[Fic] "Transience" -- Harry Potter

It's time for another thirtyforthree Ginny/Harry/Draco ficlet! This one's a drabble for theme #10 - rent. It's not dark, exactly, but it definitely isn't fluffy either.

( Transience )

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In other news, I've spent the last few days editing "Finding Marea" rather than writing. The edits are taking longer than usual -- partly because the story had more problems than my fanfiction rough drafts usually do (I was taking a lot more narrative 'risks' and the structure was correspondingly awkward in places), and partly because it is original fiction, so I don't have a convenient body of assumed reader knowledge to fall back on. If something isn't clear to my editors, then I have to sit down and figure out how to explain it without breaking the flow of the story.

Anyway, it's grown from 13,700 words to 14,400 words... and I'm only 1/2 to 2/3 done with the edits. I'm hoping to knock the wordcount back down once I get in all the explanations I left out of the rough draft. I think I even know how to do that, thanks to a helpful comment from Susan.

Susan also told me something about Somae that I'd completely overlooked. Well, actually, she misinterpreted something I wrote, but when I looked at it her way, it suddenly made so much sense from a character perspective that I promptly incorporated it. She's also insisting that I describe physical settings and give Harai (the narrator) more emotional reactions instead of just intellectual ones.

Vicky, on the other hand, is beating me upside the head and making me actually think about the legal situation and the exact relationship between the two major religions in the story. She refuses to let me be illogical and say things like "It works that way because I say so!" when what I say doesn't really make sense in terms of human behavior. This drives me up the wall, but is exactly why I run my more experimental stories by her first.

And both Susan and Vicky are refusing to let me get away with my characteristic vagueness about settings, in terms of both place and time. I can't draw a map like Vicky wants, nor make a timeline, but I am doing my best to make the basic geography clear and fix up the order of events. I'll probably fail, but at least I'm trying!

[Fic] "Transience" -- Harry Potter

It's time for another thirtyforthree Ginny/Harry/Draco ficlet! This one's a drabble for theme #10 - rent. It's not dark, exactly, but it definitely isn't fluffy either.

( Transience )

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In other news, I've spent the last few days editing "Finding Marea" rather than writing. The edits are taking longer than usual -- partly because the story had more problems than my fanfiction rough drafts usually do (I was taking a lot more narrative 'risks' and the structure was correspondingly awkward in places), and partly because it is original fiction, so I don't have a convenient body of assumed reader knowledge to fall back on. If something isn't clear to my editors, then I have to sit down and figure out how to explain it without breaking the flow of the story.

Anyway, it's grown from 13,700 words to 14,400 words... and I'm only 1/2 to 2/3 done with the edits. I'm hoping to knock the wordcount back down once I get in all the explanations I left out of the rough draft. I think I even know how to do that, thanks to a helpful comment from Susan.

Susan also told me something about Somae that I'd completely overlooked. Well, actually, she misinterpreted something I wrote, but when I looked at it her way, it suddenly made so much sense from a character perspective that I promptly incorporated it. She's also insisting that I describe physical settings and give Harai (the narrator) more emotional reactions instead of just intellectual ones.

Vicky, on the other hand, is beating me upside the head and making me actually think about the legal situation and the exact relationship between the two major religions in the story. She refuses to let me be illogical and say things like "It works that way because I say so!" when what I say doesn't really make sense in terms of human behavior. This drives me up the wall, but is exactly why I run my more experimental stories by her first.

And both Susan and Vicky are refusing to let me get away with my characteristic vagueness about settings, in terms of both place and time. I can't draw a map like Vicky wants, nor make a timeline, but I am doing my best to make the basic geography clear and fix up the order of events. I'll probably fail, but at least I'm trying!