"Secrets" progress report
Sep. 5th, 2012 11:29 pm250 words tonight, for a new total of 6,900. I got through most of the Hogwarts Express scene last night when I couldn't get online, and rounded it off tonight. That was fun, because I got to make Harry a wildly unreliable narrator and have Ginny know full damn well that she's setting the twins on Percy, not giggle anxiously and act as if she's never met her brothers in her life and has no idea what they'd do with such tempting blackmail material. That scene is so annoying in the original. I mean, Ginny is a Weasley! It is later amply proven that she has a temper and that she's vindictive. There is no way on earth she didn't drop the girlfriend thing on purpose. *thwaps Rowling*
(For reference, as I have said before, I do not like the ending of CoS. I mean, I can excuse SOME of it on the grounds of Harry being a self-centered and unreliable narrator, but in that case I would expect Rowling to signal a hell of a lot harder that Harry's perspective is not gospel truth.)
Now I have the chapter-closing scene of Ginny at the Burrow (pre-lottery-victory), to deal with more of the emotional fallout of the year and the difficulty of fitting back into her family role after such a life-changing experience. I really have no idea how long that will run, or whether it might split into two or more scenes. This one I am playing pretty much by ear.
And then the epilogue, and then editing, and then I will be done! (After ten and a half years. Holy shit, that is a long time to have anything hanging over my head. Incidentally, if you are a fan of one of my other WIPs that I update at less than a snail's pace? Take heart! I do finish things in the end! ...I just have a very broad definition of "in the end." *wry*)
(For reference, as I have said before, I do not like the ending of CoS. I mean, I can excuse SOME of it on the grounds of Harry being a self-centered and unreliable narrator, but in that case I would expect Rowling to signal a hell of a lot harder that Harry's perspective is not gospel truth.)
Now I have the chapter-closing scene of Ginny at the Burrow (pre-lottery-victory), to deal with more of the emotional fallout of the year and the difficulty of fitting back into her family role after such a life-changing experience. I really have no idea how long that will run, or whether it might split into two or more scenes. This one I am playing pretty much by ear.
And then the epilogue, and then editing, and then I will be done! (After ten and a half years. Holy shit, that is a long time to have anything hanging over my head. Incidentally, if you are a fan of one of my other WIPs that I update at less than a snail's pace? Take heart! I do finish things in the end! ...I just have a very broad definition of "in the end." *wry*)