What I've Been Up To: Is It True He's Mad?
After Some Hopes (for hp_bunintheoven) I barely managed to write anything at all for more than a full month. I did start a Cho/Luna fic in late March, but I gave up the idea to offer it as a treat at Femmefest, and kept adding words to it excruciatingly slowly, with no motivation.
Most of my free time i.e. fiction time was spent on reading a whole (also literary) novel in Modern Greek (a language I studied decades ago, also taught, and translated from back then), and commenting on only a bit of fanfic. Two weeks ago I took part in the Punctuation Mini-Workshop at HP Fanfic Writers' Guild on Discord and managed to work on a Marauders-era scene as an exercise. But post-Azkaban Sirius seems to be the only character who truly resonates with me nowadays...
And my writing has truly diminished - turned into half drabbles! Since the 9th of May I've succeeded in writing fic daily - thanks to the challenge of crafting 50-word pieces based on prompts at Microfic May 2022.
Yes, that is a Tumblr event. A couple of months ago, when seeking motivation, I resorted to that platform, which I had failed to comprehend before. At first I almost exclusively reblogged, and I still have very few followers. But a couple of likes are enough to make the sharing of microfics rewarding. Besides, I post my 50-word pieces on AO3, too, and I've got a DW friend as my lovely loyal reader over there.
Above all, I can't help being happy that those prompt-based pieces are also 50-word chapters that form a Sirius-pov PoA-era story. Amusingly enough, this is the first ever chaptered fic I'm posting on AO3 - my second ever chaptered story! Before this little thing I haven't posted anything as a WiP ever since I finished my very first (and extensive) fic in 2010.
This is the new, humble chaptered fic:
Is It True He's Mad? (here on AO3)
Summary: As if someone had lit a fire ... and the Dementors couldn't destroy it.
So far it's 15 chapters and only 750 words, rated G, and gen (Wolfstar only subtly).