It's interesting, how much I seem drawn to the older man/ younger woman dynamic (Giles/ Buffy, Snape/Hermione), and how much those stories affect even how I write my own decidedly gen genfic. I've had several reviewers ask about this, and I have to be honest-- I can't write romance and that's probably just as well. (I've skated around the edges with the Charity Burbage backstory in Lost Boys-- and that whole Ch13 I was really uncomfortable letting Wee Hob listen through as a beta for just that reason. That and how dark it turned in general. But he already knows there are scary bad people in the world and I softened the worst of it when I read it for him.)
I think what I was most interested in here was how Snape would handle parental responsibility and relationships-- not only towards the young son of his old enemy and older friend, but also toward an adult daughter figure. So no, I don't think I'm going quite there. Have you read Laurie King's "The Beekeeper's Apprentice," though? I probably will, whether I mean to or not, leave open the possibility of something more developing later, just as that book ends with them in an equal partnership but not yet a romantic one.
But to pull that off, I will have to do a lot more thinking about these characters and what's going on with them.
My betas have real lives (and I don't make them fix all my stupid grammar and the like, though I admit I send stuff to them before it's quite ready and get their reactions to things that might not be working and then do a much better job on rewrite. I don't usually impose and have them read a second pass, though.) Where was I going with that? Oh-- just it may be a while before the next bit of In Loco is posted.
Don't suppose you're a Buffy fan? My Summer of Giles posting day is July 28th, and I'll start posting my 06 Nano Novel. (And promptly leave the civilized world for the backwaters of my Texas hometown. I think my mom still has working rotary phones hardwired into the walls of the house. Internet? Whut's that?)
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Date: 2008-06-27 02:43 am (UTC)I think what I was most interested in here was how Snape would handle parental responsibility and relationships-- not only towards the young son of his old enemy and older friend, but also toward an adult daughter figure. So no, I don't think I'm going quite there. Have you read Laurie King's "The Beekeeper's Apprentice," though? I probably will, whether I mean to or not, leave open the possibility of something more developing later, just as that book ends with them in an equal partnership but not yet a romantic one.
But to pull that off, I will have to do a lot more thinking about these characters and what's going on with them.
My betas have real lives (and I don't make them fix all my stupid grammar and the like, though I admit I send stuff to them before it's quite ready and get their reactions to things that might not be working and then do a much better job on rewrite. I don't usually impose and have them read a second pass, though.) Where was I going with that? Oh-- just it may be a while before the next bit of In Loco is posted.
Don't suppose you're a Buffy fan? My Summer of Giles posting day is July 28th, and I'll start posting my 06 Nano Novel. (And promptly leave the civilized world for the backwaters of my Texas hometown. I think my mom still has working rotary phones hardwired into the walls of the house. Internet? Whut's that?)
Cheers, and thanks for the comment.