The Just Save *Spoiler* Plan to Writing Fanfic
In the wake of HBP, there was the Just Kill Harry Plan - a Guide to Writing Fanfic Post-HBP
These days, with canon closed, >our favorite character dead (or so we are led to believe, but where's the proof?) and fandom contemplating migration, there are two simple things to get your post-DH stories back on track outlined in my newest guide, the Just Save Severus Plan - A Guide to Writing Fanfic Post-DH.
How does it work? you ask. Easy.
Step One: Snake bite, Schmake bite
This is the Save Severus portion of the Just Save Severus plan. We can't have our favorite anti-hero dying such a pathetic death, can we? And with no body to speak of there are endless possibilities. Just get those imaginations rev'ed up and going. And to get you started I have a pre-selected list of possible outs that include:
a. Potions masters always carry around bottles of anti-venom. Or in extreme cases, just shove a bezeor down his throat. Even Harry can manage this bit.
b. Hermione quickly sucks out the venom from the wound. (This easily translates into snogging session once Severus is in the clear.)
c. Snape really is a vampire and everyone knows you can't kill the undead.
d. It was really Snape's evil twin in the Shrieking Shack with the Dark Lord (or for a naughtier story, forget Severus and just go with the evil twin.)
If you're writing a story several years after the fall of Voldemort, just simply insert one of the above statements into your first couple of paragraphs or dialogue.
"I thought you died?" the clerk in Flourish and Blotts asked.
"Oh, no," Severus said. "Lucky for me, Miss Granger was there to suck the venom from the wound." He smiled as he thought about the make-out session that had followed thereafter.
Or...
Snape (who didn't really die in the Shrieking Shack because in this story he is a vampire) poured himself a glass of firewhiskey and contemplated the marriage of Miss Hermione Granger to Ronald Weasley. It was enough to make a person ill. Something would have to be done to rectify the situation.
Step Two: Age statements
Since everyone knows that Hermione is forbidden by law to have sex with anyone until she is eighteen, it is important to include her age whenever possible in your text. No sense, in resurrecting Severus only to have him hauled off to jail in southern California for having sex with a minor in England.
It is a simple and easy task to work these in as demonstrated below.
Hermione (who is eighteen in this story) looked deeply into the eyes of her former professor (who realizes that Hermione is eighteen in this story, even though the age difference still makes him slightly uncomfortable) and then reached out change the bandage on his already healing snake bite. Although she should probably suck on it a little more just to be on the safe side.
Or if you prefer not to use parentheticals, dialogue is another way to slip the information in.
"Miss Granger," Snape hissed. "Just what are you doing?"
"Call me Hermione, Professor," Hermione simpered. "I am twenty-one after all. Three years into my majority if you go by southern Californian standards."
Writing fanfic post-DH? Easy-peasy I say. And I hope you agree. Now get to writing, folks!
These days, with canon closed, >our favorite character dead (or so we are led to believe, but where's the proof?) and fandom contemplating migration, there are two simple things to get your post-DH stories back on track outlined in my newest guide, the Just Save Severus Plan - A Guide to Writing Fanfic Post-DH.
How does it work? you ask. Easy.
Step One: Snake bite, Schmake bite
This is the Save Severus portion of the Just Save Severus plan. We can't have our favorite anti-hero dying such a pathetic death, can we? And with no body to speak of there are endless possibilities. Just get those imaginations rev'ed up and going. And to get you started I have a pre-selected list of possible outs that include:
a. Potions masters always carry around bottles of anti-venom. Or in extreme cases, just shove a bezeor down his throat. Even Harry can manage this bit.
b. Hermione quickly sucks out the venom from the wound. (This easily translates into snogging session once Severus is in the clear.)
c. Snape really is a vampire and everyone knows you can't kill the undead.
d. It was really Snape's evil twin in the Shrieking Shack with the Dark Lord (or for a naughtier story, forget Severus and just go with the evil twin.)
If you're writing a story several years after the fall of Voldemort, just simply insert one of the above statements into your first couple of paragraphs or dialogue.
"I thought you died?" the clerk in Flourish and Blotts asked.
"Oh, no," Severus said. "Lucky for me, Miss Granger was there to suck the venom from the wound." He smiled as he thought about the make-out session that had followed thereafter.
Or...
Snape (who didn't really die in the Shrieking Shack because in this story he is a vampire) poured himself a glass of firewhiskey and contemplated the marriage of Miss Hermione Granger to Ronald Weasley. It was enough to make a person ill. Something would have to be done to rectify the situation.
Step Two: Age statements
Since everyone knows that Hermione is forbidden by law to have sex with anyone until she is eighteen, it is important to include her age whenever possible in your text. No sense, in resurrecting Severus only to have him hauled off to jail in southern California for having sex with a minor in England.
It is a simple and easy task to work these in as demonstrated below.
Hermione (who is eighteen in this story) looked deeply into the eyes of her former professor (who realizes that Hermione is eighteen in this story, even though the age difference still makes him slightly uncomfortable) and then reached out change the bandage on his already healing snake bite. Although she should probably suck on it a little more just to be on the safe side.
Or if you prefer not to use parentheticals, dialogue is another way to slip the information in.
"Miss Granger," Snape hissed. "Just what are you doing?"
"Call me Hermione, Professor," Hermione simpered. "I am twenty-one after all. Three years into my majority if you go by southern Californian standards."
Writing fanfic post-DH? Easy-peasy I say. And I hope you agree. Now get to writing, folks!