working ahead of an incomplete canon

"Knives" is a bitch and a half to edit -- I kind of poke at it for a while and skim over some sections until the story sucks me back into its twisted world and I can think inside-out again. Then I lose track of time, and everything makes a peculiar, black sort of sense... but it still goes slowly, because this is a true story, one that comes right up from one of the dark pockets in my subconscious. It needs to be written right. Plus, I have to make sure I'm not mucking up my imagery patterns, and some of Vicky's suggestions require extensive structural reworking of various scenes.

I think I will post it on lj when I send it to beta, so as to get some additional feedback, and so as to have it up before Half Blood Prince comes out.

I am quite sure "Knives" is not going to happen in canon, and I don't really do canon predictions anyway, but I'd like to have the story up before JKR completely knocks all my ideas out the window.

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It's easier to write for Naruto, since most of what I'm doing (in "Apartment Manager") is set in the past and is already AU. If Kishimoto contradicts some of my ideas, I don't much care. However, I will have to start paying more attention to current manga chapters if and when I start the sequel to "Tides."

In Harry Potter, however, I am trying my damndest to keep "Secrets" canon-compliant, which means that when OotP came out, I had to go back and reformulate my outlines. I will probably have to do that again in a week or two, to compensate for Half Blood Prince. I take pride in working within canon, but that, in its own way, is as much a bitch as dredging through the dark corners of my mind.

working ahead of an incomplete canon

"Knives" is a bitch and a half to edit -- I kind of poke at it for a while and skim over some sections until the story sucks me back into its twisted world and I can think inside-out again. Then I lose track of time, and everything makes a peculiar, black sort of sense... but it still goes slowly, because this is a true story, one that comes right up from one of the dark pockets in my subconscious. It needs to be written right. Plus, I have to make sure I'm not mucking up my imagery patterns, and some of Vicky's suggestions require extensive structural reworking of various scenes.

I think I will post it on lj when I send it to beta, so as to get some additional feedback, and so as to have it up before Half Blood Prince comes out.

I am quite sure "Knives" is not going to happen in canon, and I don't really do canon predictions anyway, but I'd like to have the story up before JKR completely knocks all my ideas out the window.

...

It's easier to write for Naruto, since most of what I'm doing (in "Apartment Manager") is set in the past and is already AU. If Kishimoto contradicts some of my ideas, I don't much care. However, I will have to start paying more attention to current manga chapters if and when I start the sequel to "Tides."

In Harry Potter, however, I am trying my damndest to keep "Secrets" canon-compliant, which means that when OotP came out, I had to go back and reformulate my outlines. I will probably have to do that again in a week or two, to compensate for Half Blood Prince. I take pride in working within canon, but that, in its own way, is as much a bitch as dredging through the dark corners of my mind.