writing progress report
May. 30th, 2009 11:29 pmThe hell with Star Trek. I just wrote another 600 words of "Secrets" and managed to both send Xanthe off and get Professor Sprout to bring Hagrid up naturally in conversation. Now I just need to bring him onstage so Ginny can talk to him.
...And then the remaining scenes, of course, but once I get past Hagrid I can go back to Apple and Daphne and at least temporarily avoid the intense ethical philosophy I've been mired in for the past month. Also, unlike Xanthe (who, while a vivid character in my mind, has an unfortunate tendency to become a plot device in practice), Daphne's life does not revolve around Ginny. Which is nice.
I like Daphne. I like her even better when she's doing a comedy double-act with Apple, which has fallen by the wayside since early chapters of "Secrets." (That is perfectly reasonable, since neither cousin is in a terribly playful mood around Ginny after she starts the fight with Daphne, but it's kind of sad.) One of these days, I really must get around to finishing "The Dragon Debacle," which is my sidestory explaining the mischief Apple and Daphne got up to in Romania the summer before "Secrets."
...And then the remaining scenes, of course, but once I get past Hagrid I can go back to Apple and Daphne and at least temporarily avoid the intense ethical philosophy I've been mired in for the past month. Also, unlike Xanthe (who, while a vivid character in my mind, has an unfortunate tendency to become a plot device in practice), Daphne's life does not revolve around Ginny. Which is nice.
I like Daphne. I like her even better when she's doing a comedy double-act with Apple, which has fallen by the wayside since early chapters of "Secrets." (That is perfectly reasonable, since neither cousin is in a terribly playful mood around Ginny after she starts the fight with Daphne, but it's kind of sad.) One of these days, I really must get around to finishing "The Dragon Debacle," which is my sidestory explaining the mischief Apple and Daphne got up to in Romania the summer before "Secrets."