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Post by Author By Night on Mar 1, 2009 15:34:17 GMT -5
Got a plot bunny, but aren't sure how to turn it into a story?
Are you in the middle of a story, and finding that you're now stuck?
Talk about your ideas, predicaments, and anything else dealing with your work here. Snippets may be included.
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Post by vegablack on Mar 10, 2009 15:30:39 GMT -5
I'm writing a story that is being done for an anonymous challenge community so I can't talk about it, but it is getting out of hand growing bigger and bigger. Keeping up with this thing is why I haven't posted in a long time.
Before that I wrote a story inspired by some of the discussion on this thread about an Auror at the defeat of Voldemort called "Last Day at the Ministry."
I write Drabbles weekly for the sq_drabblers community.
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Post by birdg on Mar 12, 2009 16:00:48 GMT -5
I have a few I'm working on at the moment.
-- One is set after the epilogue following Scorpius Malfoy's years through Hogwarts. It's currently undergoing a title change which is why I'm not posting it here.
-- Another, a sort of prequel to the above, focuses on the beginning of Draco and Asteria's relationship. This is the first story I have written where I only have a very vague idea where it's going, so that should be fun.
I have a few others in the works but theyre mostly connected to the universe above. And since I'm one of the mods of the Scorpius/Rose exchange, I have a feeling I'll be writing another fic about those two soon.
Also, I'm not sure if this is the place for it, but I'm also involved in an RPG where I play Amycus Carrow, Asteria Greengrass and Ron Weasley! It's set during DH and it's a lot of fun.
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Post by Author By Night on Mar 15, 2009 9:45:48 GMT -5
You guys have a lot of great ideas going!  Do you think you can summarize it without mentioning the characters? Maybe we can give you some pointers. Sometimes stories are meant to be bigger than we planned; I've written a forty-something chapter fanfic before... that was definitely not meant to be 40+ chapters!  That said, I think it is wise to cut anything you feel is unnecessary. Are there extra details you may not need? Scenes that might not really do a lot for the story, as fun as they may have been to write? There's a Scorpius/Rose exchange? Intriguing. (And a little tempting, but I've already got enough of my plate!) |
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Post by maraudercat on Mar 19, 2009 3:40:43 GMT -5
Shoot me down now if you like, but i've just never understood why 99% of the ff community feels the need to ship Rose/Scorpius. In what little I have written of them, I see them as having little to do with eachother beyond mild house rivalry (I have SM in slytherin, RWand AP in Gryff), and a touch of academic rivalry (no more than you would expect between any relatively bright students in the same year)
Still each to their own I guess.
Current *ahem* writing projects for me are an ongoing Narcissa/Lucius piece to prompts, and random next-gen and marauder one-shots
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Post by birdg on Mar 19, 2009 4:24:57 GMT -5
Well, I could turn it around and say why do you see the need to deny a potential relationship between them?  But, since neither of us is JKR, neither of us knows what - if anything - she has planned for those two. I'm one of those who thinks she was definitely hinting at something between them in the epilogue since that whole "plz don't marry him" is a bit extraneous and - unlike most of the dialogue in the epilogue - serves no purpose if not to hint at something. And the Albus Severus/Scorpius shippers greatly outnumber the Rose/Scorpius shippers so it's definitely not 99% of the fanfic community shipping them. It's actually a rare pair, even among the Next Gen. Even if you don't join, feel free to watch the fest ( www.livejournal.com/~smrw_ficafest)! Some great writers have already signed-up. |
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Post by queenie on Mar 19, 2009 19:01:35 GMT -5
Well, in January I finished the OC-centric fanfiction that I'd spent a year working on. Now, I'm working on two sequels to it, neither of which is intended to be very long: - one story is being written out in longhand, and it resolves two very important issues that I left unresolved at the end of my first story. It explores the repercussions of the First War on the Ollivander family in more detail. Problem: What do you do when you come home to suddenly find that twenty years have passed, yet you haven't aged a day? - the other story is in four parts, each supposed to take place after Deathly Hallows. Each chapter explores one of four different situations, depending on two variables: if such-and-such a person dies, and if so-and-so gets his memory Modified. This is in Microsoft Word, so each chapter is a work in separate progress, though chapters one and three are really pretty much done. Problem: What do you do when someone from another country comes, claiming that they are your fiancee, and they have evidence, but you have no memory? As you can see, the main problem's I'm facing are questions of how would a character react to this? They're extremely hypothetical situations, so I can't just, y'know, ask my parents for help.  |
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Post by dancingpony on May 16, 2009 22:00:51 GMT -5
I'm responding to this really late, so you may have worked out your problem, but I did beta a story with a similar plot in another fandom. In that case, it was amnesia rather than a memory charm, but I think the same principle applies: how the character responds is a function of his or her basic personality traits.
In the story I beta'd, the character had been a "playboy" type before he met his fiance, so he initially reverted to his playboy ways, but as time went by, he found himself attracted to the qualities in his fiance that had attracted him the first time around.
I don't know your character, but I think how he/she responds is going to depend what kind of person he/she is. If your character is suspicious, that person is going to react with suspicion. If your character is timid, he or she will react differently than a person who is very self-confident. If your character is self-centered, that person will react differently than a person who is very empathetic. And so on.
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Post by queenie on Jun 22, 2009 2:34:40 GMT -5
Well, I finished that sequel (thank you, dancingpony, for your advice) and was content to rest on my laurels - not that anyone but me has seen my laurels. But, I was happy. I had completed the story that I set out to tell way back on December the sixth, in the year of our lord two thousand and seven. It was a cohesive work, and I looked on my work and saw that it was good enough to satisfy me.
Now I'm finding myself starting another sequel. What the heck! It's set at least eleven years in the future from where I left off. Not sure where I'll go with it, but I've got a really good idea, one that I like a lot.
Plus I have a yen to finish my Avatar: the Last Airbender fanfic. And to commit the ideas from my ancient and decrepit Sailor Moon fanfiction to hard drive at last. AND to finish the sequel to my proper HP fanfiction that I haven't done yet!
Summertime, when the living is easy...
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Post by starsea on Jun 30, 2009 11:59:57 GMT -5
Watching for Wolves... still... 
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Post by dancingpony on Jul 8, 2009 15:10:16 GMT -5
Well, I finished that sequel (thank you, dancingpony, for your advice) and was content to rest on my laurels - not that anyone but me has seen my laurels. But, I was happy. I had completed the story that I set out to tell way back on December the sixth, in the year of our lord two thousand and seven. It was a cohesive work, and I looked on my work and saw that it was good enough to satisfy me. Now I'm finding myself starting another sequel. What the heck! It's set at least eleven years in the future from where I left off. Not sure where I'll go with it, but I've got a really good idea, one that I like a lot. Plus I have a yen to finish my Avatar: the Last Airbender fanfic. And to commit the ideas from my ancient and decrepit Sailor Moon fanfiction to hard drive at last. AND to finish the sequel to my proper HP fanfiction that I haven't done yet! Summertime, when the living is easy... My daughter is very much into both Avatar and Sailor Moon -- reading and drawing, though, not writing. I managed to get the next chapter of "A Butterfly's Wings" finished and beta'd -- and then the free time I anticipated in late June and early July vanished into a black hole. I will write this week . . . I will write this week . . . I will write this week . . . . |
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Post by nundu on Jul 9, 2009 19:31:11 GMT -5
Watching for Wolves... still... Good!! I love that story! I signed up for RWHG_LDWS on LJ. Today was the deadline for the first drabble. It's a real stretch for me, as RWHG has never been a ship I've written a lot. |
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Post by queenie on May 1, 2010 20:38:34 GMT -5
... Good for you.
Meanwhile, for those of us who do not write in RPG's, I am...
Still trying to finish up the dastardly His Dark Materials/Avatar, the Last Airbender crossover. I admit I'm having a great time writing Azula.
Have begun a new short story in Legend of Zelda: the Twilight Princess. Zelda is the only canon where I don't need or even like original characters. Agitha, Princess of Bugs, is such a great mine of inspiration.
I've written out a little short story (honestly Little this time! Short! I can't believe it!) about Dora Tonks, from the point of view of my OC, Calliope Ollivander.
Also, I'm writing a screenplay for (of course) my screenwriting class; it's up to about 42 pages now (mostly in screenwriter format) and coming along. It's a modern day adaptation of Les Mis, so I do indeed have my work cut out for me.
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Post by siriusgirl on Jul 13, 2010 14:23:14 GMT -5
I like writing little vignettes about my two main OCs: Laura Gamp (an aristocratic, pureblood Slytherin, albeit a good Slytherin), and her best friend, Abigail Patterson. They're in the same year as Fred and George Weasley, and became friends in sixth year
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