*waves*

[emmagrant01]

I'm back!

I know I probably missed a lot in the last few weeks, so if there's any fic I should absolutely go and read, please, please comment here and let me know! Feel free to pimp your own stuff. *meaningful glance at jedirita*



Writing Update:

• I'm currently finishing up a Star Wars prequels-era fic that I really hope to get posted in the next week or so. This has been a looong time coming, so I'm looking forward to getting it done! I just hope people will read it... :-/

• I'm working on the rewrite of Left My Heart now, and it's coming along well. I'd like to thank the folks who took the time to send me concrit -- it has been more helpful than I can express! I'm hoping to get the rewrite done in the next few weeks, then maybe post the final version in late August. As for the sequel... don't hold your breath to see that in the next month or so. It will probably be well into the fall before that's in any shape to start posting! I'd like to post it as a weekly WIP again, and I need to get quite a bit of it done before I start that. I really overwhelmed my poor betas last time, and I don't want to put anyone in that position again.

• helens78 and I are co-writing a SW ficlet. It's my turn to get something done on that, but I'm excited to be doing something with her again! I think it's going to be a nice piece when we're finished with it. Again, I hope people will be interested in reading it. That fandom's been a bit quiet of late. Well, maybe there's been a burst of fic in the last few weeks that I've missed!


That's all for now. Hope everyone's having a great summer!

Comments

I'm going to butt in a bit

[snickelpop.livejournal.com]

So glad to see you are still around! And that you are still creatively thinking about LMH. It was really fabulous. But I've ranted about that before.

I wanted to tell you that your post explaining the reasons why you wanted to revise was very interesting. I agree more than I disagree. But I would caution you that to have too good a grip on your characters may be counter-productive. I realize that Harry was fairly clueless, but he had a good heart. And that seems to be his saving grace more than anything.

And maybe Draco was "fanon" a bit, but frankly I am not interested in a non fanon Draco. I think that canon Draco is not headed for any interesting places. Just my personal opinion. You have given him adequate reasons for why he is what he is. And also, I think Harry has also been explained. I love these imperfect and somewhat unpredictable characters. They don't need to follow straight lines. Or have to make sense. Who does?

And, I am excited beyond belief about the clues you will place for the new sequel.........I would be fanon myself and squee, but I am too old for such......

To conclude (can you tell I've had a night on the town?) I think that you should not be as hard on yourself as this post indicated. I really did not get the sense these guys were not being true to themselves. They are what they are. You can tweak them, probably. But they are pretty darn strong as they are.

Re: I'm going to butt in a bit

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Been meaning to reply to this, but I've been swamped with other things... :-P

First, thanks for letting me know what you think! I really appreciate it! Lots of people seemed to have really liked LMH, and even though I have a lot of problems with it, I still get emails from people telling me they have no idea how I could improve it. Though I'm flattered, I disagree.

The changes I'm making are subtle, for the most part. I was always bothered by Harry's cluelessness as an auror, and it didn't make much sense that he'd be the one chosen to go on this assignment. I needed to iron all of that out in my head, and I'm making some changes to make all of that more sensible. His cluelessness will be preserved, of course, because that's an important part of the story. I'm just hoping it makes more sense in context in the final version.

Re: fanon Draco: You have given him adequate reasons for why he is what he is ... They don't need to follow straight lines. Or have to make sense.

Well... There was a recent discussion on several folks' LJs about OOC-ness in futurefic, and one of the conclusions many of us came to was that just about anything is fine as long as the writer makes it plausible that a character could turn out a certain way.

As a result, I'm not changing Draco so much as I'm trying to make it a bit more plausible that canon Draco could have become this person. One of the things I didn't like about the first draft was that I hardly dealt at all with the fact that Harry and Draco hated each other through school. I just dismissed all of that canon conflict in a single line and then proceeded as if both of them were fine starting over with a clean slate. I'm addressing that a bit more carefully in the rewrite. I'm also hinting more that Draco is aware that Harry has been under the influence of a suffocation spell, and things like that. Does that make sense?

I think that you should not be as hard on yourself as this post indicated.

*big grin* Oh, I'm always hard on myself! I'm my own biggest critic. I'm also my own biggest fan, though, so it all works out! Thanks again for your encouraging comments!