Serial Fiction Experiment Update

[hobgoblinn]

Well, I haven't brought back to life anybody I killed off, but I have found myself adjusting the plot of previous posted segments of "In Loco" a bit. Much earlier, I wrote some new material for Part 1, going into more detail about the curse and how Snape knows about it, and why Harry can't just pop back to Hogwarts.

Today, I decided that Snape knows the Trio were after Something, some artifact, but not that they are horcruxes. It'll be fun to see how he reacts when he finds out what these kids were expected to find and destroy on their own. The horcrux hunt does not interest me in the slightest, and this story will likely end before that gets going in earnest.

In general, I am finding this experiment nerve wracking, but it's also forcing me to be more centered on the latest section, with little regard for what will come (hence the revisions) and it's making me take note of how other authors solve problems in ways I might also employ. A lot of the fics I've been reading, and especially reccing lately have been teaching me quite a bit.

I am getting some neat flashes of future scenes, though, and trying to work out where they will fit in. Sadly, the best ideas come while I'm driving or otherwise unable to write them down....

Happy night to all.

Comments

[whitestar-alpha.livejournal.com]

Do they still make those tiny hand held tape recorders or whatever they're called? If you got one of those, it'd be handy in the car and you could voice your ideas into it whenever the ideas came to you.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, someone else recently suggested that to me. But I am not sure I could bear to hear the stupid things that would come out of my mouth, or the way my voice would sound speaking my ideas aloud. But I do have such a recorder. Wee Hob is using it to compose his essays on Boy Scout Law, and What I am Going to Do to Turn My Bad Choices Around.

[samson28.livejournal.com]

I have to admit to enjoying all of your recs. It's nice to be able to sit down and read a story and not have to search the good ones out.

I used to have so much spare time to read but that is now limited to 2, 3 hours a day if I'm lucky. :( Woe is me.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Glad you've been enjoying them.

I don't know how I never got around to friending you, but I just rectified that. Don't you have a newish little one who takes up some of your former reading time?

I'm lucky that I read very fast, and that when work is slow, I have a Lot of time to surf. So much so that I'm kinda running out of things to read. I've been finding some new stuff checking out the favs of people reading In Loco on ff net, but even that is starting to go dry-- I'm seeing the same fics listed over and over.

I do have some buffyverse fics to read and judge before Monday-- but hey, that's Days away....

[samson28.livejournal.com]

Glad to be friended, I shall have to make a post in my lj just so people don't forget I'm there. :)

Yep, to having a little one, she's just celebrated her first birthday and what with her older brother it doesn't leave much fun time for me! It really is lucky that I read fast. *g*

I like Buffy and have been reading in that fandom since 2000! I'll pretty much read anything if it stays still long enough - although I always have one character I focus in per fandom. :)

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Wow-- you are a long timer. Let me see, wonder who's your character in that fandom?

How'd you come to my journal? "Lost Boys", maybe? I got a lot of people who friended around then and being fairly new to it all, I didn't know what to do right away....

Anyway, thanks, glad to be here, and glad to have had you around on my journal up to now.

cool new icon, pretty much sums up work right now.

[samson28.livejournal.com]

The Spike icon is quite unusual for me. I love making icons but usually never of my favourite characters. :)

I discovered your journal through Lost Boys and am now thoroughly enjoying your new story. I'm a Snape addict through and through. Glad to be here on your journal.

Great icon, pretty much sums up work for me, too. Although I'm on hol at the moment as I work in a school! Yeah for Easter.

[snarkysneak.livejournal.com]

I am getting some neat flashes of future scenes, though, and trying to work out where they will fit in. Sadly, the best ideas come while I'm driving or otherwise unable to write them down....

My friend and I always complain to each other about how our best ideas occur in either the shower or the bath. Again, both places that are not conducive to writing the idea down. I also have a bad habit of coming up with awesome dialogue while having a late night phone conversation with the aforementioned friend. Being in the cocoon and half asleep also decreases the likelihood that the awesomness makes it down on paper.

[hobgoblinn.livejournal.com]

Yeah-- going to sleep or waking up are other times when things seems to flow, but it's hard to make the effort to get it on paper, and later-- it's like Coleridge and Kubla Khan. Any interruption or failure to write down what the muse is giving you, and you lose it forever.

(Though I suspect, in Sam's case, he passed out from Opium overindulgence and slept through the rest of the poem. Man from Porlock, indeed.)