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Ficcy Stuff and a State of Affairs
Tuesday, 14 February 2006 10:18 pmIt is not at this point clear to me (nor to anyone else in the house) when the scanner will finally be reinstalled; that means it will probably be some time still until the next page of the comic will be posted. I’m really sorry about the delay. I am currently considering posting the pages at deviantART – this would be without the sketches and explanations, and I have the story scanned till page 10, so updates would be quicker there.
As to fanfic: I toy with the occasional plot bunny and have a few unfinished stories with some potential lingering on my hard drive, so it is possible that sooner or later a short story pops up. My baby is, of course, still the WIP of Doom. I have noticed that everybody and their sister is currently writing their novel-length versions of Snape’s (early) life, so I’m hardly original there. I also realise that I won’t be able to race them to the finish, so I have decided to take it easy. I really want this story to be something good (as in: the best I’ve yet written), and in order for that to work, I will need to devote a lot of time and energy to it. I can’t spare those at the moment, because of RL work and a comics deadline, so I have resigned myself to putting the WIP on hold until such a time as I can devote myself more fully to it.
But… To keep my hand in, I am writing other ficcy stuff, namely as a member of the Phoenix Rising RPG. I think it is![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sylvanawood who used to sport a great icon that said something to the effect that we should write fanfic in order to give Snape a future, and ever since HBP appeared I have felt the need to indeed write a story in which Snape doesn’t kick the bucket (possibly because I’m convinced that he will - *whine* - and because I feel that actually, even aside from fannish adoration, it would make more sense that he wouldn’t). Now, I gave my scenario quite some thought and established what I guessed Snape might do in the aftermath of HBP and the as yet unseen Book 7, but somehow I never hit on a suitable format in which the story might be written out and posted. Phoenix Rising offered me one.
Phoenix Rising’s overall story arc is not my idea, of course; it’s the game master’s. I also have nothing whatsoever to do with the writing of any other characters than Snape and my OCs. But as for the time being Snape’s story is only marginally interwoven with other playing characters’, I have quite a lot of freedom right now. Consequently, in the unlikely case that you are desperately looking for Sigune fanfic (imagine!) and too impatient to wait another year until the WIP of Doom is ready, I would refer you to Snape’s Phoenix Rising Livejournal. It features characters and backstory from my ‘published works’ (as Lockhart would say) like Brynhild and her family, and whole new ones from Snape’s new environment. It is in some ways ‘the Story Sigune Never Dared to Tell but now Perpetrates under the Cover of a Game’ :D – some of it goes a long way back. The entries build on one another and the journal can therefore be treated like a chaptered fic – which in itself is already a bit of an experiment for me, and hopefully will give me some expertise for the WIP.
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As to fanfic: I toy with the occasional plot bunny and have a few unfinished stories with some potential lingering on my hard drive, so it is possible that sooner or later a short story pops up. My baby is, of course, still the WIP of Doom. I have noticed that everybody and their sister is currently writing their novel-length versions of Snape’s (early) life, so I’m hardly original there. I also realise that I won’t be able to race them to the finish, so I have decided to take it easy. I really want this story to be something good (as in: the best I’ve yet written), and in order for that to work, I will need to devote a lot of time and energy to it. I can’t spare those at the moment, because of RL work and a comics deadline, so I have resigned myself to putting the WIP on hold until such a time as I can devote myself more fully to it.
But… To keep my hand in, I am writing other ficcy stuff, namely as a member of the Phoenix Rising RPG. I think it is
sylvanawood who used to sport a great icon that said something to the effect that we should write fanfic in order to give Snape a future, and ever since HBP appeared I have felt the need to indeed write a story in which Snape doesn’t kick the bucket (possibly because I’m convinced that he will - *whine* - and because I feel that actually, even aside from fannish adoration, it would make more sense that he wouldn’t). Now, I gave my scenario quite some thought and established what I guessed Snape might do in the aftermath of HBP and the as yet unseen Book 7, but somehow I never hit on a suitable format in which the story might be written out and posted. Phoenix Rising offered me one.Phoenix Rising’s overall story arc is not my idea, of course; it’s the game master’s. I also have nothing whatsoever to do with the writing of any other characters than Snape and my OCs. But as for the time being Snape’s story is only marginally interwoven with other playing characters’, I have quite a lot of freedom right now. Consequently, in the unlikely case that you are desperately looking for Sigune fanfic (imagine!) and too impatient to wait another year until the WIP of Doom is ready, I would refer you to Snape’s Phoenix Rising Livejournal. It features characters and backstory from my ‘published works’ (as Lockhart would say) like Brynhild and her family, and whole new ones from Snape’s new environment. It is in some ways ‘the Story Sigune Never Dared to Tell but now Perpetrates under the Cover of a Game’ :D – some of it goes a long way back. The entries build on one another and the journal can therefore be treated like a chaptered fic – which in itself is already a bit of an experiment for me, and hopefully will give me some expertise for the WIP.
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