[Fic] "Truce" -- Harry Potter
Oct. 4th, 2006 12:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingIt's time for another ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
thirtyforthree ficlet!
Theme: #8 - Babies
Warnings: mild cursing
Note: This is a first-person Ron POV. I have trouble writing Ron, so I don't know how accurate his 'voice' is, but that's how the story wanted to go. Besides, I'd done a Hermione POV on the threesome -- "Vision (Quantum State Collapse)" -- so it seemed only fair to give Ron a shot as well.
( Truce )
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In other news, chapter 11 of "Secrets" is now at 2,700 words in rough draft, which ought to be at least 1/4 of the total chapter length. Go me!
I aim for 9,000-10,000 words, though chapter length is variable depending on content. I have an overall 'shape' for each chapter, and I don't like moving things around unless there's a very good reason. Like, say, splitting chapter 6 in half when it turned out to have just Too Much Stuff happening in the space of one week.
My outlines for chapters 12-14 are a little vague at the moment. There's a lot that has to happen, but CoS skims damn fast over the time period in question -- Harry, after all, didn't know diddly about Ginny's problems -- which leaves me somewhat at sea when it comes to the timing of events. I may well end up swapping some set pieces from chapter 11 to chapter 12 and vice versa. Others may move from 12 to 13, depending on how they expand or contract in the writing.
Chapter 14's a little vague because it's heavily emotional and I'm still not completely sure how I'm going to play Ginny's experience of the Chamber itself; that will greatly affect her reactions in the aftermath. I'm fairly certain... but not completely certain, and having already had my possession interpretation utterly bollixed by revelations in OotP, I don't want to get too detailed yet. (I fudged on the possession so it's still canon-compliant, but it was a pain to alter.) There are also some purely technical timing issues I haven't decided how to handle, but to say any more would be telling. :-)
Chapter 15 is the rest of the falling action, and was originally going to be a brief epilogue before I realized how many loose ends I was going to have to wrap up. Needless to say, it's a bit longer now.
Anyway, this may all change as I write. I have a scene by scene breakdown of chapter 11, but all my outlines tend to go funny on me. This one has already done so; scene 1 has split into two separate scenes. It makes perfect dramatic sense, and it's good when a story is alive like this (within reason; I try to yank out unhelpful plot tangents, but some make it all the way to beta as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lasultrix and aichmetes can attest), but ye gods, it can be irritating at times.
Mostly I'm just happy that my baby is talking to me again. I was worried for a while, especially since I'm trying to keep so many WIPs in the air right now, but they're all alive and well, so I am quite cheerful at the moment. *smiles at the world*
thirtyforthree ficlet!Theme: #8 - Babies
Warnings: mild cursing
Note: This is a first-person Ron POV. I have trouble writing Ron, so I don't know how accurate his 'voice' is, but that's how the story wanted to go. Besides, I'd done a Hermione POV on the threesome -- "Vision (Quantum State Collapse)" -- so it seemed only fair to give Ron a shot as well.
( Truce )
---------------------------------------------
In other news, chapter 11 of "Secrets" is now at 2,700 words in rough draft, which ought to be at least 1/4 of the total chapter length. Go me!
I aim for 9,000-10,000 words, though chapter length is variable depending on content. I have an overall 'shape' for each chapter, and I don't like moving things around unless there's a very good reason. Like, say, splitting chapter 6 in half when it turned out to have just Too Much Stuff happening in the space of one week.
My outlines for chapters 12-14 are a little vague at the moment. There's a lot that has to happen, but CoS skims damn fast over the time period in question -- Harry, after all, didn't know diddly about Ginny's problems -- which leaves me somewhat at sea when it comes to the timing of events. I may well end up swapping some set pieces from chapter 11 to chapter 12 and vice versa. Others may move from 12 to 13, depending on how they expand or contract in the writing.
Chapter 14's a little vague because it's heavily emotional and I'm still not completely sure how I'm going to play Ginny's experience of the Chamber itself; that will greatly affect her reactions in the aftermath. I'm fairly certain... but not completely certain, and having already had my possession interpretation utterly bollixed by revelations in OotP, I don't want to get too detailed yet. (I fudged on the possession so it's still canon-compliant, but it was a pain to alter.) There are also some purely technical timing issues I haven't decided how to handle, but to say any more would be telling. :-)
Chapter 15 is the rest of the falling action, and was originally going to be a brief epilogue before I realized how many loose ends I was going to have to wrap up. Needless to say, it's a bit longer now.
Anyway, this may all change as I write. I have a scene by scene breakdown of chapter 11, but all my outlines tend to go funny on me. This one has already done so; scene 1 has split into two separate scenes. It makes perfect dramatic sense, and it's good when a story is alive like this (within reason; I try to yank out unhelpful plot tangents, but some make it all the way to beta as
lasultrix and aichmetes can attest), but ye gods, it can be irritating at times.Mostly I'm just happy that my baby is talking to me again. I was worried for a while, especially since I'm trying to keep so many WIPs in the air right now, but they're all alive and well, so I am quite cheerful at the moment. *smiles at the world*