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hmpfSaid work in progress has, in the last few days, grown by about a page and is now four pages long. I've taken it about as far as I could without having read the fifth book; now I'm getting to the parts where I'm actually beginning to need the political background. I'll have to borrow (and read) the book now. I've even thought about buying parts three through five, just to be able to look things up. But perhaps my friend will give them to me as a long-term loan... *g*
I don't really have the time to write this now, but I want it too much. I haven't written much between, say, May and November last year, and I've missed it. I only realised how much I'd missed it when I wrote my two webcomic fanfics in November. And it's still the most challenging thing I've ever intended to write. I want to do this to see if it's possible, to see if I can do it: write a story with a plot, a story with serious development, a story with plenty of interaction between characters... not just the introspective angst I usually do. (It will still be very angsty and kind of introspective, but not exclusively.) I've decided to give it top priority among all my works in progress now, together with the Farscape 'Frankenstein story' that I want to finish sometime soon. (That one's giving me trouble at the moment - I keep losing the voice. John was never easy for me.)
I've changed the title back to 'A Black-and-White Picture', for various reasons. What you may have read here last April/May is the prologue now, and I'm in chapter 1 now.
I'll need a good beta or two, and people to discuss details of the HP universe with - preferably people who are quite a bit more knowledgeable about it than I am. I know some people here volunteered, when I started writing this story, to help me, but I'm not sure that after more than half a year I can still hold you to that. You may have less time now, or have moved away from the fandom, or whatever.
I've got one question already, actually: do you think there's any magic involved in the owls finding whoever they're supposed to find? They seem to be able to find even people they've never seen, in places they've never been to... And if there is magic involved, is it magic inherent to the owls, or is it magic worked by wizards?
I don't really have the time to write this now, but I want it too much. I haven't written much between, say, May and November last year, and I've missed it. I only realised how much I'd missed it when I wrote my two webcomic fanfics in November. And it's still the most challenging thing I've ever intended to write. I want to do this to see if it's possible, to see if I can do it: write a story with a plot, a story with serious development, a story with plenty of interaction between characters... not just the introspective angst I usually do. (It will still be very angsty and kind of introspective, but not exclusively.) I've decided to give it top priority among all my works in progress now, together with the Farscape 'Frankenstein story' that I want to finish sometime soon. (That one's giving me trouble at the moment - I keep losing the voice. John was never easy for me.)
I've changed the title back to 'A Black-and-White Picture', for various reasons. What you may have read here last April/May is the prologue now, and I'm in chapter 1 now.
I'll need a good beta or two, and people to discuss details of the HP universe with - preferably people who are quite a bit more knowledgeable about it than I am. I know some people here volunteered, when I started writing this story, to help me, but I'm not sure that after more than half a year I can still hold you to that. You may have less time now, or have moved away from the fandom, or whatever.
I've got one question already, actually: do you think there's any magic involved in the owls finding whoever they're supposed to find? They seem to be able to find even people they've never seen, in places they've never been to... And if there is magic involved, is it magic inherent to the owls, or is it magic worked by wizards?
