Progress Report
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lomonaaeren3/3: This is something I’ll be trying to do on a weekly basis from now on, partially because I often lose track of the date when something was posted, partially because I sometimes feel impatient with the pace at which I write stories and it would be good to have something to remind me of what I have actually accomplished in a week. (Also, next week I’ll be going on a trip and I really won’t get a chance to work on the stories for six days or so).
Inter Vivos: Nine chapters to go, one posted this week so far, on Monday. This continues to be challenging, partially because it’s an AU, partially because for some reason the chapters are extremely long. At least I have a plot set up for sixth year now.
Siege Mentality: Two chapters to go, one posted this week so far, on Sunday. (I do hope to have this one finished before I leave). Now I just need to accomplish the resolution without a lot of talk-talky-talking.
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hd_worldcup fic: Technically finished, but still in the process of polishing. Needs to be finished by the end of this week.
“The Nightingale and the Kingfisher”: One-shot, a much-belated birthday fic. I hope to get this finished this week, but unfortunately I don’t really know how long it will be. If 10,000 words, as I’m hoping for, then it will be doable, as I would be about halfway through.
“Viper”: Vampire fic, sequel to Mongoose. The plot continues to give me fits. I know what most of it consists of, but not how to get Harry and Draco—immovable object and irresistible force as they are in this universe—to respond positively to it. For any value of “positive.”
Intoxicate the Sun: I described this novel here. I’ve decided on it as my next novel-length work after Inter Vivos finishes, which will probably be sometime in April. I wouldn’t plan on it that soon, except that I know the ending now.
“Idyll”: Harry has tried to recover from the war with the help of Mind-Healers and various potions. It didn’t work. He’s discovered a spell that he thinks will help, by transporting him to a quiet green place where he doesn’t have to do anything and can recover absolutely at his leisure. But for the spell to work, he has to attain a Zen-like state of mind and withdraw from most of his connections with other people. He thinks he’s managed it by working hard for the happiness of his friends and loved ones, so that they won’t need him while he’s gone—except for Draco Malfoy, who wants a friend, and whom Harry has a life-debt to.
“Said the Tortoise to the Hare”: This would be a Draco-centric story. He’s interested in Harry, but he sees the way Harry reacts to the people who want to date him after he breaks up with Ginny, and knows that he won’t get what he wants by pressure and coercion. The moral of the story, of course, to fit with the title, is “Slow and steady wins the race,” and Draco gets to have fun watching a few people make complete fools of themselves in front of Harry, while he himself slowly gains Harry’s trust and friendship.
“Loved I Not Honor More”: Short, angsty one-shot, about which I can’t say more for fear of ruining the plot.
“Power and Pleasure”: Will probably come closest to a PWP of anything I’ve written, in that it does have multiple sex scenes within a fairly small amount of words and it is focused on sex as a means of expressing character. Harry and Draco are both frustrated after the war: Draco because he can’t connect emotions with fucking, Harry because there’s always some problem when he tries to go to bed with a woman. They find the answer in each other. (Of course). Will include lots of description of foreplay and desire, which I often find sexier than actual sex.
“Virgin Revelry”: AU from the end of HBP, in which Hermione determines that the only way Harry can successfully defeat Voldemort is if he a) undergoes a certain magical ritual and b) swears to remain a virgin the rest of his life. Harry does this, Voldemort disappears, and Harry does his best to live with it and to sit back and laugh at the marriage proposals and such that he receives. Then Draco gets in contact with him and tells him that, by undergoing that ritual, he actually made himself the perfect vessel for a virgin sacrifice to ensure Voldemort’s return. But the problem’s not going to be as simple as having sex, since Hermione is also right that Harry needs to remain a virgin or Voldemort will come back. So how are they going to solve this one?
Inter Vivos: Nine chapters to go, one posted this week so far, on Monday. This continues to be challenging, partially because it’s an AU, partially because for some reason the chapters are extremely long. At least I have a plot set up for sixth year now.
Siege Mentality: Two chapters to go, one posted this week so far, on Sunday. (I do hope to have this one finished before I leave). Now I just need to accomplish the resolution without a lot of talk-talky-talking.
hd_worldcup fic: Technically finished, but still in the process of polishing. Needs to be finished by the end of this week. “The Nightingale and the Kingfisher”: One-shot, a much-belated birthday fic. I hope to get this finished this week, but unfortunately I don’t really know how long it will be. If 10,000 words, as I’m hoping for, then it will be doable, as I would be about halfway through.
“Viper”: Vampire fic, sequel to Mongoose. The plot continues to give me fits. I know what most of it consists of, but not how to get Harry and Draco—immovable object and irresistible force as they are in this universe—to respond positively to it. For any value of “positive.”
Intoxicate the Sun: I described this novel here. I’ve decided on it as my next novel-length work after Inter Vivos finishes, which will probably be sometime in April. I wouldn’t plan on it that soon, except that I know the ending now.
“Idyll”: Harry has tried to recover from the war with the help of Mind-Healers and various potions. It didn’t work. He’s discovered a spell that he thinks will help, by transporting him to a quiet green place where he doesn’t have to do anything and can recover absolutely at his leisure. But for the spell to work, he has to attain a Zen-like state of mind and withdraw from most of his connections with other people. He thinks he’s managed it by working hard for the happiness of his friends and loved ones, so that they won’t need him while he’s gone—except for Draco Malfoy, who wants a friend, and whom Harry has a life-debt to.
“Said the Tortoise to the Hare”: This would be a Draco-centric story. He’s interested in Harry, but he sees the way Harry reacts to the people who want to date him after he breaks up with Ginny, and knows that he won’t get what he wants by pressure and coercion. The moral of the story, of course, to fit with the title, is “Slow and steady wins the race,” and Draco gets to have fun watching a few people make complete fools of themselves in front of Harry, while he himself slowly gains Harry’s trust and friendship.
“Loved I Not Honor More”: Short, angsty one-shot, about which I can’t say more for fear of ruining the plot.
“Power and Pleasure”: Will probably come closest to a PWP of anything I’ve written, in that it does have multiple sex scenes within a fairly small amount of words and it is focused on sex as a means of expressing character. Harry and Draco are both frustrated after the war: Draco because he can’t connect emotions with fucking, Harry because there’s always some problem when he tries to go to bed with a woman. They find the answer in each other. (Of course). Will include lots of description of foreplay and desire, which I often find sexier than actual sex.
“Virgin Revelry”: AU from the end of HBP, in which Hermione determines that the only way Harry can successfully defeat Voldemort is if he a) undergoes a certain magical ritual and b) swears to remain a virgin the rest of his life. Harry does this, Voldemort disappears, and Harry does his best to live with it and to sit back and laugh at the marriage proposals and such that he receives. Then Draco gets in contact with him and tells him that, by undergoing that ritual, he actually made himself the perfect vessel for a virgin sacrifice to ensure Voldemort’s return. But the problem’s not going to be as simple as having sex, since Hermione is also right that Harry needs to remain a virgin or Voldemort will come back. So how are they going to solve this one?
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Date: 2009-03-04 12:19 am (UTC)*can't wait for intoxicate the sun*
though I wonder if I will have the time to read it.. *sigh* in April I will be stressed out over organising that convention I'm in the organisation team of, and then semester is starting again... *sigh*
so, basically I will put off things I SHOULD do for reading your stories again XDDDDD
virgin revelry sounds very interesting as well *__*
you are great!
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Date: 2009-03-05 02:00 am (UTC)I'm wondering when I'll have time to write it, at this point. But April will be a better month for me in some ways.