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lomonaaeren) wrote2009-10-04 09:17 pm
lomonaaeren) wrote2009-10-04 09:17 pm
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Progress Report!
Hello again! I had a great vacation. Thanks for all the good wishes.
I haven’t done one of these in a while; it seemed like a good way to celebrate coming back.
Soldier’s Welcome: I still have no idea how long this will be, unfortunately. I originally thought somewhere between 23 and 25 chapters, but I’m on Chapter 19 now and have finished less than half the training year. I think I’ll give up trying to estimate, though it probably won’t end up much longer than 44 chapters. And, of course, there are two more stories to come after that…
Corybantes: This has just one chapter to go (sorry for everyone who suffered over the cliffhanger!) and I’m pretty pleased with it. I think I’ve managed to tie together the solution to the murder with the end of the plot about Harry’s repressed fantasies.
Of the ideas I’ve mentioned before, the ones I’m most interested in at the moment are “Difficulties of Being,” the Albus/Scorpius fic where Albus becomes upset when he finds out that Harry and Draco are also sleeping together, and “Heraclitean Fire,” where Harry is afflicted with a horrible curse and Draco wants to do something equally horrific to him to cure it. I’ll probably work on them in bits and pieces.
I also have a new idea for a one-shot, and a new idea for a novel-length fic that will be the next one I take up when “Corybantes” is done.
The new one-shot would be called “Bastardy/Opportunity.” As the split title probably suggests, this is a split-perspective fic. From Ginny’s POV, it’s the story of how Draco poisoned Harry against his friends and fiancée as a bizarre form of revenge. From Draco’s POV, it’s the story of how he moved in when he saw an opportunity and woke Harry to the way that his friends and fiancée were using him, while simultaneously seducing him. I think this will be fun to write simply because I’ll do a few of the same scenes from different perspectives and show how they can, in fact, be interpreted in two entirely different ways. (At least two). A lot of the stories where Harry backs away from his friends show them acting completely objectionable (including some I’ve written), but of course, that’s not how they would see it themselves. At the same time, Harry needs a good reason for listening to Draco in the first place.
The novel-length fic is being written for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
soft2smooth2000, who compiled and keeps up with my master fic lists. She gave me several different requests, a few of which I’ve combined into a (mostly, anyway) gen story called Practicing Liars. It’s one of those ‘Harry finds out that he’s Snape’s son’ fics, but in this case, Harry discovers the information long before Snape—and deliberately conceals it from him, in part because he can’t imagine that Snape would be other than abusive towards him, probably worse than his relatives. (It will also involve a slightly more realistic version of how and why Snape and Lily managed to conceive Harry. Some of the explanations I’ve read that attempt to make that possible are extremely bizarre).
The story then becomes a sixth-year AU in which Snape and Dumbledore have come up with a rather different plot: rather than Snape killing Dumbledore who is in reality slowly dying, it will look as though Dumbledore is slowly dying from an exaggerated version of what happened to him when he tried to destroy Slytherin’s ring, while in reality Snape managed to help him recover. This is to bait Voldemort into an early attack before he’s fully gathered his strength. Snape also isn’t bound by an Unbreakable Vow, because in this AU Bellatrix’s loyalty to Voldemort outweighed her loyalty to her sister and she refused to let Narcissa go see Snape. Voldemort also has no reason to assign Draco to kill Dumbledore when he thinks Dumbledore is already dying. Draco’s task is to let Death Eaters into the school instead (something Narcissa would have liked to give him protection for, even so). But Snape is still teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, and that’s when he starts noticing that, you know, Harry really is good at this, his own prejudices notwithstanding. So he becomes critical of Harry and interested in him in another way long before he knows that he’s his son.
Harry, meanwhile, is trying to figure out what’s going on with Draco, if he needs protection or he’s up to evil plots or what, and is entirely unappreciative of Snape’s new interest in him. (Draco will be in the story, but not that major a player; he and Harry will probably have a cautious friendship rather than a slash relationship). The way he traipses around after Draco gives Snape another reason to try and corral Harry, because he and Dumbledore know the situation there is delicate and they’re trying to manipulate Draco around to their side subtly—something Harry’s interference could endanger. And then he starts noticing that Harry’s appearance is changing, though in weird ways…
We’ll see how this goes. I’m really excited about writing it, but I know it also treads on ground a lot of stories have covered before this, and I’ve already written one Snape-as-Harry’s-mentor fic, so it will need to be different from those and that.
Hope everyone had a great week!
I haven’t done one of these in a while; it seemed like a good way to celebrate coming back.
Soldier’s Welcome: I still have no idea how long this will be, unfortunately. I originally thought somewhere between 23 and 25 chapters, but I’m on Chapter 19 now and have finished less than half the training year. I think I’ll give up trying to estimate, though it probably won’t end up much longer than 44 chapters. And, of course, there are two more stories to come after that…
Corybantes: This has just one chapter to go (sorry for everyone who suffered over the cliffhanger!) and I’m pretty pleased with it. I think I’ve managed to tie together the solution to the murder with the end of the plot about Harry’s repressed fantasies.
Of the ideas I’ve mentioned before, the ones I’m most interested in at the moment are “Difficulties of Being,” the Albus/Scorpius fic where Albus becomes upset when he finds out that Harry and Draco are also sleeping together, and “Heraclitean Fire,” where Harry is afflicted with a horrible curse and Draco wants to do something equally horrific to him to cure it. I’ll probably work on them in bits and pieces.
I also have a new idea for a one-shot, and a new idea for a novel-length fic that will be the next one I take up when “Corybantes” is done.
The new one-shot would be called “Bastardy/Opportunity.” As the split title probably suggests, this is a split-perspective fic. From Ginny’s POV, it’s the story of how Draco poisoned Harry against his friends and fiancée as a bizarre form of revenge. From Draco’s POV, it’s the story of how he moved in when he saw an opportunity and woke Harry to the way that his friends and fiancée were using him, while simultaneously seducing him. I think this will be fun to write simply because I’ll do a few of the same scenes from different perspectives and show how they can, in fact, be interpreted in two entirely different ways. (At least two). A lot of the stories where Harry backs away from his friends show them acting completely objectionable (including some I’ve written), but of course, that’s not how they would see it themselves. At the same time, Harry needs a good reason for listening to Draco in the first place.
The novel-length fic is being written for
soft2smooth2000, who compiled and keeps up with my master fic lists. She gave me several different requests, a few of which I’ve combined into a (mostly, anyway) gen story called Practicing Liars. It’s one of those ‘Harry finds out that he’s Snape’s son’ fics, but in this case, Harry discovers the information long before Snape—and deliberately conceals it from him, in part because he can’t imagine that Snape would be other than abusive towards him, probably worse than his relatives. (It will also involve a slightly more realistic version of how and why Snape and Lily managed to conceive Harry. Some of the explanations I’ve read that attempt to make that possible are extremely bizarre). The story then becomes a sixth-year AU in which Snape and Dumbledore have come up with a rather different plot: rather than Snape killing Dumbledore who is in reality slowly dying, it will look as though Dumbledore is slowly dying from an exaggerated version of what happened to him when he tried to destroy Slytherin’s ring, while in reality Snape managed to help him recover. This is to bait Voldemort into an early attack before he’s fully gathered his strength. Snape also isn’t bound by an Unbreakable Vow, because in this AU Bellatrix’s loyalty to Voldemort outweighed her loyalty to her sister and she refused to let Narcissa go see Snape. Voldemort also has no reason to assign Draco to kill Dumbledore when he thinks Dumbledore is already dying. Draco’s task is to let Death Eaters into the school instead (something Narcissa would have liked to give him protection for, even so). But Snape is still teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, and that’s when he starts noticing that, you know, Harry really is good at this, his own prejudices notwithstanding. So he becomes critical of Harry and interested in him in another way long before he knows that he’s his son.
Harry, meanwhile, is trying to figure out what’s going on with Draco, if he needs protection or he’s up to evil plots or what, and is entirely unappreciative of Snape’s new interest in him. (Draco will be in the story, but not that major a player; he and Harry will probably have a cautious friendship rather than a slash relationship). The way he traipses around after Draco gives Snape another reason to try and corral Harry, because he and Dumbledore know the situation there is delicate and they’re trying to manipulate Draco around to their side subtly—something Harry’s interference could endanger. And then he starts noticing that Harry’s appearance is changing, though in weird ways…
We’ll see how this goes. I’m really excited about writing it, but I know it also treads on ground a lot of stories have covered before this, and I’ve already written one Snape-as-Harry’s-mentor fic, so it will need to be different from those and that.
Hope everyone had a great week!