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Friday, February 17th, 2006
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12:18 pm - Friends-locked
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This journal is now friends-only.
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| Monday, January 17th, 2005
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7:28 pm - Does Snarry always work out?
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Sorry again. I'm breaking my own rule on this being a fics-only journal :( But it is fic-related . . .
I have broken free of my dialogue issues (yay!) but now I have another issue - plot. I have a hard time imagining a Snarry reunion because, to my knowledge, I have never actually seen one. Now, don't get me wrong - I have read death!fic, sort-of-death!fic, forced-bonding-gone-wrong fic, etc., but I'm blanking on fic in which the two of them break up and get back together and/or when, at the end, one of them just decides a relationship won't work for them -
Wait a minute. I just thought of one. In the latest round of the D2D Fuh-Q, there's one where Snape and Harry have been married and together a long time, and Harry decides to leave Snape because he is feeling stifled, but that's how it ends. Harry leaves. Finis. There is no reunification, at least not in that story. I'd like to read some stories where they interact after having broken off a relationship. I have my own ideas of how that would work, but it'd be nice to see some examples. If anyone in FList-land has any, it'd be greatly appreciated.
In the meantime, I'm plugging ahead with another Snarry story I had in mind while I wait for honest-to-goodness inspiration to strike me for the final part of the Forethought/Afterthought series. I don't want to just write something just to have written it and then regret it later. In one fandom I was in, there was a fantastic story that was taking a bit to unfold, and the author got tired of writing it and just slapped a pretty disheartening ending on it. I still can't read that particular story without feeling cheated by the ending.
current mood:  curious
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| Saturday, January 15th, 2005
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11:21 pm - Odd
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I didn't want to say anything when LJ announced its great news and all, but I'm wondering if that little day of fun we just experienced is indicative of things to come. I don't begrudge people making money, of course, but I always get a bit itchy when something is hyped up to huge extremes and then weird stuff, like mysterious inexplicable outages occur. I do understand that shit happens, but the timing is a little strange, is all I'm saying.
Anyway, if anyone out there in FList land has a journal on greatest journal, Please add me. I'm going to schlep my fics, minus the weird rambling, over there in any case.
current mood: curious
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| Friday, January 14th, 2005
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4:13 pm - Dialogue FIC: Not You
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Heh. My beta said that she wasn't imagining that I'd come up with this, but that she liked it a bit. And I actually enjoyed writing the dialogue for a change. Weird.
The downside - I've promised Rekka, sort of, to do a certain type of fic. Guess which kind. Oi!
Title: Not You
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I am SO broke, man! These characters aren't mine
Summary: Snape hears a heartfelt-plea
A/N: My Latin sucks, and I'm blanking on certain spells. Please point out if there's a better one I should have used.
( 'I love you! Don’t you understand that, you great, greasy bat?!' )
current mood: goofy
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| Thursday, January 13th, 2005
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8:43 pm - Dialogue woes
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So, I'm working on synthesis Harry/Severus fic, but I'm running into dialogue troubles. My Severus and Harry just can't seem to sustain a long conversation with each other. It's a little weird - I can believably write decent stretches of dialogue with Lucius and Severus, with Severus and Dumbledore, with Ron and Harry, with Ron/Harry/Hermione, but not Snape/Harry. It's a little weird, because:
a) They sort of had conversations in the books.
b) A lot of my favorite writers have enabled them to talk without apparent hardship.
I suspect that what is really blocking me is that I love reading dialogue, but writing it bores me. It's weird, but writing paragraph after paragraph of:
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..!"
Is just boring to write, so I assume that it's boring for other people to read. Of course, I adore dialogue-heavy and/or dialogue-only stories, which only adds to the weirdness. So, Rekka, my beta, has given me "homework.: Write a dialogue-heavy and/or dialogue-only piece so that I can see what it is about having those two talk that bugs me. She's a task master, that one. Working on it now, and would adore any and all feedback when I post.
current mood:  embarrassed
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| Saturday, January 8th, 2005
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1:52 pm - FIC: Afterthought
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Title: Afterthought
Pairing: SS/HP
Rating: R-plus?
Disclaimer: Still broke. Still not mine.
Summary: Harry reflects on the end of an affair.
Notes: For everyone who wanted a fluffy ending to "Forethought," ummm . . . sorry? Another exercise in writing angst. Made changes post-beta, so if you see any goofs, feel free to knock me upside the head and point them out :D
( The end had come as Harry had known it would )
current mood:  gloomy
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| Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
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10:18 pm - Fic: Forethought
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I'm not a participant in the Old Hands challenge at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) pornicators because I am still getting used to this HP writing thing ::hangs head::, but I have a WIP going that some have said should have an angsty cast.
Problem: I HATE writing angst. Reading it, yay! Writing it, no. But, I figure that I won't grow as a writer if I stick to what I feel is safe, right? So even if I suck at writing angst, I've at least tried. ::shrugs::
So, anyway, here's something I whipped up as part of a 30-minute exercise my friend gave me. I had 30 minutes to write on a theme, and the story had to be complete. Ouch. She also said I should do Severus' point of view, because I have not done so yet. Double ouch.
Made some fixes post-beta, so remaining goofs are mine. Concrit most decidedly appreciated, since I really am trying to get a handle on the angst.
So, right.
Title: Forethought
Pairing: SS/HP
Rating: Probably R
Disclaimer: I own zero
Summary: Severus reflects on the end of an affair
Notes: Angst and I are not friends :( There is a sequel to this from Harry's P.O.V. called "Afterthought" but still dithering about whether to post it.
( Severus Snape was not given to deep contemplation . . . )
current mood: melancholy
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| Monday, January 3rd, 2005
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1:17 pm - Not a fic - just an observation
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So, I'm working on two different things as I await more wonderfulness from the Old Hands Challenge on pornicators, and I had this thought about Snarry fans and het.
That's sort of an oxymoron, maybe, but hear me out: Many Snarry fans are, seemingly by default, Ron/Hermione 'shippers, it seems. I can count on one hand the number of Snarry writers who have either:
a) killed Ron
b) paired Ron and/or Hermione with someone other member of the opposite sex other than each other
c) paired Ron with Draco
Most Snarry writers, if they have Ron and Hermione mentioned in a story at all, have them either married or shagging. But . . . that's it. That is to say, I have not, (and I must stress the next part) to my knowledge ever read a purely Ron/Hermione story in which Harry/Severus are mentioned. It seems that the "default" pairing for most Ron/Hermione 'shippers is Ginny/Harry, which, no.
This distresses me, because I find that I adore Ron/Hermione. I spent most of my weekend reading Ron/Hermione at the Checkmated, and I enjoyed a lot of the hawt!R/H action, but it was always marred for me by the inevitable, "And in the next compartment came the unmistakable sounds of Ginny giving Harry a blowjob."
Now, my point is not to denigrate G/H fans. I am 80% positive that if Harry survives the series, JKR is going to imply that he and Ginny are going to wind up together. Fine. I've pretty much accepted that hot Snape/Harry loving is not going to ever be canon. But! I wonder if it is possible to have a dual shipper who ships a het couple and a slash couple. Maybe this is a stupid question, but I honestly have never seen a story in which, say, R/H and Snarry get equal time. Is it just that Snarry fans are all about the Snarry and don't want to bother with Ron/Hermione? I wonder.
I started a fic that I want to finish after I do all my "Collaboration" experiment that will have an equal amount of both, but I'm thinking that I may write a "slash only" version for those who just cannot stomach het and then offer the "full version" for R/H fans and/or people who are curious.
( A small sample )
And then there will be sex. There may be plot, but I wouldn't count on it. But there will be het sex, and, wow. Het and slash can exist in one medium, right? It does on The L Word.
Also! I had the pleasure of reading the rest in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cordelia_v's Ten Commandments series, and I am unwittingly guilty of "Sev" and "'Mione." I have to watch that, because they annoy me, too, in fic. Wild!
current mood: contemplative
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| Saturday, January 1st, 2005
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8:46 pm - The start of, um, something. . .
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All right, so I like experimental writing a lot. Not necessarily stream of consciousness writing, because that gets a little boring and hard to follow, nor do I mean weird hybrid writing combinations like prose/poetry alternating every other line and that. I mean just playing around with techniques and styles and ideas.
The other day, I got an idea to do a series of vignettes, sort of like a novel-in-short-stories. Only, um, not that long. The plot is, admittedly, kind of flimsy, but I want to see if I can pull this off, first, and then if I know it can be done (by me), maybe I'll think of other plots that are little more substantial. Not sure yet.
Anyway, I'm calling the overall work "Collaboration," but the vignettes will have individual titles. This one is the prologue of sorts, only, it's not. It may be the prologue, or it may be the start of something else. See, I'm already trying to think outside the Snarry :D
Also, it's not beta'd yet. If I like it, I'll likely send it off to be cleaned up and that.
( Prologue: Media Culpa )
current mood: anxious
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| Friday, December 31st, 2004
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5:25 pm - Vertical files - stories that didn't pan out
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There are a bunch of Snape/Harry ideas I have that just aren't going to work. Like the one where I wanted Harry to lose the battle with Voldemort and retire to Ireland to oversee an orphanage for squibs. There are more. I try to think of why some ideas pan out and others don't, and I guess the short answer is, I'm not a good enough writer yet to make them work. Wonderful Snarry writers in this fandom prolly could make any plot wonderful. I hate!!!! mpreg, but in the hands of a good writer, I'll read it.
Anyway, I'm going to post some of my Vertical Files fiction here in hopes that someone may read it and suggest some things that I could do to make it work. But otherwise, these are stories I've tried different things with, and can't make them go. snapesdarkling was kind enough to look it over some time ago, and she made some awesome suggestions, but I look at this story and still really can't get as excited about it as I was. It's kind of a bummer.
( Untitled fiction )
current mood:  aggravated
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| Thursday, December 23rd, 2004
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5:07 pm - Fic: Addendum
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Title: Addendum
Pairing: HP/SS, and some others
Rating: I'll say R, just to be safe
Summary: Don't believe everything you read.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: Just a little nonsense that came into my head.
( Story #1 )
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