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.”

Comments

[allycat-aria.livejournal.com]

Soldier's Welcome and Practicing Liars are love and it's so neat to see these little progress reports on where you're going. I ma bouncing off the edge of my seat for Another Country. And I (normally) really enjoy your Narcissa, so I can't wait to read it, subplots and all!

Generally, I'm not fond of the epilogue children, especially as teenagers (although I loved your Scorpius). But I'm intrigued, because you're covering a topic I don't think is normally covered when people write about the children. I'm looking forward to reading that "Lomonaaeren". Heehee.. you've become my standard when I read stories now.

Ohhh~ It seems like you're branching out into some other pairings. I love your Severus. Every one of them. So I'm sure to enjoy Amalgamations. And Harry/Lucius is something I've always liked the 'idea' of, but never liked the execution. But I know that's not to worry with you!

So excited~

[lomonaaeren.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

One of the reasons I generally don't read next-gen is that a lot of the conflicts seem artificial, or simply retreads of H/D fic. (Or sometimes they're complete fluff without conflict at all, which doesn't work for me). So it was a long time before I thought of a next-gen plot that would appeal to me.

I hope you will like this Harry/Lucius. I like the dynamic I've come up with for it.