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A Pottertastic Few Days
Sep. 26th, 2008 01:12 amMy life has been busy, and very filled with Harry Potter related randomness. Which can only be a good thing I think.
Firstly though, I need help. I have finally finished the first chapter of a long fic I've been planning for a while. It could probably do with someone to read through and check my grammar (I have comma issues) and general plotting ( I may be more confusing to others than to myself!). Does anyone know anywhere I could ask for someone to do that? Or would be willing to? And then I would really like to post it some more places, are there any fic sites people would recommend? It's at times like these I really miss The Sugar Quill. It seems to have totally gone away, and this makes me quite upset...
Anyway, back to tales of how Harry Potter has taken over my life, but improves it, really!
On Tuesday I worked a crazy 14 hour day, leaving home a 6 and getting back at 8. The job mainly involved sitting in a field, so I got a lot of reading done, some for university and then a re-read of Havemercy because it makes me happy. I found Havemercy because it was written by one of the writers of the Shoebox Project, one of the loveliest, funniest, cleverest pieces of writing, never mind fanfic, I have ever encountered. I also listened to various things from the awesome![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
longcarrides - The Shoebox Project and other things read aloud by the most talented Colline. It pretty much saved me from dying of boredom. I was also very much amused by the fact that one of my co workers was called Miss Amber Snape, who sounded so much like the heroine of a bad Mary Sue fic that I spent a lot of time in her company suppressing bad jokes. It’s not my fault, I function badly on little sleep! When she mentioned her father was a teacher I may have laughed, ever so slightly. It brightened up a grey, dull, cold pavement at 6.30 in the morning. See how HP makes life better.
Being on my own in the middle of the countryside was also very conducive to writing, so I finished my chapter and finally got round to writing something forsq_drabblers , a community I try to write 300 words for each week. It's a great little group. Finally, I started a sequel to this - http://community.livejournal.com/thremedon/13758.html. Because it makes me all happy and smiley and romantic. Although its schmoopey.
However this did mean that throughout the whole evening a sizeable section of my brain was taken up with trying to untangle a plot point. And this made conversations rather difficult, and my entire contribution to supper was leaning on a counter, waving a spoon towards my boyfriend who was cooking in his suit with the shirtsleeves rolled up and saying "aesthetically pleasing." And the other part of my brain went, ‘that would be a great scene. I'm pretty sure people would appreciate the cuteness.’
And then yesterday I got home from another long day at Fresher’s Fair, explaining the 3 main points of the Leeds Tibet Society to people and giving out flyers. And going “No, we are not Free Tibet. Too single issue and militant. The free pizza is over there.” To sooth me I read a lot of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarahtales . Maya!fic makes me feel better, and the discussion all over the place makes me feel better about being this obsessed. I.e obsessed enough to make this entire post… Also I love to analyse.
So, in short, Yay fandom! Yay Harry Potter!
Firstly though, I need help. I have finally finished the first chapter of a long fic I've been planning for a while. It could probably do with someone to read through and check my grammar (I have comma issues) and general plotting ( I may be more confusing to others than to myself!). Does anyone know anywhere I could ask for someone to do that? Or would be willing to? And then I would really like to post it some more places, are there any fic sites people would recommend? It's at times like these I really miss The Sugar Quill. It seems to have totally gone away, and this makes me quite upset...
Anyway, back to tales of how Harry Potter has taken over my life, but improves it, really!
On Tuesday I worked a crazy 14 hour day, leaving home a 6 and getting back at 8. The job mainly involved sitting in a field, so I got a lot of reading done, some for university and then a re-read of Havemercy because it makes me happy. I found Havemercy because it was written by one of the writers of the Shoebox Project, one of the loveliest, funniest, cleverest pieces of writing, never mind fanfic, I have ever encountered. I also listened to various things from the awesome
longcarrides - The Shoebox Project and other things read aloud by the most talented Colline. It pretty much saved me from dying of boredom. I was also very much amused by the fact that one of my co workers was called Miss Amber Snape, who sounded so much like the heroine of a bad Mary Sue fic that I spent a lot of time in her company suppressing bad jokes. It’s not my fault, I function badly on little sleep! When she mentioned her father was a teacher I may have laughed, ever so slightly. It brightened up a grey, dull, cold pavement at 6.30 in the morning. See how HP makes life better.Being on my own in the middle of the countryside was also very conducive to writing, so I finished my chapter and finally got round to writing something for
sq_drabblers , a community I try to write 300 words for each week. It's a great little group. Finally, I started a sequel to this - http://community.livejournal.com/thremedon/13758.html. Because it makes me all happy and smiley and romantic. Although its schmoopey.However this did mean that throughout the whole evening a sizeable section of my brain was taken up with trying to untangle a plot point. And this made conversations rather difficult, and my entire contribution to supper was leaning on a counter, waving a spoon towards my boyfriend who was cooking in his suit with the shirtsleeves rolled up and saying "aesthetically pleasing." And the other part of my brain went, ‘that would be a great scene. I'm pretty sure people would appreciate the cuteness.’
And then yesterday I got home from another long day at Fresher’s Fair, explaining the 3 main points of the Leeds Tibet Society to people and giving out flyers. And going “No, we are not Free Tibet. Too single issue and militant. The free pizza is over there.” To sooth me I read a lot of
sarahtales . Maya!fic makes me feel better, and the discussion all over the place makes me feel better about being this obsessed. I.e obsessed enough to make this entire post… Also I love to analyse.So, in short, Yay fandom! Yay Harry Potter!
