Friends Only!

[snarry_fan7]

Due to the recent events on LJ, I have decided to make my journal friends only. As long as you don't seem to be a troll or a stalker I have no problem friending anyone. Just leave a comment here and I'll get to it as soon as possible. It's not necessary to leave your age or birth date, if you want to I won't stop you though.

I had a Friends Only pic up, but I'm sick of seeing the PhotoBucket crap plastered over it, so I took it down. I wish DW would let us directly upload a photo on a post.

Comments

[snarry_fan7]

I wouldn't say wonderful. It's just how I can do it.

Ah, how you've explained how you read also explains how you learn languages. I am a very fast reader. I don't see individual words. I see the sentence or even paragraph as a whole. When it comes to anything relaying a story or event, whether fiction or non-fiction, I have a sort of visual movie in my head giving me an actual image of what's going on or what has happened (if an historical event).

I don't like hearing myself talk, so I would never make podfics of any of my own stories and probably wouldn't make podfics or audiobooks in general because of that.

I don't know what it is about the HP world that makes me write that like. I've managed a few very short ones, basically drabbles and double drabbles, or something no longer than about 1,000 words, but it's very rare and those aren't things I'd put on AO3 or anywhere. With the HP world, I guess I feel the need to provide more explanations of my interpretations of that world, whether it's the characters, environment/surroundings, or magic. Other fandoms make it a little easier. If I were to write Lord of the Rings fic I think I would face a similar problem owing to the complexity and detail of Middle Earth.

[paulamcg]

Since I’ve shared fic on AO3 and fic-related posts on my DW, it’s taken me a while to get back here. Thank you for still replying!

Now I can’t resist quoting… Ah, how you've explained how you read also explains how what you had to say after reading a couple of my short stories was just that my Remus is okay! I wish there were readers who read – even listened – to every word I’ve carefully chosen, but I guess I’m an anomaly with my writing.

Yes, I agree that the complexity of the worlds must be a reason why people end up writing long fic in HP and LotR. When I started (right after OotP came out), I thought that fanfic was about writing a chaptered story like Rowling’s, because others on the forum posted about the beginning of Harry’s sixth year. I just chose an adult’s perspective and ended up not covering a school year but expanding the world and going deeper, so that the story turned into a novel.

Only after six months or so did I write my first short story, and it was redoing a scene of my novel from another perspective. After that it’s been easier to feel motivated to and succeed in writing sharable drabbles and short stories of any length (from 500 to 20 000 words). I enjoy the challenge of making each of them work separately – some of them even separately from the canon, like the two drabbles I reposted the other day on my DW, too – while adding something meaningful to the whole big story and including references to various parts of it.

[snarry_fan7]

That method of doing shorter stories as small scenes from a different perspective can work well. I haven't tried that, but it's something I might do at a later date. Stay at home orders aren't actually conducive to me doing much writing at all since I'm currently staying with my parents and there are too many distractions around me; no real privacy since my original bedroom is being redone/fixed up and there aren't any good places for privacy as a result.