named characters in different years for them to drag in as they decided they wanted more new people to hang out with. Plus the mere fact of having a younger/older sibling would mean they'd be more likely to have friends in their year.
Which means coming up with NAMES and BACKGROUNDS and IDENTITIES. And lots of them, too, since we're staggering the ages of the characters. Oog.
Does anyone care if I totally ignore timelines? Because I just do not know enough about what existed and didn't exist sixteen years ago, and if I spend any time at all researching it I will not go back to this story for like a year and a half. (I know what I am like, okay. I still can't go back to Knife & Ink before I find some good resources on Korean and Chinese folklore and finish that one big book about ayakashi and read more of Nurarihyon no Mago. ARGH.)
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