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[a_t_rain]

Have just been writing up notes and odd bits of dialogue for an HBP-era sequel to Mordant. Probably not novel-length, but definitely substantial.

Am completely nuts. So do not have time for this, and fernwithy has already covered much of this territory in Shades, and done it better.

This is pretty much an addictive drug, isn't it?

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[krisomniac.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes. Most definitely. I went for a run today and defaulted to planning novel length stories.

Ran until I realised that I was getting WAY ahead of myself. Stretched and felt much better.

[jesspallas.livejournal.com]

Yep. It's hell, isn't it? There is no escape... ;)

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Of all the hobbies I could have had, why did I have to pick one that eats up not only time, but brainspace, and cannot be discussed in public without everybody thinking you're a complete weirdo?

[jesspallas.livejournal.com]

Because fic is evil and takes over your weekends, your free writing time and your brain as a matter of course. Plus Remus Lupin is damnably addictive...;)

Never mind. You can always discuss it with us fellow weirdos online...;)

But seriously, you don't have to tell me about it. Whenever my novel comes to a grinding halt, I start a fic to get myself going with my writing again. The fic then takes over completely and I never get back to my novel....

[hannahmarder.livejournal.com]

Of all the hobbies I could have had, why did I have to pick one that eats up not only time, but brainspace, and cannot be discussed in public without everybody thinking you're a complete weirdo?

I often find myself wondering that - oh, and you can't put it on your CV either. Writing fanfic is very addictive - with each of my three novel lengths I've thought 'this will be the last' but then I get a great idea for another... Thanks for the review of tFC, btw, I'm glad you liked it.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Thanks for an excellent story :)

The trouble is that stories breed stories, and Linus' story necessarily had to come to a somewhat open-ended ending at the beginning of the summer of '96, since I had no idea where JKR was going to go in HBP and I wanted to keep things as canon-compliant as possible.

And, as it turned out, I got incredibly lucky, since she didn't do anything to contradict Linus or Celia's existence, and she did give us a whole off-screen plot line about werewolves that I could never have anticipated. And astonishingly, while reading an article on an unrelated historical subject, I saw a way for Martin Miggs to fit into that plot line...

Eee, so exciting.

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Well, I for one am very grateful for your addiction, as your stories have livened up many a dull afternoon.

Anyway, how can you say Fernwithy's work's going to be better than yours? You don't work in the same way at all - it's like comparing... oh, I don't know - internet connections and lightbulbs. Both great things - but comparisons are pretty meaningless.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I was mentally comparing Mordant to Shifts from the very beginning, and worrying that it wouldn't measure up. It was my first attempt at an adult-POV, OotP-timeline story that hewed closely to canon, and there were enough broad similarities of subject matter to make me uneasy, even though I wasn't planning any R/T shippiness at the time. And as for the sequel -- I pretty much have to deal with the shipping since it's canon, and it'll probably be more Remus-centered than the last story and have lots of scenes among the wild werewolves.

You don't work in the same way at all ...

Which is another way of saying she's a perfectionist and I'm not :) :: crosses fingers and hopes that nobody tries to map the events of Mordant onto an actual timeline for the second half of OotP, because they'll find some curious gaps ::

Oh well, at least I have been researching the Ku Klux Klan, while fernwithy was researching wolf packs, so I expect our versions of Greyback's organization will be very different indeed :)

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

Which is another way of saying she's a perfectionist and I'm not :)

Now you're putting words into my mouth. Fernwithy is a perfectionist, and crosses all Ts and dots all Is - but she lacks your flights of fancy. Both are GOOD. There doesn't have to be a BETTER.

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Now you're putting words into my mouth.

Nah, I'm just voicing my own insecurities. Don't let me get to you :)

Both are GOOD. There doesn't have to be a BETTER.

Yeah, I know that -- intellectually. It's just that every now and then, I come across a story that blows me away so much that it's genuinely intimidating, particularly if the author's strengths are in different areas than mine. ('Tis a lot like academia in so many ways...)

[mcgray.livejournal.com]

Well, I must confess that I'm glad you have an addiction to writing fics. Your style and plots are wonderful and so unlike a lot of the overdone scenarios out there that seem to solely focus upon romantic relationships or angsty lack thereof (not that there's anything wrong with those, but it gets very old.) I love how all of the characters, whether OC or canon, have such defined personalities and very human, very three-dimensional. I hate reading stories in which the character becomes a parody of themselves, if that makes any sense.

Hope that you don't mind that I've friended you. Oh, and would it be all right if I archived Mordant at The Full Moony?

[a-t-rain.livejournal.com]

Sure! Absolutely! (To both questions.) And thanks for the kind words!