Short Progress Report

[lomonaaeren]

Soldier’s Welcome: I’m drawing the threads into place for the ending. I think I can confidently predict that this story should be over at 45 chapters. And now I have a major part of the plot for the sequel, Ceremonies of Strife, worked out, based on something that happened in the last few chapters of this one.

Practicing Liars: I think the reveal of Snape as Harry’s father (at least, the reveal to other people besides Harry) will happen sometime around Chapter 18. A few other plot developments have to take place first, and I’m not yet sure how long they’ll take.

“Another Country”: I started this fic today, and it’s now 4000 words long. And it has the potential to be much longer than I anticipated, goddamnit. There is a whole subplot with Narcissa that sprang out of nowhere because I asked a simple question—“Why would Draco be in St. Mungo’s?”—and which needs more room.

But so far, I really like this Draco, who is more mature than most of those I usually write, and this Harry is being stubborn and determined and all the qualities I like in him from canon. Plus, it’s fun to write a bit of Latin dialogue now and then.

“Difficulties of Being”: I’m doing 1000 words on this (Albus Severus/Scorpius, Harry/Draco) fic a day, about as much as I can with my other writing and my job and the fact that I would like to murder Al in this story because he is so selfish and short-sighted. (Well, he’s a teenager, what do you expect?) It’s reached a little more than 11,500 words. If this is a successful experiment, then I think I’ll use the same method of 1000 words a day to write other non-H/D pairing fics. I have a Snarry called “Amalgamations” in mind, and a Harry/Lucius called “Sympathy for the Predators.”