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montavilla

Should I Be Admitting This?

Oct 30, 2007 08:48

In order to read through and do a second draft of Severus Snape and the Half-Blood Prince, I mined all my journal entries, gathered the material into what turned out to be three Word documents and printed it out ( Read more... )

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fiction_goddess October 31 2007, 01:24:00 UTC

Wow that's a lot of writing.
I have to admit, I haven't been reading it lately beacause I haven't been reading much of anything, but I know that what I have read up to was at a really good standard. Considering that NaNo doesn't expect you to edit or polish the work within the month, you probably could have done it twice over during May.
Go you.

ex_peignoir991 October 31 2007, 03:48:21 UTC

You should definitely be proud! That's 331 pages of awesome.

ellecain November 1 2007, 15:22:42 UTC

When you say 331 pages, that's only journal entries right? And in addition, I know you wrote a number of awesome Snape posts at HPfGU (and, I assume, on other mailing lists and in the comment sections all over LJ)?

Heh, you should be proud!

sydpad November 1 2007, 20:20:09 UTC

>It feels like having an affair with a married man. Granted, his wife is bad-mouthing him all the world right now, but still....

So true!! Also this:

>I don't know whether to be proud of my accomplishment or appalled at my obsessive behavior.

Dude, I know. You wouldn't believe how many drawings I have, I could have storyboarded 10 shorts by now. On the other hand, I keep telling myself I'm honing my craft.. and his wife doesn't understand him!!

jodel_from_aol November 10 2007, 22:29:25 UTC

I am embarassed. A German fan who stumbled across the Changeling Hytpothesis fairly soon after it was uploaded Just sent me a .pdf of the whole Red Hen essay collection which he had copy-pasted into some generic text converter and formatted into 2-column A4 pages for offline reading.

It came to 845 pages.

I must say that there *are* a few blank pages in the document. But not that many.

I cringe. I really do. I also feel mildly smug in that I *suspected* that if I laid it end-to-end I'd come out with something that weighed in close to the length of OotP and that really is awfully close. (I suspect that formatte das OotP is, it would be considerably longere. OotP is not printed double-colume on A4 paper.)

But it certainly explains why it ended up taking from mid-September all the way down to the wire at Midnight Haloween to thet through the whole thing.

montavilla November 10 2007, 23:43:17 UTC

845! I feel better. But I am afraid that I may exceed that eventually, as I know the next bit will be long. I have to cover the Prophecy, Snape's remorse, and the Harry years up to Year Six.

After that will be Year Six, which has a lot happening that I think is key to Snape's evolution as a character. (And I still have to figure out what happened to Vance!)