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edenfallingI'm working on "Secrets" chapter 15 again. I adjusted the Ginny-and-Daphne scene to mention the time Ginny dumped pumpkin juice on Daphne's head, because if Ginny is going to apologize, she had damn well better apologize for ALL the things she did, not just for insulting Daphne in Potions. I also tweaked the "back at the Burrow" scene to move it a week later and mention two owls arriving -- one with Xanthe's letter, and one from the Daily Prophet.
This is because the only way I can make PoA make temporal sense is... well, let me quote you a bit from my outline for the epilogue:
NOTE, 8/19/09: Mr. Weasley doesn't win the Daily Prophet Grand Prize Galleon Draw until roughly a week before Harry's birthday, which would be... around July 24, give or take a couple days. So Ginny is back at the Burrow for a month before the Weasleys head to Egypt. I should work that into the narrative.
Or no, wait, Hermione says the picture and the article were in the paper a week ago, and since the picture was taken in Egypt and the Weasleys plan to arrive back in England around... hmm... August 20-25 or so ('about a week' before September), and they're spending 'a month' in Egypt, they must have left around July 17-20 in order to be in Egypt for a few days by the time Ron clipped the article and wrote to Harry. So the Galleon Draw was most likely sometime in early to mid-July. (You know, I can only make this align by assuming JKR was being very inexact about temporal words.)
Anyway, I am so close to the end of this scene I can taste it. I just need to find a graceful way to wind it down, after which I can print out the damned chapter and hack it up with the Editing Pen of DOOM.
It should be around 8,500 in final form -- it's 8,200 right now.
Then I can write the epilogue and finally, finally, finally get this story off my back. *crosses fingers*
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(In related HP writing news, I am thinking seriously of declaring "Strange Likenesses" permanently unfinished. The problem with that story is I started writing it as a one-shot based on an interesting premise, and even when I tried to continue it, I never had a proper plot. Which is to say, it has no story arc and no conclusion for me to drive toward. To this day, I have no idea how it ought to end. The combination of no narrative outline and a general lack of interest in HP fandom is killer, and I think it would be a weight off my mind not to have that fic nagging at me anymore.
I hate to abandon a story like that, but it's been de facto abandoned for years now and it's probably best to admit that officially. *sigh*)
This is because the only way I can make PoA make temporal sense is... well, let me quote you a bit from my outline for the epilogue:
NOTE, 8/19/09: Mr. Weasley doesn't win the Daily Prophet Grand Prize Galleon Draw until roughly a week before Harry's birthday, which would be... around July 24, give or take a couple days. So Ginny is back at the Burrow for a month before the Weasleys head to Egypt. I should work that into the narrative.
Or no, wait, Hermione says the picture and the article were in the paper a week ago, and since the picture was taken in Egypt and the Weasleys plan to arrive back in England around... hmm... August 20-25 or so ('about a week' before September), and they're spending 'a month' in Egypt, they must have left around July 17-20 in order to be in Egypt for a few days by the time Ron clipped the article and wrote to Harry. So the Galleon Draw was most likely sometime in early to mid-July. (You know, I can only make this align by assuming JKR was being very inexact about temporal words.)
Anyway, I am so close to the end of this scene I can taste it. I just need to find a graceful way to wind it down, after which I can print out the damned chapter and hack it up with the Editing Pen of DOOM.
It should be around 8,500 in final form -- it's 8,200 right now.
Then I can write the epilogue and finally, finally, finally get this story off my back. *crosses fingers*
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(In related HP writing news, I am thinking seriously of declaring "Strange Likenesses" permanently unfinished. The problem with that story is I started writing it as a one-shot based on an interesting premise, and even when I tried to continue it, I never had a proper plot. Which is to say, it has no story arc and no conclusion for me to drive toward. To this day, I have no idea how it ought to end. The combination of no narrative outline and a general lack of interest in HP fandom is killer, and I think it would be a weight off my mind not to have that fic nagging at me anymore.
I hate to abandon a story like that, but it's been de facto abandoned for years now and it's probably best to admit that officially. *sigh*)
