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asimplechordJust received a comment on a Harry Potter fanfic that I was writing and posting serially four years ago.
FOUR YEARS AGO. It's Snarry, with background Harry/Snape/Hermione and implied future Hermione/Charlie Weasley. OBVIOUSLY totally AU, since it was plotted, outlined, and mostly-written before Deathly Hallows came out.
(I write "plotted". But you know how bad I am with plot; it was mostly porn, with a little bit of plot.)
If you've been around here any length of time, you probably know that the release of book 7 induced sincere dismay in Harry Potter canon, dismay that fandom did not overcome. I posted a note at the bottom of the latest chapter that I was suffering serious fandom apathy and it was unlikely that the story would ever be finished.
Someone asks NOW if I'm going to regain my interest and finish it?
Um, honestly? DOUBTFUL.
ETA: Also? Going through some of those old fic posts. Some of my early writing efforts - and later ones as well - make me shudder in horror. How did I think it was OK to write that? Just. Ugh, self, what were you thinking? I guess what my first composition professor told me is true: writing is like any other exercise, it gets better with practice.
FOUR YEARS AGO. It's Snarry, with background Harry/Snape/Hermione and implied future Hermione/Charlie Weasley. OBVIOUSLY totally AU, since it was plotted, outlined, and mostly-written before Deathly Hallows came out.
(I write "plotted". But you know how bad I am with plot; it was mostly porn, with a little bit of plot.)
If you've been around here any length of time, you probably know that the release of book 7 induced sincere dismay in Harry Potter canon, dismay that fandom did not overcome. I posted a note at the bottom of the latest chapter that I was suffering serious fandom apathy and it was unlikely that the story would ever be finished.
Someone asks NOW if I'm going to regain my interest and finish it?
Um, honestly? DOUBTFUL.
ETA: Also? Going through some of those old fic posts. Some of my early writing efforts - and later ones as well - make me shudder in horror. How did I think it was OK to write that? Just. Ugh, self, what were you thinking? I guess what my first composition professor told me is true: writing is like any other exercise, it gets better with practice.
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Date: 2010-11-23 05:37 am (UTC)New movie must've whetted folks' appetites. I got a comment on the weekend, totally outta the blue, on a one-off story from about -yeah- four years ago (written for a specific prompt for someone in some writing fest) and the entirety of said comment? "Oh PLEASE tell me there's a sequel to this!"
Er, that would be a "no, sorry".
OTOH, someone new found Beaters&Seekers yesterday and read the whole thing in one go. :D
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Date: 2010-11-23 05:55 am (UTC)*happy sigh*
Beaters & Seekers. I need to re-read that again. :D
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Date: 2010-11-23 06:01 am (UTC)I'm just back from my first viewing, actually. :D I felt a pull of writing the twins again, but with other commitments being what they are right now, I don't think I'd have the time to coax myself back into the world and headspace...
The thing's a marked improvement over the adaptation of HBP, but I couldn't help sitting there thinking (several times) "Why couldn't they have given every book the two-parter treatment?". 'Tis ridiculous they're making us wait so long betwixt one half and the next though. This is half a movie! And we're expected to wait until July?! Fuckers.
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Date: 2010-11-23 12:59 pm (UTC)I asked myself that. And I also wondered: if a director could see that Deathly Hallows needed to be split into two, why couldn't JKR, who instead crammed Harry's story and Grindelwald & Dumbledore's story into one volume?