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Nov. 22nd, 2010 09:36 pm
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Just 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.

Date: 2010-11-23 01:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] idrilka.livejournal.com
Yeah, exactly. If I were to go back to one of those old stories, I'd have to rewrite it from the beginning to suit my current style of writing, otherwise it'd be just too jarring.

Not to mention that I simply burned out after a few years in that fandom (the fact that I despised both The Half-Blood Prince and The Deathly Hallows certainly didn't help the matters XD) and I don't intend to go back. But, God, does that bring back memories... HP was my first fandom that I actively participated in.

Date: 2010-11-23 01:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asimplechord.livejournal.com
Yeah, HP was the first fandom I was really active in, and I met MANY fabulous people online and in RL through it. I miss it, in a vague way - I was a moderator on an archive that was really strict, in terms of canon compliance, grammar, etc., and I miss fandom writing having some of those standards -but I don't miss the shipping and the wank. And I cannot agree more - books 6 and 7 were *such* disappointments, squandering so many possibilities.

Date: 2010-11-23 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] idrilka.livejournal.com
Exactly. About 80% of my flist consists of people I met through the Polish HP fandom, and we are still very close after all those years, visit each other whenever we can, and this is also exactly how I met my best friends, people that I love as much as my family and know I can count on, because they never let me down. And I have a lot of fondness for the HP fandom, precisely because of the people who were involved in it. But the last two books were horrible and the amount of badfic became overwhelming, and the HP fandom and I parted ways amicably in the end.

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