wherein Liz bitches about themes and story length and stuff

I finished the rough draft of "An Ounce of Prevention" chapter 23 tonight, and made a start on the real epilogue (am still undecided about an omake epilogue, btw, but I'm leaning toward 'yes'). Anyway, that's all well and good, but I think I need to go back and tweak the early chapters of the story so they line up thematically with the ending of the story.

This is the trouble with doing a continuation of a one-shot. You write something small and self-contained, and then when you extend it, you have to find a different structure to carry the weight of the extra words. And while the theme of the original "An Ounce of Prevention" was basically 'Hey, wouldn't it be cool if diary!Tom ran into someone who was a match for him?' the theme of the chaptered story turns out to be more about ethics, the nature of betrayal, and Sakura growing up.

So. I need to go back and 'start' the story I finished.

*sigh*

I hate writing. The trouble is, I can't stop telling stories, and I hate not writing even more. (And okay, when it's good, it's the best thing in the world.)

wherein Liz bitches about themes and story length and stuff

I finished the rough draft of "An Ounce of Prevention" chapter 23 tonight, and made a start on the real epilogue (am still undecided about an omake epilogue, btw, but I'm leaning toward 'yes'). Anyway, that's all well and good, but I think I need to go back and tweak the early chapters of the story so they line up thematically with the ending of the story.

This is the trouble with doing a continuation of a one-shot. You write something small and self-contained, and then when you extend it, you have to find a different structure to carry the weight of the extra words. And while the theme of the original "An Ounce of Prevention" was basically 'Hey, wouldn't it be cool if diary!Tom ran into someone who was a match for him?' the theme of the chaptered story turns out to be more about ethics, the nature of betrayal, and Sakura growing up.

So. I need to go back and 'start' the story I finished.

*sigh*

I hate writing. The trouble is, I can't stop telling stories, and I hate not writing even more. (And okay, when it's good, it's the best thing in the world.)

[Fic] "An Ounce of Prevention" chapter 22 -- Naruto/Harry Potter

This is part 22 of An Ounce of Prevention, a Naruto/Harry Potter crossover that I started as a giftfic for askerian.

Technically, it's an insertion of one HP character/plot device into the Naruto world, but that does count as a crossover of sorts. "An Ounce of Prevention" will not affect canon in either series; that is, it takes place during the Naruto timeskip, and significantly before CoS in HP. (Which gives away at least part of the ending, but whatever. *grin*)

( An Ounce of Prevention, chapter 22 )

Happy almost-not-Independence-Day-anymore! (I think I sneaked in just under the wire.)

I fiddled the first four chapters thematically -- which meant adding a paragraph or so to chapter 1, tweaking a couple word choices in chapter 2, reconceiving the ending of chapter 3, and adding a parenthetical phrase to chapter 4 -- and will post the revised versions on ff.net shortly.

[Fic] "An Ounce of Prevention" chapter 22 -- Naruto/Harry Potter

This is part 22 of An Ounce of Prevention, a Naruto/Harry Potter crossover that I started as a giftfic for askerian.

Technically, it's an insertion of one HP character/plot device into the Naruto world, but that does count as a crossover of sorts. "An Ounce of Prevention" will not affect canon in either series; that is, it takes place during the Naruto timeskip, and significantly before CoS in HP. (Which gives away at least part of the ending, but whatever. *grin*)

( An Ounce of Prevention, chapter 22 )

Happy almost-not-Independence-Day-anymore! (I think I sneaked in just under the wire.)

I fiddled the first four chapters thematically -- which meant adding a paragraph or so to chapter 1, tweaking a couple word choices in chapter 2, reconceiving the ending of chapter 3, and adding a parenthetical phrase to chapter 4 -- and will post the revised versions on ff.net shortly.