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.

[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.

[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.