[Fic] "Bridesmaid" -- Harry Potter

This was originally posted here on 8 October 2004, as part of annearchy's first line drabble thingy, but I am reposting it so as to conveniently stick in my lj memories. Because I wrote it in the reply window and had no record of it for several about six months, and I don't like losing my own stories into the depths of the internet. :-)

( Bridesmaid )

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Am leaving work early to pick up a package, which I suspect is the Jack Vance book I ordered from SFBC a few weeks ago. *crosses fingers*

Then I will write. Because I figured out what went wrong in the last few hundred words of "Secrets" -- total mischaracterization of Ron, basically -- and I have a plan to fix it. And once that's fixed, I will be done with scene 2! And scene 3 is already finished, which means I can jump right to scene 4 and about two thousand tons of emotional/psychological torture! And cunning plans! And screaming arguments! And massive guilt trips! And! And! And!

I am really looking forward to scene 4. Can you tell?

(I mean, it's ONLY the turning point of the whole story... well, along with scenes 3 and 5. Yes, that means what you think it means.)

[Fic] "Bridesmaid" -- Harry Potter

This was originally posted here on 8 October 2004, as part of annearchy's first line drabble thingy, but I am reposting it so as to conveniently stick in my lj memories. Because I wrote it in the reply window and had no record of it for several about six months, and I don't like losing my own stories into the depths of the internet. :-)

[ETA: The ever-so-slightly revised final version is now up on AO3!]

( Bridesmaid )

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Am leaving work early to pick up a package, which I suspect is the Jack Vance book I ordered from SFBC a few weeks ago. *crosses fingers*

Then I will write. Because I figured out what went wrong in the last few hundred words of "Secrets" -- total mischaracterization of Ron, basically -- and I have a plan to fix it. And once that's fixed, I will be done with scene 2! And scene 3 is already finished, which means I can jump right to scene 4 and about two thousand tons of emotional/psychological torture! And cunning plans! And screaming arguments! And massive guilt trips! And! And! And!

I am really looking forward to scene 4. Can you tell?

(I mean, it's ONLY the turning point of the whole story... well, along with scenes 3 and 5. Yes, that means what you think it means.)

wherein Liz gets a little excited about her writing

Yes! Ha! Take that!

*dances*

Scene 2 is FINISHED! It now includes a random sibling conversation between Ginny and Ron that I totally hadn't planned, but which kind of flowed naturally from the fix I made to the previous bit. I was still stalling for a while, and then it occurred to me that Ron could shoo Harry off as soon as they'd explained the Hermione=catperson thing, in order to talk to Ginny privately. And then, once Harry was out of the picture, Ginny could start being herself instead of going all inarticulate and squeaky.

And it worked.

And it's done!

And I think it's a pretty damn good scene, if I do say so myself.

And I am feeling my story again.

Oh yeah, baby, we are Back In Business!

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I was going to post all the revised and newly completed chapters to ff.net, since I only have the old versions of 1-5 up there (somehow I never got around to cross-posting 6-8 from FA), but my disk kind of went insane. And corrupted the files. And then I had to pry it out of my computer with pliers and fingernail scissors.

So no change in "Secrets" on ff.net.

I really hope my disk drive isn't kaputt now.

wherein Liz gets a little excited about her writing

Yes! Ha! Take that!

*dances*

Scene 2 is FINISHED! It now includes a random sibling conversation between Ginny and Ron that I totally hadn't planned, but which kind of flowed naturally from the fix I made to the previous bit. I was still stalling for a while, and then it occurred to me that Ron could shoo Harry off as soon as they'd explained the Hermione=catperson thing, in order to talk to Ginny privately. And then, once Harry was out of the picture, Ginny could start being herself instead of going all inarticulate and squeaky.

And it worked.

And it's done!

And I think it's a pretty damn good scene, if I do say so myself.

And I am feeling my story again.

Oh yeah, baby, we are Back In Business!

------------------------------

I was going to post all the revised and newly completed chapters to ff.net, since I only have the old versions of 1-5 up there (somehow I never got around to cross-posting 6-8 from FA), but my disk kind of went insane. And corrupted the files. And then I had to pry it out of my computer with pliers and fingernail scissors.

So no change in "Secrets" on ff.net.

I really hope my disk drive isn't kaputt now.